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Clay Shirky: How Cellphones, Twitter, facebook Can Make History

Given yesterday, we were talking about how the Internet ought to be a human right, how lately twitter has been buzzing with Iranian elections and how Filipinos have been using Facebook and Twitter to get our point of view across, this tedtalk by Clay Shirky asks a very important question: “How can we best make [...]

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06.17.2009

Open Source Auditing Tool for Election Integrity on the Road to 2010?

This isn’t a commentary. I was reading Ars Technica (did I mention, Google Reader is your friend?) and ran across this article by Ryan Paul on Open Source Auditing Tool Boosts Election Integrity. He wrote:
Boulder County adopted ElectionAudits, an open source software program that implements a “risk-limiting” audit system modeled after the concepts described in Principles and [...]

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12.22.2008

A “crisis of modernity”

I read with interest hawaiianguy’s comment in MLQ3’s blog entry Numerology and politics.
MLQ3 cited Randy David’s view that the real issue is the “crisis of modernity” gripping our society; observing how Pinoy politicians now increasingly resort to voodoo and prayer as a means to ameliorate our society’s fortunes.
Mr. hawaiianguy provides a bit more clarity in [...]

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05.22.2008

2010: The Cyberspace Strategy

Via Aileen’s work blog, I downloaded the Social Media Tracker Wave.3 study by Universal McCann, and after digesting its results, I thought of how this would impact the political landscape come the 2010 elections.
Of course, I did have to take the numbers provided in the study with a grain of salt (especially since I am [...]

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05.16.2008
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