August 13, 2001
Full Coverage for the People

Full Coverage for the People, a design for a transparent, collaborative, and somewhat more democratic way of organizing news coverage, loosely based on Yahoo's Full Coverage. Comments welcome and encouraged.

Which little boy will grow up to be President?

Nader on Online Voting Records. "New technology is beholden to old politics and power structures, just like the old technology." That's worth repeating.

Filegate.gov, an old Wired article about why Congress still doesn't put most of their documents online.

The Congressional Accountability Project is still working on it, apparently.

Capitalizing on the Anti-Capitalist Movement.

www.lightpollution.it

posted by dru in politicsoftech
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by Kendall

Or as I put it recently:

Technology...reflects institutional and social structures far more

often than it changes them. Technology is only possible within the context of the social and political practices that create, maintain, and extend it. And the social and political practices that constitute social institutions are the limits within which technology can mean or be anything at all.

My take on online voting -- The Folly of Internet Voting, or Democracy and Disenfranchisement.

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