I’m still alive; I’ve just been immersed in my new job. I’m learning tons of good stuff and am getting close to the point where I can take a deep breath, have a drink, and make time to do a little blogging. There is some amazing work going on at SUNY and I can’t wait [...]
The Austin Chronicle has a fairly lengthy piece on e-voting in general and Hart’s machines in particular. If the article is presenting the situation accurately (and I have no reason to doubt that it is) then it looks like Hart InterCivic may be one of the good guys.
There’s some good stuff about e-voting machine design [...]
Open Access News points out that the Open Archives Initiative is seeking public comment on their specification for conveying copyright metadata on Open Access content. Such a specification is critical to the aforementioned goal of assembling course packs out of Open Access materials.
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addthis_title = ‘Creative+Commons+Licensing+as+an+Affordance’;
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I sent an email yesterday to Hart InterCivic with the same tone and some of the same words that I used in my rant yesterday. I did so hoping that I would get a reply; I don’t think it’s fair to attack somebody publicly without giving them a chance to respond. And within hours, I [...]
Wired is running a deeply disturbing story on problems with electronic voting machines. I won’t run through the litany of problems here, but I do want to point out a particularly heinous quote from one of the manufacturers:
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addthis_title = ‘E-Voting+Machines+and+Arrogance’;
addthis_pub [...]
