While I certainly admire Google’s willingness to stand up to the man, it is important to note that confirming any fears that google is in league with big brother is the one thing that could truly ruin them. It’s no surprise they’re fighting against turning over search records, with all the controversy over the information they are sucking up about not just the internet but users as well, succumbing to a government request for information is basically making all those fears real.
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I imported all of the entires from my “Digital Governance Fluency Blog” that ran from September to December on Blogger. Check’m out in the “Floggist” category.
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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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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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