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The Politics of the RFC
Requests for Comments are the condition of possibility for Internet Politics and today is their 40th Birthday. So do read Stephen Crockers Editorial in the NYTimes. When the R.F.C.’s were born, there wasn’t a World Wide Web. Even by the … Continue reading
Jefferson’s Moose
If you are looking for a semana santa (easter week) reading, I urge you to order David Post‘s, In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace (Oxford University Press 2009). It is an amazingly beautiful written reflection … Continue reading
World 2.0 in Garmisch
tomorrow afternoon we are starting with the world 2.0 course, where we (Erfurt School of Public Policy and Moscow Higher School of Economics) are asking about the emerging/emergent political theories of web technologies… I will keep you posted.
Quick Travel Posting: Vienna Calling
am in Vienna for talks with friends in the interior ministry, the city, the environmental ministry and I am ever more persuaded that Vienna has the most effective municipal government/administration in the world – the question to the world is: … Continue reading
Security 2.0 – BBC doing a DDOS
If you liked our Security 2.0 Case (The Estonian-Russian Cyberwar of 2007), you might want to head over to BBC and watch them do a DDOS.
And Where is 115?
For all of us waiting for the German 115 project to take off, there is interesting news from NYC. As Nick Sbordone, spokesman for the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication said, 311 “is more a philosophy than a call … Continue reading
The Remix Culture Zeigen Show
I had planned not to write about Remix: Making Art and Culture Thrive in the Hybrid Economy (Lessig 2008) until it came out as creative commons licensed download (hypocrisy or just good business sense?), but today Larry Lessig posted an … Continue reading
“…it’s coming from facebook time”
Today, Mark Cuban posed the question “Where does tweet time come from?” and the clear favorite answer was…;) I spend far less time on Fbook as a result of my Twittering. I trade out of my home office and like … Continue reading
Learning from the Best
if the changes we are going through are as radical as we are assuming… we might have to freshen up our political philosophy skills… luckily, AcademicEarth is providing video lectures by the best… so just as an example, follow Steven … Continue reading
Open Government 101
Jerry Brito wrote a great primer into what we should expect of open government in the 21st century in 2007, Hack, Mash & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency, it is available at the SSRN: If government data is made available online … Continue reading
