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In this episode of Digital Citizen we wrap up the Governance Nuggets, David Totten reports on internet access to remote villages in Alaska, and we talk to Damien Pfister about blogging.
Music: The Digital Citizen by David Totten.
The Digital Citizen is a CC-derived and licensed composition. David’s thoughts on the music and on the Creative Commons can be found here.
DC News:
E-Voting: Diebold v Democracy
Piotr Konieczny on Tabbed Browsing
Wiki-Law Launches
Jonathan Lu on Blackberry Thumb
Gilmore v. Gonzoles
Censorship in China after Civil Unrest
Jonathan Lu on H.R.3997
Wikipedia Hoax
Thanks to Piotr for the links!
David Reports on Internet Access in Alaska
Damien Pfister talks about Blogs
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Learning to program has been one of the most difficult undertakings of my life. For some reason, I have just always had an incredibly hard time grasping the kind of abstraction we touch on in Chapter 10 of Snyder. Even now, they way I approach things (programming and otherwise) tends to be more of the try, try again variety. And trying to wrap my head around data structures (again, touched on in Chapter 10) has always been difficult. While I understand most of the basic stuff, I have never, ever gotten very comfortable with recursion. I understand what it does and how it does it- I just don’t really know when its a useful tool.
But, this kind of understanding is important. Even working on web pages and blogs- while a site like blogger is fine for classwork and the like, if one wants to build a site that looks good and is easily navigable, one has to know more than basic html- the digital-citizen site, for example, runs on the scripting language PHP, and many of the plugins and tools used for its “theme” are written in PHP and javascript. Over the holiday break I plan on doing a major revamp of the Digital Citizen website- making it look a little more professional and giving people access to tools they can use to help out. Doing this will have me diving into a language i’m not very familiar with and trying to use it to arrive at something unique and useful. We shall see.
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In episode two of Digital Citizen we feature more DC news as well as “Governance Nuggets”- news and commentary by students from the Digital Governance course at the University of Pittsburgh. Then we move on to Dr. Stuart Shulman and his recent trip to Kazakhstan and his E-Rulemaking Research.
DC News:
Massachusetts pulls back on Open Document:
Jason Cohen on Corbis
Sony Debacle Continues
Salvatore Moschella on Digital Dumping
SBC Punishes New Orleans over Municipal Wireless Internet Access
Eva Wright
E911 Off the Hook
Patty on Evangelical Blogging
More trouble for the Wikipedia
Joohyun on Podcasting and citizen media.
ICANN
Space Mountain Rants on Copyrighted Culture
Stuart Shulman
Shulman & E-Rulemaking
One story we didn’t get to mention this week was the use of Machinima to create political films- in this case a movie about the Paris Riots using a video game called “The Movies.” Check it out!
Episode 3 will be up next week.
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Utah Senatorial candidate running a wiki.
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The Wikipedia has taken quite a beating this past two weeks. Here’s an article that finally talks about why it will survive, instead of just condemning it as a failure.
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A collection of movies that have fallen into the public domain, downloadable through bittorrent!
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Democracy 2.0 is a Wikilaw experiment that hypothesizes that a wide range of individuals, not just politicians and special interest groups, can contribute to the creation of our nation’s laws.
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