The DNC recently found a flaw in the Republican online organizing tool GOP.com (which I wrote about before) that exposed private information about individuals via their “precinct organizer” interface. The National Review published the press release.
I’m bothered a little that this security flaw existed. Whenever a site collects personal information it should take […]
In undergrad at U of M, I took a course from Ian Robinson that became part of the Labor & Global Change Program. Over Spring Break, we visited Nogales, Mexico, toured a Ford factory, a maquila and stayed in the “colonias” (i.e., shantytowns) that most workers live in near the border.
With our new clarity […]
My buddy George won the first Pizzigati Prize For Software in the Public Interest for his work on the CitizenSpeak project. (I suspected he may have won when, some time after the prize contenders were announced, he began asking me questions about exactly how he ended up working on it.) He was up […]
I neglected to mention that, in addition to eating barbecue, I tagged along with a walking tour of our neighborhood on my birthday. I didn’t take notes or take pictures but it helped shore up a lot of my theories and hypotheses about the neighborhood (more on that later). The most topical issue […]
I’m not the biggest fan of Hillary Clinton but she just did make a politically brilliant move (via Sat. She’s introduced a bill to increase the minimum wage and minimum wage increases to congressional pay increases. Why is this smart:
Minimum wage increases are popular even in red states (Florida passed a minimum wage […]
I’m finally starting to wade into the land of all things Drupal/CiviCRM at “the job” and also for some side projects (one which I hope we’ll have ready soon!). For those not in the know, Drupal is a platform on which to build community and other highly interactive web sites (blogs, portals, directories, forums, […]
Rob posted this recently and it merits more attention. Verbatim:
University of Maryland professor Peter Levine has some interesting things to say about the liberal blogosphere in response to bloggers Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga’s new book, Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics:
I should also note that 2006 is […]
A friend of mine passed on a rather disturbing link to a Republican blogger ranting about the evils of Linux. I can’t tell if this is satire (think overdone Colbert Report) or if this woman really is this nuts. (Post summary: Linux is a foreign, communist, unamerican attempt to destroy the US […]
ATF rids Univ. of ninja threat
ATF agents are always on alert for anything suspicious — including ninjas.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm agents, on campus Tuesday for Project Safe Neighborhoods training, detained a “suspicious individual” near the Georgia Center, University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said.
Jeremiah Ransom, a sophomore from Macon, was leaving a Wesley Foundation pirate vs. […]
Recently coworker Noel and I were invited over to the lower Manhattan digs of PubSub. They’ve built a pretty sweet system for following topics of interest as they are mentioned on the web. Rather than trying to be Google or Technorati (indexing and storing the entire web/blogosphere), they’re taking a differnet approach to […]
