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GovTrack Insider: Uncover Daily Activities of the US Congress
Jifbox: a GIF photobooth for the web
One group dominates the second round of FCC net neutrality comments
Netflix bug accidentally creates amazing synopsis mashups
How Much Did Healthcare.gov Really Cost?
As to the merits, per se, of having some third party write the book: I'm doubtful. I followed wesm's development through blog posts, twitter updates, etc. Writing pandas forced him to consider a lot aspects of dealing with data in python, both deep and practical. In the process, I'm confident he became one of the foremost experts in not only his own software but in the current state of Data Analysis in Python. Who better to write this book?
perhaps not, but surely if I was to buy such an ad and pay per impression, I'd probably like to know what the impression/click ratio was. no doubt Yahoo advertises a low one to potential buyers...
Shazam for Political Ads (Sunlight Foundation)
Grassroots aerial maps using kites + cameras. (#opengov champions)
No, TC, That Research Does Not Suggest Online Voter Reg Could Reduce Turnout
"So if there was all this corporate rage over SOPA and PIPA why aren’t we seeing the same type of reaction when it comes to CISPA?
The short answer to this is because it doesn’t really change the way that they do business with the government and law enforcement agencies already, and contrary to what you would think companies like Facebook and Microsoft support CISPA.
It is important to realize that unless any requests for a person’s private information comes are part of a CISPA cybersecurity request companies aren’t ‘forced’ to share that information; but under CISPA when they do share that information they can no longer face any legal actions from anyone."
CISPA: Where’s The Outrage And The Anger That We Saw With SOPA?
Achewood's new E-Books: download, read, pay what you want
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/investigate...
...you know, it doesn't follow that making slaves unhappy will net more freedom.
Post-sqoot: "How to tell people they sound racist" s/rac/sex/g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdxeFcQtaU
This video is really, really worth watching. TLDR: Jay Smooth makes an analogy between race sensitivity and oral hygeine. "Not being racist" is more like brushing your teeth than like getting your tonsils out. Our (all of our) prejudices are strong and reinforced 99% of the time just by absorbing the majority culture that we live in. Cultivating sensitivity toward minority groups, then, is...
HOWEVER, a word to the wise: I've had a LOT of trouble saving and opening saved files. there's a few tickets open, but I haven't seen any progress. that's sortof a dealbreaker when it comes to doing professional work :/
Simply transparent: the "What We Know About You" report
http://www.popvox.com/blog/2011/06/20/new-popvox-privacy-tool/
Popvox has a great transparency tool to inform users about the data that they've made available simply be becoming members of the site. Now THAT'S something I want to demand of every site I register with.