Tag: open government
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I also think that even with today’s technology, it would be difficult for a police officer to make some type of claim that the recording done by a typical hand-held device was somehow an improper “surreptitious” or secret recording when it is done in the manner recommended above. Poynter Online – Al’s Morning Meeting Poynter…
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Poynter Online – Al’s Morning Meeting Poynter weighs in on the eavesdropping via video controversy laid out nicely in Gizmodo’s Are Cameras the New Guns?. Chicago’s Chris Drew, artist and activist is challenging Illinois’ current eavesdropping law. You can read about his ongoing fight for his and all of our rights, at his site c-drew.com/blog/ This issue is very important for journalists, citizen journalists and every citizen.
I also think that even with today’s technology, it would be difficult for a police officer to make some type of claim that the recording done by a typical hand-held device was somehow an improper “surreptitious” or secret recording when it is done in the manner recommended above.
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Sunlight Labs: Blog – Adobe is Bad for Open Government
The fact is, sticking to open, standards based technologies like HTML, XML, JSON and others are far more important and useful in getting your information out to the public than the proprietary formats of Adobe. Here’s a hint– if the data format has an ® by its name, it probably isn’t great for transparency or…
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NTIA seeks volunteers to review broadband applications – Network World
Image via Wikipedia The NTIA, in a document released this week, asks for people to apply to become volunteer reviewers of the broadband grants. The NTIA’s broadband grant program is part of $7.2 billion that the U.S. Congress approved for broadband in a huge economic stimulus package approved earlier this year. Small Business UC for…
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Harnessing Technology for Civic Projects
The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System – O’Reilly Radar. And of course you can blend these data flows and come up with hybrids all you like. DIYcity’s SickCity, for example, is basically a C2C tool in its present, basic 1.0 incarnation – it detects instances of residents in your city saying they’re sick,…
Barbara K Iverson 