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Let My P2P Go: Uncle Sam Eyes File Sharing Again
Written by Jolie O'Dell / November 19, 2009 8:00 PM / 4 Comments

In the wake of a leak of an international trade agreement on online file-sharing and copyright violation, U.S.

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Examining the Political Twittersphere: Obama, Schwarzenegger and Stephanopoulos
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 7, 2009 11:00 AM / 1 Comments

During the 2008 presidential campaign, politicians and reporters quickly discovered the power of Twitter. These days, Twitter has

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Apple Rejects "Politically Charged" iPhone App
Written by Sarah Perez / September 29, 2009 7:42 AM / 18 Comments

A 22-year-old iPhone application developer by the name of Red Daly is claiming that Apple rejected his new

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Social Media is Slowly Changing the Demographics of Political Engagement
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 1, 2009 12:03 PM / 8 Comments

Traditionally, political participation has always been highly correlated with income and education. According to a new report (PDF),

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Censorship or Copyright Infringement? Flickr Takes Down "Obama as Joker" Photo
Written by Sarah Perez / August 19, 2009 6:43 AM / 36 Comments

Los Angeles residents recently began seeing a new sort of Obama poster plastered across their city. Instead of

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Iran's Mobile SMS Up & Running; Will Twitter Start to Lose the Green Hues?
Written by Jolie O'Dell / July 2, 2009 3:08 PM / 8 Comments

According to a report today from the BBC, Iranians are able to text message one another for the

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U.S. Government Reaches Out to the Social Web for Collaboration, But Are Users Reaching Back?
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 30, 2009 12:12 AM / 14 Comments

In the quest to open government processes to citizens, collaboration and participation were identified as explicit goals in

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Recovery.gov's Data Transparency Called "Significant Failure" by Watchdog Group
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 25, 2009 10:42 AM / 5 Comments

The US Office of Management and Budget issued new reporting guidelines this week for recipients of the $787

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Twitter Postpones Maintenance as Iran Furor Builds
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 15, 2009 9:35 PM / 13 Comments

The Twitter firehose is glutted with retweets, hashtags, and information of every possible bias and contradition surrounding one

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Is Internet Access a Fundamental Human Right? France's High Court Says Yes
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 11, 2009 9:29 AM / 40 Comments

France's highest court, the Constitutional Council, ruled that access to the internet is a "fundamental human right" this

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Data.gov Now Live; Looks Nice But Short on Data
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 21, 2009 9:02 AM / 8 Comments

The long awaited catalog of public data from the US government launched this morning at Data.gov. Developers, watchdogs

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US Senate Votes Now Available in XML - Bring on The Mashups!
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 5, 2009 10:43 AM / 15 Comments

Today is an important day in the history of politics and technology - the US Senate voting record

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US State Dept. Sends Twitter to Iraq
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 22, 2009 9:16 AM / 7 Comments

Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey, is visiting Iraq to bring the microblogging service into government and civil society there.

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Iranian Blogger Reported Dead in Prison
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 18, 2009 8:41 PM / 23 Comments

Omid Reza Misayafi, one of a number of Iranian bloggers arrested for "insulting" the government and religious authorities

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ShovelWatch Uses Crowdsourcing to Track the Stimulus Bill
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 2, 2009 6:01 PM / 3 Comments

Few topics are galvanizing the American public right now like the stimulus bill and how the stimulus money

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5 Online Political Resources Everyone Should Know About
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 16, 2009 11:28 AM / 11 Comments

It's Presidents Day here in the United States but for most people it's just a day off work.

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Presentation: Barack Obama's Internet Strategy
Written by Richard MacManus / February 9, 2009 10:47 PM / 9 Comments

We've written a lot about how Barack Obama's Internet strategy was a significant reason for his success last

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Facebook and CNN: The Power of the Social Web Revealed
Written by Sarah Perez / January 20, 2009 10:29 AM / 20 Comments

Today Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. As several million people

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Capitol Words: What Your Congress Person Really Talks About
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 19, 2008 12:06 PM / 2 Comments

The Sunlight Foundation's mashup site Capitol Words relaunched this week and now offers a very handy way to

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Facebook Shuts Down "Pro-Genocide" Group
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 11, 2008 10:50 AM / 44 Comments

A fast-growing new group of Facebook users from Bosnia called on Facebook to shut down another group on

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