Did you ever run across a meme that tied together disparate pieces of
your life? This is the first one I've ever found that works for me.
What this says to me is: There are commons in our societies. Their...
What's wrong with accountability?06/30/2004 01:04 PM Frankly, I never felt comfortable with being held accountable, and not
just because I am a cowardly slacker.... ...More at Worthwhile Mag...
In the physical world we rely on eyewitnesses and increasingly,
especially in Britain, on cameras. In the virtual world, according to
Dan Geer, we're now approaching a critical fork in the road: "To the
left, we surveil people. To the right, we surveil data. I'm arguing
for data-level file-tracking because if I have to surveil either
people or data, I think it's highly important that we choose to
surveil the data, not the people. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
In this column I mention an audio interview with Dan Geer. It's full
of unique insights. Listen, for example, to this clip (2 min, mp3), on the value of
cross-disciplinary knowledge. Here's part of it:
...
I'm a week behind on extracurricular reading, so forgive the delay
in drawing attention to this often-hilarious essay on ghostwriting by
Joe Queenan in last week's NYTimes book review.
The whole thing is worth reading, but here are a couple of nuggets
for the IP-minded:
[I]n recent times a cloud has begun to hang over the
deliciously vaporous world of ghostwriting. This is because greater
transparency about the collaborative process has inadvertently led to
greater confusion. Things started to take a bad turn when the
basketball legend Charles Barkley complained that he had been
misquoted in his own autobiography. This gave rise to a niggling
suspicion in some quarters that ghostwriters were churning out books
with only minimal input from their nominal authors. Shocking! . .
.
And on Newt Gingrich's shameless (and stylistically criminal)
ghostwriting:
I do not think I am being overcritical by saying that such
prose lacks the epic grandeur of a Tolstoy or a Norman Mailer. But
what is particularly irksome for the reviewer is that he has no way of
knowing who is to blame for these hideous passages. Newt Gingrich is
still a powerful voice in the American political community and still
young enough to run again for high public office. If William R.
Forstchen is the one responsible for the lunkheaded plot and
comic-book dialogue of this infantile novel or the more recent
''Gettysburg'' (''He thought of Elizabeth, sweet Elizabeth, wondering
what she would say of him if he ever confessed his terror''), that is
one thing. But if Gingrich himself is the one firing off these
fusillades of malarkey, it could be a portent of some very unnerving
stump speeches in years to come.
Kerry Says He Would Demand Accountability (AP)
Kerry Says He Would Demand Accountability (AP)05/06/2004 02:35 PM AP - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday if he
were president he would not be "the last to know what is going on in
my command," a criticism of the Bush administration's handling of
reports of abuse of prisoners held by U.S. forces in Iraq.
Google Maps and Accountability
Google Maps and Accountability04/07/2005 05:50 PM
The ease of use of Google Maps' new satellite imagery
integration is going to have some interesting implications.
Accountability and Culture in a Loosely Coupled World
Accountability and Culture in a Loosely Coupled World02/01/2005 09:07 PM Rebecca talks about finding offensive content on a Technorati tag
aggregation page. Besides the usual tension between free speech and
community standards (to which I think she's found a useful balance),
the thing that strikes me is how well this demonstrates some of the
unpredictable effects that come from having...
Government must demand project accountability - report
India's electronic voting faces lawsuit over accountability
India's electronic voting faces lawsuit over accountability05/02/2004 03:22 PM With a billion voters all depending on one proprietary system, the
risks of tampering are high. With his recently filed lawsuit, a
professor attempts to restore confidence in electronic voting.
Disturbed by Abuse Photos, Senators Call for Accountability
The creator of open source operating system Linux , Linus Torvalds
,
asked Linux developers to acknowledge a
Developer's Certificate of Origin (DCO) . The DCO
specifies the authorship of each contribution to the Linux code, while
making clear the coverage of intellectual property under the General
Public License (
GPL ).
This increased
formalization of a major open source project is possibly in
response to the series of lawsuits filed by the SCO
Group , which turn on claimed ambiguities in the licensing and
authorship structures of Linux. Many observers do not
see the DCO as establishing total legal immunity.
