Today Nancy Scola introduced me to a delightfully quirky character named Carl Malamud in her June 13, 2010 article entitled “Washinton’s IT Guy” in The American Prospect. So impressed was I by her description that I visited Mr. Malamud’s website Public.Resource.Org where I found a link to this video. In this amusing and informative presentation, [...]
Category Archives: Politics
Online activism
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
This is from an email I sent to a couple of friends this morning about the tendency to forward messages we receive advocating activism to resolve some problem we see as important. DP> Sorry, XXXX. This one’s older than the other one. See DP> http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp. PP> I guess I want to do something about high [...]
Purple Mountain Majesty
Saturday, April 28, 2007
You’ll recognize the title of this piece as a line from America the Beautiful. Yet that isn’t the America I see on this April morning in 2007. America today, if you believe the media, is divided into Red and Blue states. But if you combine red and blue, you get purple. In my opinion, America [...]
Learn about Net Neutrality
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Spend the 10 minutes and 24 seconds it takes to watch this video for an excellent overview of what the issues are surrounding Net Neutrality. (Thanks to Paul Stamatiou for the link to the video.)