Category: social computing
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Petitions are soooooo 20th century
I set up a petition here, and I’ll be sending the comments onward to John Podesta and Michael Strautmanis of the Obama transition team. — Matt Stoller, Larry Summers At Treasury: A Fox in the Henhouse, OpenLeft The first two replies to Matt’s post were JoelN: Is it still possible to start new ‘MyBO’ groups?…
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Media release: Voter Suppression Wiki workshop highlights last-minute opportunities for reducing voter suppression
Cyberspace — A diverse group of bloggers, community organizers, media professionals, technologists, and voting rights activists have issued a report with several last-minute recommendations to reduce voter suppression in the upcoming US Election. Some of the most significant opportunities involve increasing awareness of resources like the non-partisan Election Protection hotlines at 1-866-OUR-VOTE/1-888-VE-Y-VOTA, engaging the tens…
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Update on the Workshop on Last-minute strategies for reducing voter suppression
Update: w00t, w00t, Voter Suppression Wiki is mentioned in Noam Cohen’s Casting a Ballot, and a Wary Eye in the New York Times — and I’m quoted (“The interesting challenge — the story in progress — is how do we coordinate our effortsâ€)!  Mom will be proud 🙂 We’re roughly at the midpoint of the…
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Radio, radio. You’re gonna hear me on your radio. Tonight!
On Saturday, Jon hosted a major organizing conference call that became a strategy session for countering voter suppression nationwide. And, so, in a bit of marvelously self-reflexive irony, with Jon’s help, we’ll be using that same approach to make this hour of our show into a kind of national town meeting of the air, by…
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Help, please, with test data for the Twitter Vote Report (updated with logo)
Executive summary Please take a minute to help by providing test data for an election monitoring project! Details Momentum on the Twitter Vote Report continues to build — Nancy Scola and Allison Fine’s excellent update from Monday already looks out of date, and as the steadily-growing partners list implies, we’re making excellent progress towards the…
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“e-Deceptive Campaign Practices”
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)’s Technology and Democracy 2.0 report on “e-Deceptive campaign practices” is getting released on Monday, along with a parallel report from Common Cause and Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights covering the legal and policy issues. Contributors include computer security legends like Peter Neumann (of Bell Labs, SRI and comp.risks fame)…
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Election protection: Techville and Reality City
Welcome to those who have gotten here via my appearance on Meet the Bloggers! The Voter Suppression Wiki is a non-partisan hub of information and action around efforts to suppress votes in the 2008 U.S. elections. For more information, please see our strategy and talking points, Baratunde Thurston’s launch post on Jack and Jill Politics,…
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Voter Suppression Wiki: Introductions, Help Wanted, and Strategy
Cross-posted on Oxdown Gazette and Pam’s House Blend The Voter Suppression Wiki is a non-partisan hub of information and action around efforts to suppress votes in the 2008 U.S. elections. For more information, please see our strategy and talking points, Baratunde Thurston’s launch post on Jack and Jill Politics, and my series of posts on…
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Oxdown Gazette: some initial reactions
cross-posted on Oxdown Gazette The conversation in the blogosphere is — I sincerely hope — about to change. — Jane Hamsher, And the Big Announcement Is…, Firedoglake, July 2008 I’ve spent a bunch of time at Firedoglake’s Oxdown Gazette this last week, regularly checking the home page and recommended stories, commenting here and there, as…
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Voter suppression: how to do better at getting the word out?
One area that we think the Voter Suppression Wiki can potentially add a lot of value is getting the word out more rapidly: about important updates like polling location changes or extended polling times, and to alert the community about deceptive campaign practices. Today, it can often take over a week for information to make…
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danah boyd joins Microsoft Research — computer science *is* a social science
Guess who has a post-dissertation job? [Yes, that implies I’m actually going to finish this *#$@! dissertation.] ::bounce:: In January, I will be joining the newly minted Microsoft Research New England in Boston, MA. w00000t!!!!! I couldn’t be more ecstatic. — danah boyd, I will be joining Microsoft Research in January, apophenia, September 2008 “Breaking…
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Voter suppression wiki: what to discuss on Meet the Bloggers?
I’m currently scheduled to be on a Meet the Bloggers‘ discussion of voting rights on October 17, along with Brad Friedman of THE BRAD BLOG and presumably at least one other guest. It’s a great opportunity to get the word out about the Voter Suppression Wiki, and in particular to enlist other bloggers in helping…
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Berkman Center researcher publishes 1700 students’ Facebook data: “We did not consult w/ privacy experts on how to do this, but we did think long and hard ….”
I think I’ll let others tell the story for me … September 25: In collaboration with Harvard sociology graduate students Kevin Lewis and Marco Gonzalez, and with UCLA professor Andreas Wimmer and Harvard professor Nicholas Christakis, Berkman Fellow Jason Kaufman has made available a first wave of Facebook.com data through the Dataverse Network Project. The…
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A One Million Strong Facebook moneybomb!
I posted an earlier draft of this on October 4. The Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack) Facebook group is in the midst of its October moneybomb to scare McCain fundraising drive, with a goal of raising $15K by October 15th to push the group’s total to $40K. It’s an ambitious goal; while the…
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Ask Facebook to de-friend Ted Ullyot!
cross-posted at the Oxdown Gazette The L.A. Times’ Tech blog* is reporting that Ted Ullyot — a former chief of staff to former AG Alberto Gonzales, a former AOL in-house lawyer and a former Kirkland & Ellis partner — is moving to San Fran to take the top legal job at Facebook. — Facebook Sends…
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A One Million Strong Facebook moneybomb (DRAFT)
revised and updated version to be published during the week of 10/6 It seems to me that it’s a pretty interesting story that One Million Strong now has fundraising potential on roughly the same level as well-known progressive blogs OpenLeft and myDD — especially in an election where there’s been so much focus on Obama…
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No blank check for Wall Street: It’s not over
originally posted on Pam’s House Blend Debbie Stone: Do you think it’s over? Mike Tobacco: Yeah, sure.– the final lines from Killer Klowns from Outer Space, right before it becomes clear that no, it’s not over Ah well. After Monday’s brief shining moment of resistance from the House, the politics of business as usual asserted…
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No blank check for Wall Street: announcing “an open letter to Congress”
No blank check for Wall Street is a group of people demanding accountability for Wall Street for its role in the 2008 financial crisis. We welcome those who oppose a bailout as well as those support a bailout with accountability.  Please see our website for more. Our Facebook page and #nobailout on twitter are the…
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No blank check for Wall Street: Send a message to Congress!
The $700 billion dollar bailout legislation will result in a huge expense to taxpayers — with all the benefits going to corporations and large stockholders. Most economists think that this plan will fail to address the underlying issues that caused the crisis. And there are many other issues for concern in the bill, such as…
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No blank check to Wall Street: Call to action!
No blank check for Wall Street is a multi-partisan group of people demanding accountability for Wall Street for its role in the 2008 financial crisis. We welcome those who oppose a bailout as well as those support a bailout with accountability.  Please see our website for more. Our Facebook feed is the best way to…