http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger Let's just see what happens Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:50:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yochai Benkler, the project lead on the Berkman Center's analytic survey of how broadband works around the world [pdf] responds to critics and questioners. http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/11/06/yochai-benkler-responds-to-critics-of-the-broadband-survey/ The Supreme Court of Arizona has ruled that the metadata included in electronic doucments is covered by the public records law. If the state has to make the document available, it also has to make the metadata available. The court reasoned analogically: "It would be illogical, and contrary to the policy ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/11/05/ariziona-rules-metadata-is-part-of-public-documents/ I'm in an airport, beginning a day of transit that seems to bend time in a Time Zonish way, so I haven't had time to actually read this Pew Internet report, but my understanding is that it challenges the assumption that mobiles, texting, the Internet, and all the rest make ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/11/05/pew-internet-staring-at-screens-makes-us-more-social/ I'm at IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) in Milan. The Europe-wide president of IAB, Alain Heureux, is giving a talk that includes a section on the self-regulatory mechanisms IAB is proposing as it watches Brussels begin to formulate policy. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/11/04/iab-alain-heureux-on-regulating-marketing/ Some folks, including Nadia El-Imam, have put together an Open Declaration on Public Services 2.0 that is going to be presented alongside the declaration of the European ministers at the Malmö ministerial conference in about 3 weeks. They're looking for signatures. http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/11/04/open-declaration-on-e-government/ The Google Operating System blog (independent of Google) has a useful post explaining why it's a bad idea to send large attachments, even though Google now lets you attach files up to 25MB in size. The reasons the post gives have to do with how inefficient attachments are for the ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/11/03/why-sending-large-attachments-sucks-but-well-keep-doing-it-anyway/ I have to say I enjoyed this message from Bill, urging his fellow Mainers to vote against Question 1, which would undo the state's gay marriage law. I'm in agreement with Bill's opinions, but I also admired the writing and rhetoric. http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/11/02/bill-in-maine-wants-us-to-vote-no-on-one/ From Personal Democracy Forum: WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software, as ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/11/01/whitehouse-goes-drupal/ Joe Trippi has an important post about to understand the upcoming election results: The electorate's Us vs. Them has changed from Our Party vs. Their Party to The Electorate vs. Anyone in Power: Voters are increasingly seeing themselves as "us" and both parties in Washington as "them." They are not going ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/10/31/trippi-the-new-them/ A judge has ruled that email is not protected under the Fourth Amendment. This sounds wrong to me (although I am very much not a lawyer), but what I really enjoy are the many many arguments by analogy as slashdotters try to figure out what email is like, so we ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/10/30/argument-by-analogy/