User experience accountability: Assessing your impact on business results
Increased Demand for Accountability in Nonprofits Solved with a Strategic Planning System
Increased Demand for Accountability in Nonprofits Solved with a Strategic Planning System06/17/2005 04:40 PM As Sarbanes-Oxley impacts the nonprofit sector, MyNonprofitPlan helps
executive directors stay accountable by putting a strategic planning
system at their finger tips to communicate performance and strategic
direction. For the first time, executive directors can increase
organizational transparency without increasing their work load. [PRWEB
Jun 17, 2005]
Glowan Consulting Launches New "Leadership for All" Program to Build Initiative, Collaboration and Accountability Skills
Liberty? What liberty?04/16/2005 09:57 AM America has need of idealism and courage, because we have essential
work at home - the unfinished work of American freedom. In a world
moving toward liberty, we are determined to show the meaning and
promise of liberty" -George W Bush Just what liberties do we
Americans have that other countries do not have?
Religious Liberty
Religious Liberty05/13/2004 09:25 PM The Alliance Defense Fund, which describes itself as a legal alliance
of more than 700 attorneys defending religious liberty, announced
Thursday it has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Jose and Mayor
Ron Gonzales in an effort to...
NY Times:
Supreme Court Affirms Detainees' Right to Use Courts. The
Supreme Court ruled today that people being held by the United States
as enemy combatants can challenge their detention in American courts
— the court's most important statement in decades on the balance
between personal liberties and national security.
There's still a scary deference to the executive branch
in some of the language in these rulings. But there's also something
to cheer: the president can't decide what the law is.
The court punted on the Padilla case. He's an American citizen who was
grabbed on U.S. soil and slammed indefinitely into a military brig.
The court said his lawyer raised the case in the wrong court. Sheesh.
But there's overall good news. As one justice wrote, the "War on
Terror" does not give the president "a blank check" in defining the
rights -- or lack of rights -- the Constitution grants.
NY Times: Court
Hears Case on U.S. Detainees. The Bush administration yielded
no ground before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in arguing that the
open-ended military detention of United States citizens as enemy
combatants, without criminal charges or access to lawyers, was
justified both in law and as policy.
The
administration's claim here -- that the president and his aides alone
can decide to lock an American citizen away forever is a claim to
their right, and that of future presidents', to be tyrants.
It's incredible that this is even thinkable. But our collective fear
from the Sept. 11 attacks, and Congress' absolute spinelessness in
defending the Constitution it swore to uphold, has given Bush what he
so plainly wants: the opportunity to be the president who asserts, and
gets, absolute power.
Absolute power is always abused. Always. This kind of
absolute power -- making leaders the prosecutor, judge and jury -- is
the lynchpin of tyranny.
If the court upholds this abuse of liberty, it will be assisting in a
crime: If this assault on the Constitution succeeds -- if the
Constitution has truly become meaningless on something so fundamental
-- then we will have destroyed America to save it.
The stakes are that high.
NOTE: Slate's
coverage of the court arguments yesterday has a smart additional
feature. There are inserts linking to the audio of specific
exchanges.
"Chasing Liberty"01/10/2004 03:54 AM Mandy Moore plays a presidential daughter itching for freedom. Why
won't Hollywood give the talented Moore a little bit of her own?
SourceID Liberty 2.0 Beta
SourceID Liberty 2.0 Beta07/01/2004 11:54 AM A Java implementation of the Liberty Alliance ID-FF 1.2 protocols.
SourceID Liberty 2.0 Alpha06/17/2004 02:45 PM A Java implementation of the Liberty Alliance ID-FF 1.2 protocols.
Practicing the Liberty He Preaches
Practicing the Liberty He Preaches04/28/2004 07:02 PM Lawrence Lessig, who wants to make intellectual property more widely
available, is offering his new book online at no charge.
CA joins the Liberty Alliance
CA joins the Liberty Alliance07/20/2004 01:00 PM Computer Associates follows Intel and Oracle in signing up to the
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