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InternetNZ: Censorware: Phone call

(As a new councillor for InternetNZ, I will be pitching into the issues of copyright and censorship. I’ll blog all my InternetNZ work to keep folks following along at home up with the play. …

Gov 2.0 Summit: Aneesh Chopra

Aneesh Chopra is the US Federal CTO. The conversation on stage between him and Tim O’Reilly began with an explanation of the role of the CTO vs that of the CIO (Vivek Kundra). The impression I …

Gov 2.0 Summit: Clay Johnson

The second Clay, hairier and less well-dressed. Head of Sunlight Labs, part of the Sunlight Foundation. I was at his house on Monday night for a turkey cook-off between him and Chris DiBona of Google. …

Gov 2.0 Summit: Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky, clad in the world’s shiniest shirt, was introduced as “The Oscar Wilde of the Internet” but that was doing him an injustice for Clay is a fantastic combination of …

Gov 2.0 Summit: Tom Steinberg

Tom Steinberg is my pioneer hero of open government. His group, MySociety, is a British non-profit building things on the web. His things work: fix rate for FixMyStreet is about 50%. That means 10s of …

Nine to Noon: 12 August 2009

I went through two telephones in this Colorado house and neither of them could hold onto the call. Now that’s frustrating! Here’s what I was going to speak about: I will talk about recent …

Nine to Noon: 16 July 2009

Listen to my 16 July 2009 appearance on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon show. I spoke about Science Foo Camp which was at the Google campus last weekend: discovering new science from huge amounts of …

Nine to Noon: 2 July 2009

Listen to my 2 July 2009 appearance on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon show. I spoke about emotional robots, Kiwi web awards, and a new US government transparency web site. Below are my notes. I …

Nine to Noon: 18 June 2009

Listen to my 18 June 2009 appearance on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon show. I spoke about online dating scams, Twitter’s role in the Iranian election protests, and would have spoken …

Nine to Noon: 4 June 2009

Listen to my 4 June 2009 appearance on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon show. I spoke about national security and social unrest on the Internets. Links: Guatemala The murdered lawyer National …