Archives for: January 2006
Jan
30
Dean [AnnaLee Saxenian] gave the first annual *State of the School* address today for SIMS (soon to be called the UC Berkeley School of Information... or I-School).
I was able to record her talk and you find the audio and slides here:
* [`saxenia… more »
Jan
26
best... intro... to an e-voting article... ever:
> With terms like ES&S and TSX, discussions at the state Capitol about new-fangled voting machines can sound like Star Wars movie fans talking about droids. And just as technology often failed to s… more »
Jan
25
GWU law students turn backs on Gonzalez during speech
secrecy, chilling effects, privacy, politics, photos, policy, legal, education> *When you're a law student, they tell you if say that if you can't argue the law, argue the facts. They also tell you if you can't argue the facts, argue the law. If you can't argue either, apparently, the solution is to go on a public relations offen… more »
Jan
22
Commonwealth Club Panel: Should Books Be Free Online?
copyright, chilling effects, SIMS, berkeley, San Francisco, policy, legalMake a reservation for this [Commonwealth Club](http://www.commonwealthclub.org/) panel... (via the one and only ass-kicking [LawGeek](http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2006/01/kickass_panel_o.html))
> [INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY | THURSDAY JANUARY 26](h… more »
Jan
20
from [Ed](http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/) ([*"Google Video and Privacy"*](http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=956)):
> Privacy is for Google what security is for Microsoft. At some point Microsoft realized that a chain of security disasters was on… more »
Jan
18
If you have a particularly good story about frustrations dealing with a locked cell phone, consider helping folks at Stanford Law file for a DMCA exemption for unlocking cell phones:
> The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society is collec… more »
Jan
18
So, astute readers have noticed that I've started to include Google AdSense ads at the bottom of each post. However, even with the recent metafilter hit, I've had no one click on the ads.
Do people click on Google ads? (Obviously, a few people wil… more »
Jan
16
***PLEASE NOTE THAT THE AUDIO FILES ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE.***
Al Gore supposedly gave a great speech today... in case you're fed up with CSPAN's uber-crappy streaming service, here's a link to an mp3 (and smaller mp4) that I cleaned up (original mp… more »
Jan
16
Just received in an email:
> The new draft and web resources are available at . We welcome your comments on the wording of the new version at
I'll include the draft text below. One of the things I was hoping is compatibility with the Affero GPL… more »
Jan
15
Connecticut totally screws up their voting systems procurement
elections, vendors, news, wtf?, politics, problems, research, policy, legalThe State of Connecticut is now claiming that a certain law never existed. I told them about this over a year ago!
Here's the skinny (from [*"Supposed state requirement for voting machines never existed"*](http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/conn… more »
Jan
12
How would I add an application to a file type's available launch services (the "Open With" menu when you right-click (ctrl-click) a file)? For example, if I want TXT files to list "Microsoft Excel" in the "Open With" menu, how would I do this? more »
Jan
10
This is fascinating ([*"Digging The Madness of Crowds"*](http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/01/digging_the_madness_of_crowds_1.html) by [nat](http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/) at [O'Reilly Radar](http://radar.oreilly.com/)):
> Earlier today, O'Reill… more »
Jan
10
So, if you listen to any Bay Area hip-hop, you'd have noticed a unique song in heavy rotation. This song, "Go Dumb", is largely vocals only and is sung by J. Valentine of City Boyz (with a rap at the end by [Champ Bailey]). What makes it even better i… more »
Jan
07
We may get all-mail voting here in Alameda county (Berkeley and Oakland). From Ian Hoffman ([*"Registrar keen on idea of all-mail voting for county"*](http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_3380329)):
> In the chaotic marketplace for voting e… more »
Jan
07
via [Scot](http://birdhouse.org/blog/archives/2006/01/uc_extension_blogging_class.php):
> UC Extension Blogging Class
> Local blog news -- Birdhouse user Tom Abate writes:
> UC Extension will offer a one-day seminar for aspiring bloggers on Sat… more »
Jan
05
E-voting source code NOT to be opened in Wisconsin
elections, reform, copyright, news, open source, policy, legal**UPDATE [2006-01-05T12:56:32]:** Unfortunately, all the hub-ub was about a draft of the bill as introduced, [the version as passed into law](http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/acts/05Act92.pdf) has none of the disclosure of code language and instea… more »
Jan
02
Man, one thing that makes my life a tad bit more difficult is pasting copied text into Word documents and then having Word render the text in some font other than what the document font is set at.
One way around this is a kludge: you can hit Edit -… more »
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