Power in the olden days was constituted by those who had the ability to muster means to make people comply to their wishes. The ability to hold life and death in one’s hands, i.e. military might, was power. The acquisition of military power, in turn, meant being able to organise society in ways so as [...]
Clay Shirky: How Cellphones, Twitter, facebook Can Make History
June 17, 2009 By 15 Comments
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 [...]
Open Source Auditing Tool for Election Integrity on the Road to 2010?
December 22, 2008 By 2 Comments
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 [...]
A “crisis of modernity”
May 22, 2008 By 24 Comments
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 [...]
2010: The Cyberspace Strategy
May 16, 2008 By 2 Comments
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 [...]
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