Category: berkeley
Feb
20
Some of you close to me will know that I spent a brief period of unpleasantness trying to do good work on Wikipedia when I was in graduate school. I haven't made serious substantive edits to Wikipedia since that time.
The "high-water mark" of that pe… more »
Jul
26
[Yale Braunstein](http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~bigyale/), a professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information, passed away last night.
Yale was a significant influence in reinforcing my interests in information and technology policy. In his Inf… more »
Dec
15
Open Government Workshop at CITP
open source, secrecy, privacy, politics, berkeley, friends, research, policy, usability, legal, princetonHere at Princeton's CITP, we have a healthy interest in issues of open government and government transparency. With the release last week of the [Open Government Directive] by the Obama Administration, our normally gloomy winter may prove to be conside… more »
Nov
16
CA to Provide Precinct-Level Data
elections, standards, open source, berkeley, friends, research, policy, usabilityToday, UC Berkeley Professors Philip Stark, Jasjeet Sekhon and Henry Brady, along with me, sent the California Secretary of State a brief comment about her [effort to provide precinct-level elections data](http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2009-specia… more »
Sep
28
ACCURATE comments on VVSG v1.1
elections, certification/testing, reform, standards, berkeley, friends, research, policy, usability*(Cross-posted on the ACCURATE blog: [ACCURATE Comment on VVSG v1.1](http://accurate-voting.org/2009/09/28/accurate-comment-on-vvsg-v1-1/))*
A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE) submitted public comme… more »