Archives for: October 2008
Oct
31
The iSchool's [Geoff Nunberg](http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/) was asked recently by the SF Chronicle what he thought of the presidential candidates' reading lists ([*"Local literati rate candidates' reading lists"*](http://www.sfgate.com/c… more »
Oct
31
Oct
30
San Mateo. 'Nuff said.
> How is San Mateo County using new media?
> Starting today, the San Mateo County Elections Office is using Twitter, a microblogging application, to try to educate first-time voters about the voting process, what to expe… more »
Oct
30
This is my variation of Cook's Illustrated "Almost No-knead Bread"... which, in turn, is a variation of Bittman's "No-knead Bread". I'm going to rebel and just call it Simple Bread. It's so easy, you can't frak it up... especially if you have all the… more »
Oct
29
*[cross-posted at the [OurVoteLive blog].]*
[OurVoteLive blog]: http://blog.ourvotelive.org/?p=95
Since I'm an expert in election technology, I'm going to focus my comments here over the coming week about those kinds of issues. I'll do a periodic… more »
Oct
25
*(Cross-posted to the [OurVoteLive blog].)*
[OurVoteLive blog]: http://blog.ourvotelive.org/?p=5
My name is Joseph Lorenzo Hall; I'm a postdoctoral researcher jointly affiliated with the UC Berkeley School of Information and the Princeton Center f… more »
Oct
19
To go with [my dough recipe] -- which I believe is close to perfect -- comes this sauce recipe. It's a combination of a fast-cooked red sauce and the uber-raw red sauce of [Peter Reinhart]. It's great when the sauce is reduced to where it just starts… more »
Oct
18
Oct
17
*[cross-posted to Freedom to Tinker]*
Yes, that is a title of a real, current legal case and controversy.
(And, no, the links in this post are not spam... mostly gambling news sites seem to be reporting on this.)
The Governor of Kentucky, throu… more »
Oct
11
California Issues Emergency Election Audit Regulations
elections, reform, standards, litigation, friends, research, policy, legal*(cross-posted to [Freedom to Tinker](http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/node/6246/edit))*
The Office of the California Secretary of State has issued a set of proposed emergency regulations for post-election manual tallying of paper election records.… more »
Oct
03
Dissertation Now Available
system, elections, certification/testing, accessibility, reform, vendors, standards, copyright, open source, secrecy, privacy, berkeley, litigation, research, policy, usability, legal, education, iSchoolYesterday, I filed my dissertation and got [my sucker] (Berkeley gives you a tasty See's Cafe Latte hard candy sucker when you graduate).
My dissertation is about a very poignant topic: policy mechanisms for making electronic voting systems more tran… more »