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A Crowd-Sourced National Communications Census
Great post from Carl Malamud on national broadband strategy. I’d be curious to see if such a Census would result in too much self-selected data from folks with good broadband access.
For example, if one of the main problems in closing the digital divide is that we’re unable to identify areas with inadequate coverage, then how would those citizens be able to chime in on a crowd-sourced endeavor?
“ The Associated Press reported Tuesday night that a widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several American government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cybercrime. ”
Cyberattacks Hit U.S. and South Korean Web Sites
“We see attacks on federal networks every day, and measures in place have minimized the impact to federal websites.” - Amy Kudwa from DHS
Matthew Broderick movie or real life? Real life.
thereifixedit.com
Q: How would I describe this site?
A: Occam’s Razor— if Occam shaved with a butter knife tied to a hockey stick with duct tape.
“If you want to understand this country and its people and what it means to be optimistic and complex and tragic and wrong and courageous, you need to go to his home in Virginia. Monticello.”
Maira Kalman, you’re pretty fantastic.
Time Wastes Too Fast - And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog - NYTimes.com
Internet + Iran
“A conversation about the Internet’s role in the coverage of the Iranian elections.”
Great discussion hosted by Charlie Rose (so professional) featuring friend and former co-worker Nico Pitney (blogger extraordinaire), Facebook friend and Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly (kelly2010.com), and one of my nerd-crushes Jonathan Zittrain (intellectual giant).
Vegas paper gets subpoena to ID online commenters
A Nevada newspaper says it has been served a federal grand jury subpoena seeking information about readers who posted comments on the paper’s Web site.
Thinking out loud… Newspapers can have anonymous sources, but you cannot comment on those anonymous sources anonymously?
The comments are written under pseudonyms. Along with the real names of people who posted comments, the subpoena asks the newspaper for the writers’ gender, birth date, physical address, telephone number, Internet service provider, IP address and credit card numbers.
Q: What was Publius’ credit card number?
A: No. 10
