July 04, 2003
Illegal video
Here are some cool video snippets of "illegal art" -- part of the Illegal Art exhibit that just opened in San Francisco.
Spreading the blog gospel
Guardian UK: Bloggers in America are aiming to spark a political revolution that will be delivered by the web. Excerpt:
It's Thursday evening, in a stuffy conference room at the Harvard law school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and weblogging champion Dave Winer is holding court.This is a corner of America famous for the Boston tea party, which ignited America's war of independence. And this little group of students and weblogging enthusiasts is talking about sparking what they claim will be another revolution - this time in politics and journalism, delivered by the power of the web.
The claim might sound far-fetched, but Winer is not one to mask his ambitions. "We will all live to see the day a weblogger becomes president," he tells the group, as he updates a weblog being projected on to a large screen. ...
MIT out to increase government awareness
The MIT Media Lab has launched a website it hopes will become the Google of info about the U.S. government.
Called Government Information Awareness, it allows citizens to submit intelligence about government-related issues, while maintaining their anonymity.
Here's an AP story on the project.
The deeply flawed Patriot Act II
Speaking of freedom and government oppression, here's an LA Chung column in today's San Jose Merc, Patriot Act II would strip more freedoms.
When in the Course of human events ...
The Boston Globe reprints the Declaration of Independence and adds this notation at the end:
Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.
Later: Larry Lessig points out the Globe may have run afoul of federal law.
European Online Journalism Awards winners named
War and peace dominate the winners of the 2003 European Online Journalism Awards.
