These days, I can’t say I have a burning passion for these topics, but without a doubt, given the season and my profession, both technoloy and politics are front and center on my RADAR. However, outside of silly DMCA issues and ‘trucks in tubes’ and the like, I never really tied the two together in [...]
OK, maybe that title isn’t completely fair. After all, I am a pinko liberal commie who will ALWAYS watch Trading Places through to the end when I stumble upon it while channel surfing…so I don’t hate Al. Perhaps it’s fairer to say Al Franken’s Marketing team sucks. Or, at the very least, likes to piss [...]
It’s not enough that the troops in Iraq are continually being asked to stay longer and be there more frequently, which means they spend more time away from their families and are more susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder.
Now the Pentagon has banned the troops from using sites like YouTube, MySpace, Photobucket, etc. due to “sapping [...]
2003: Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission tried – and was barred by a federal judge – from registering Vonage as a phone company.
2004: The FCC ruled that VOIP services could not be regulated by the states.
2005: Minnesota appeals
2007: Federal appeals court upheld FCCs decision
More Info:
MercuryNews.com, Techdirt.
Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., received a “Silver Mouse” award for having one of the 10 best websites in the Senate.
Read the full list of our elected finest’s web creations.
Your polling place may change every year. To be sure of where you should vote today (in Minnesota) and to see which candidates and what legislation will be on your ballot today, visit the Minnesota Election Poll Finder.
Steven Clift over at e-democracy has pulled together ‘Voter Voices’, a single page aggregator of a handful of pre-determined Minnesota Election tags.
If you’re covering the local election in your blog (this one included), podcast, or tagged something out there in the interweb that does – tag it appropriately, and it’ll automatically get pulled in.
Behold – [...]
In an election-year effort to protect our children from online predators, the U.S. House has approved 410-15 to ban from schools and libraries any website that meets the following criteria:
(i) is offered by a commercial entity;
(ii) permits registered users to create an on-line profile that includes detailed personal information;
(iii) permits registered users to create an [...]
We hear that all the time. Write to your elected officials! Let them know what you think!
Sadly, it seems that most politicians are about as tech-saavy as your average rock. So no matter how many emails you send, odds are that you’ll never hear back from them.
And that seems to be common knowlege in the [...]
I’m trying to avoid too many political posts, but watching Senator Bachman on TPT this weekend just got me riled up…
Republicans are upset that Sen. Dean Johnson lied. Fair enough.
Yet Senator Michelle Bachman has been lying for years with her ‘if we legalize gay marriage then we have to legalize beastiality and then the schools [...]