Civics
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Re Collections
@#$%^&*???? Search is so f’d What does the Internet Make of Us? is a piece I wrote in Medium that has had 2,500 views so far. But Google doesn’t find it. Not with the query Doc Searls “What does the Internet make of us?” Bing gives me (no shit) L”ago Baikal (Rússia) – Na Sibéria, o… Continue reading
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Questions of Law, not Just Politics
Go to HUD.gov, and you’ll get this: Go to USDA.gov, and you’ll get this: Seems to me these violate the Hatch Act, aka “An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities.” It was passed in 1939 and amended a couple of times since then. I am not a lawyer, but I know some, and I can… Continue reading
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Speaking as a Great Lakes Megacitizen
In Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, Alec MacGillis notes that the city at the center of a circle containing the largest population within a one-day drive is Dayton, Ohio. You can kinda see that in the map above, which I discovered through Brilliant Maps. They got it from the highly precient Defining US… Continue reading
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Lifting the Lid on Government Meetings
Twenty-sixth in the News Commons series. On the left is Tom Evslin, former CTO for Vermont. On the right is the golden dome atop Vermont’s capitol building. Underneath that dome, and in countless spaces in government bodies everywhere are meetings recorded in video. Reviewing or reporting on those meetings is a chore. Unless that is,… Continue reading