Category Archives: Political
10 Reasons Why City Governments Should Embrace Hackathons
Today is the last day to sign up for Reinvent NYC.GOV, the City’s first-ever hackathon. Civic-minded designers and developers who want to… Continue reading
“The Last True Hacker” Now Selling Signed Books
The Free Software Foundation is has launched second editions of two landmark publications by Richard Stallman, a.k.a. rms, “the last true … Continue reading
Browser Plugin Blocks Chinese Sites To Protest Artist Ai Weiwei’s Detainment
FAT Lab member Greg Leuch’s browser plugins have been mainly whimsical (abolishing mentions of folks like Justin Bieber and Charlie Sheen)… Continue reading
Tor Project Wins Award for Role in Middle East Revolutions
The Tor Project has been recognized by the Free Software Foundation for its role in the protests and revolutions around North Africa and the Mid… Continue reading
U.S. Government Open-Sources IT Dashboard to Help Cut Tech Costs
The United States government has made its IT Dashboard, a cost-cutting tool for federal transparency, freely available for anyone, especially ot… Continue reading
Dept. of State & 18 Other Governments Apply for Code for America
Code for America, the non-profit organization that creates government-changing apps for communities around the U.S., has received applications f… Continue reading
The Twitterverse Responds to Protests in Egypt [STATS]
The 662 people I follow on Twitter have been talking about little else besides the protests in Cairo Friday, which continue to escalate in intensity and violence. They are not alone. According to data pulled from real-time analytics tool Trendrr, 245,000 tweets containing “Egypt” were sent between midnight and 1:30 p.m. today, January 28. Thirty […] Continue reading