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Author: jon

w00t, w00t! Get FISA Right finishes #5 in Ideas for Change! Congratulations and great job all!

Jan 15, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

With a late rush, Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties squeaked into the #5 position in the change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition with 12285 votes! Alas, even though our other endorsement Bob Fertikâ€™s Appoint a Special Prosecutor for the Crimes of the Bush Administration picked up over…
Take action: Demand justice in the killing of Oscar Grant

Jan 13, 2009

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jon

in Uncategorized

From Color of Change’s site: On New Year’s Eve, Oscar Grant was shot execution-style by a transit police officer in Oakland, California. He was shot in the back while face-down on a subway platform, unarmed and posing no threat. Twelve days later–despite several videos showing what happened–the officer who killed Grant hasn’t been arrested, charged,…
Neocons’ worst nightmare: net movements intersecting in Ideas for Change in America

Jan 13, 2009

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jon

in political, social sciences, Tales from the Net

DREAM Activists and undocumented youth, the Stonewall 2.0 LGBTQ movement, Get FISA Right and civil libertarians, peace activists — together again for the first time, along with a demand for accountability for the last 8 years. Â Scary stuff.Â 🙂 Read on for more … and please digg it! It’s been surprising to me how…
Get FISA Right: should we endorse the special prosecutor idea?

Jan 13, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

There’s a voting thread up on the Get FISA Right blog. Current results: 18 yes, 1 no, 1 present (me, since I voted first, to avoid biasing people). Please weigh in!
Get FISA Right on Ideas for Change: only 72 hours left, five ways to help

Jan 12, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Voting in change.orgâ€™s Ideas for Change in America competition closes Thursday at 2 p.m. Pacific time. Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties has just fallen to #8, and a couple of the ideas close behind us like Pass the DREAM Act – Support Higher Education for All Students have…
Stonewall 2.0: Repeal DOMA!

Jan 10, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

The vibe under the sunshine at the corner of Castro and Market was positive and determined — a few hundred people maybe (I’m horrible at estimating), just the right size for the location.Â The immediate purpose was to organize for signature-gathering for the Open Letter to President Obama, with people fanning out afterwards to BART…
Apologies to DREAM Act advocates everywhere …

Jan 8, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, social sciences, Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

For the last six weeks of change.org’s Ideas for Change competition, I’ve been consistently impressed by the advocates for Pass the DREAM Act – Support Higher Education for All Students. The network of activists promoting the idea are giving the rest of us lessons in how to do it effectively.*Â And they and their supporters…
Vote early, promote often: Ideas for Change and Get FISA Right

Jan 5, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

The second round of voting in change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition kicked off today.Â Please vote for Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties — and help promote it! To vote, just click on the Vote here button on the widget on the right.Â (If your vote doesn’t…
Mutual guest-blogging 2.0: an idea for “Ideas for Change”?

Jan 3, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Last year I proposed an experiment on OpenLeft that involved “mutual guest-blogging“: four great bloggers who didn’t usually hang out there making front-page posts, and in return the OpenLeft front-pagers posting on the other blogs.Â The idea was to expose bloggers, readers, and commenters to new perspectives, and hopefully build some connections that could lead…
On to the second round of “Ideas for Change in America”!

Jan 2, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Also posted on the new Get FISA Right blog Happy new year! My idea Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties finished #2 in the Criminal Justice category of change.org/MySpace’s Ideas for Change in America competition, and so has advanced to the second round. We can revise the idea over…
Notes from underground, 2008/2009

Dec 31, 2008

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jon

in Personal, Tales from the Net

What a difference a year makes … the venue’s the same, another New Year’s Eve at SomArts in SF, and Liam’s playing again in the psytrance room.Â The rest of the world, and my frame of mind?Â Very different. I’ve been rereading a lot of my posts from the last year as we work on…
How’d that one get by QA: Z2K

Dec 31, 2008

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jon

in entertainment, Professional

Ya can’t make stuff like this up.Â From Ginny Mies at PC World: Picture this: You’re gearing up to create a killer playlist on your 30GB Zune for your annual New Year’s bash. All of a sudden, your Zune locks up, reboots itself, and freezes. What the heck is going on? Fox News picks up…
Once again Open for Questions: the pilot continues

Dec 29, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing

Round two of change.gov’s Open for Questions is up.Â Not a lot of details … last time, it was open for about three days, and there were brief answers to the top five questions, and a more detailed post and video on at least one topic (bailout transparency). Dan McSwain, on the change.gov blog, describes…
Ideas for Change in America: heading into the homestretch

Dec 23, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Executive summary things are still in flux in the change.org/MySpace Ideas for Change in America as we head into the last week of the first round civil liberties (six ideas), drug reform (five ideas), and education (five ideas) dominate the top 30 my idea, Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil…
“President Obama, please get FISA right” approved by Comcast

Dec 23, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Get FISA Right’s cable TV ad for the inauguration has been approved by Comcast — almost two weeks sooner than we had estimated!Â So now it’s time for grassroots fundraising to put it on the air – in Washington DC, and potentially all around the country. The ad addresses President Obama directly, congratulating him on…
Notes from underground: Geo-solstice

Dec 21, 2008

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jon

in Personal

Eight inches of snow in Seattle wreaked havoc with our travel plans but the good news is that I wound up getting to go to the Geo-solstice, at the Gingerbread House, geomagetic.tv’s party celebrating nine years with the Phoenix Family.Â Solid sets from Saturnia and Witchdokta and then a great one from Dr. Spook.Â Good…
Photos wanted for the Get FISA Right “inauguration ad”

Dec 17, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Were you one of the 23,000 Obama supporters who got together on my.barackobama.com last July to protest his stance on FISA?Â If so, we’d like to include your photo in a cable TV ad we’re working on with SaysMe.tv that we’ll be broadcasting in Washington DC for the inauguration.Â Here’s the script: Even though we…
Open for Questions at change.gov: What about privacy?

Dec 14, 2008

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jon

in political, privacy, social sciences

The Obama transition team’s Open for Questions pilot last week went extremely well for a first attempt.Â Combined with all the other promising things Micah Sifry discusses in Kudos to the Change.gov New Media Team, it seems to me that the Obama administration is on track for some effective ways of leveraging cognitive diversity and…
Turning the Page on FISA (guest-blogging on change.org)

Dec 13, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

I’ve got a post Turning the Page on FISA on change.org’s Criminal Justice blog today. Here’s the beginning: The coming year will present a unique opportunity for a broad-based activism campaign to restore our civil liberties and begin rolling back key pillars of the national surveillance state institutionalized by the Bush Administration and Congress over…
Get FISA Right: draft scripts up … feedback please!

Dec 11, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing

First-draft scripts for a few different options for our next round of ads are up on the wiki: Better watch those nuns — and their friends too Obama’s cell-phone records breached Congratulations. Now, get FISA right. Feedback welcome!Â Discussion thread here … jon PS: in case you missed it, I posted a Get FISA Right…