January 2012
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists →
By admin, wearelegionthedocumentary.com
“Leijonhufvud postulated that a macroeconomy will adapt well to small shocks but...”
– The Euro and the Resilience-Stability Tradeoff at Macroeconomic Resilience
Growing wealth widens distance between lawmakers... →
Fantastic examples of the corruption of congress.
December 2011
“Let’s set aside the absurdity that Google has been so abusive to both companies...”
– Dear Congress: It’s Not OK Not To Know How Search Engines Work, Either
“Whenever political leaders have presumed that their expertise and their...”
– The Mirage
“Efforts to weaken the party system gained popular support for reforms including...”
– The Mirage
“The lack of parties also severely harmed the operation of the Confederate...”
– The Mirage
“Szoka says that Smith appears to have been ensnared by “a trap that...”
– Meet SOPA author Lamar Smith, Hollywood’s favorite Republican | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
On Rep Smith – the House Judiciary Committee Chair who’s pushing SOPA through.
“Today, Republicans discomfited by political and media extremism bite their...”
– When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?
“We don’t pay you to think, we pay you to repeat.”
– When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?
“conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own...”
– When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?
“It is precisely these disaffected whites—especially those who didn’t go to...”
– When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?
A Republican calling white Republicans uneducated.
“Parties no longer compete to win elections by giving voters the policies voters...”
– “Low information voters” and the political press » Pressthink
“Republicans also won the fight to block light bulb efficiency regulations, mine...”
– Friday, December 16, 2011 | 24in60.com
How do Republicans not come off like the bad guys!?
The Political One Percent of the One Percent -... →
Just 1% of the 1% care enough about politics to donate substantial amounts of money. Those that do are ideologically driven. The last dozen plus campaign cycles have seen a stagnant trend of the proportion of wealthy donors to other sources of income.
This is not in the least bit surprising.
“Open journalism’s core principles are transparency, responsiveness,...”
– A discussion paper by Melanie Sill, Executive in Residence, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, December 2011 | The Case for Open Journalism Now
“Under a recent federal directive, the number of health-care reimbursement...”
– How to Overhaul Regulation - WSJ.com
“The formula is relatively simple: Goldman positions itself in the middle of a...”
– The Great American Bubble Machine | Politics News | Rolling Stone
“The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was...”
– The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
“The National Union of Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists...”
– The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
“In 1980 a Cal student paid $776 a year in tuition; in 2011 he pays $13,218....”
– California and Bust | Business | Vanity Fair
“Like a Yeats of the newspaper world, Starkman yearns for the restoration of a...”
– Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis « Clay Shirky
“If you started in 1794 and looked at our Congress, and compared it to the House...”
– Boston Review — Lawrence Lessig and David V. Johnson: Reclaiming the Republic
“Before 2008, the zeitgeist was deregulation, and Wall Street succeeded in...”
– Boston Review — Lawrence Lessig and David V. Johnson: Reclaiming the Republic
November 2011
Design is becoming a competitive advantage for... →
Congress considers anti-piracy bills that could... →
Alex Howard, oreilly.com
Sections Opposition from the legal, technical and VC community • Fundamental cybersecurity concerns about PROTECT IP • More lawmakers come out against SOPA • A Congressional hearing stacked against the Internet • Wikileaks, DNS and …
A very long, very detailed look at SOPA
“He answered, “You see Google acting in some ways as nation-states used to act,...”
– [Enter the Cyber-Dragon via Longreads]
“This onslaught of revelations was all the more extraordinary because American...”
– [Enter the Cyber-Dragon via Longreads]
“Even with the high-profile departures of Mike, Paul Carr, MG Siegler– and...”
– Crap ‘journalism’ at it’s best.
Reporting rumors.
Self-aggrandizing.
Not bothering to fact check something in her own organization!
The Rumors Are True. I Am Leaving TechCrunch. | TechCrunch
