General shout-out to the Sunlight Foundation
The Sunlight Foundation is committed to exactly the kind of transparency principles that journalism traditionally serves. Their projects include: compiling a list of people seeking tax breaks on imports from Congress; building a completely indexed and cross-referenced depository of federal documents; running the numbers on sources of Congressional wealth; opening bills to online, public review.
“The [...]
Tweet-Crime?
We’re starting to see more domestic coverage of l’affaire Elliot Madison, the self-described political anarchist who has been charged with using Twitter to apprise protesters of police movements at the recent G20 Summit.
Our own Laura DeNardis weighed in via this Reuters story, highlighting the double standard between Twitter activism in Iran and Pittsburgh.
Is there [...]
Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, on newsgathering
I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, yesterday. I took the opportunity to ask him about Wikipedia’s relationship to legacy journalism, and his thoughts about the decrease in newsgathering, and what systems might take its place.
Because of its system of cross-references to “reliable” outside sources, Wikipedia depends on [...]
Yale ISP at Internet:Critical Event
Today marks the first day of Internet Research 10.0 – Internet: Critical, the 10th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), an international association for scholars in any discipline in the field of Internet studies. Today’s keynote address features Siva Vaidhyanathan discussing The Googlization of Everything and the Theology of Google.
This year’s [...]
Some ways to get involved with the Yale ISP
Join the Yale ISP mailing list.
Participate in our Tuesday speaker series, every Tuesday at 4:10 p.m. in Room 121 of Yale Law School.
Oct. 13: Mark Pittman from Bloomberg will discuss FOIA, open government, and media access.
Oct. 27: Gigi Sohn from Public Knowledge.
Talk with us on Twitter @yaleisp and on Facebook @Information-Society-Project.
DHS Databases & Speech
Comparative Case Studies of Radical Rhetoric, according to the government’s own description, “is a research effort funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Directorate of Science and Technology (S&T), Human Factors/Behavioral Sciences Division (HFD). The goal of the research project is to determine whether various characteristics of the rhetoric expressed by groups are related [...]
Intelligence Fusion Centers
We are very interested in Fusion Centers.
For now, let’s just leave it at that.
Some current information: there evidently are 72 state-based intelligence fusion centers, and Janet Napolitano just announced that DHS is creating a new office to support them.
Things this office will do, according to Matthew Harwood at Security Management, include the following:
“It will survey [...]
FOIA Bootcamp
Several of our classmates have asked us for the video from our highly successful FOIA Bootcamp held a few weeks ago — so we figured we might as well broadcast it to the world! Our three hour session gives an overview of both federal and CT state freedom of information laws. Feel free to [...]
Of FOIA & Free Access
It’s a point of no contention to folks here at LAMP that court documents are and should be legally required to be in the public domain. But public domain currently means paying 8 cents a page to read docs on PACER — the federal judiciary’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records database. This law student [...]
Jimmy Wales talk: this Wednesday at 6pm
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder and de facto leader of Wikipedia, is coming to speak at Yale on October 7 at 6pm. The talk will take place at SSS 114, which is at the corner of Grove and Prospect St in New Haven. The ISP is pleased to sponsor this talk with the Yale Students for [...]
Podcast on sharing scientific data
ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden was interviewed on September 30 by Jon Udell in his Interviews with Innovators Series on ITConversations about Reproducibility in Computational Science. Listen to the podcast here.
Gourmet RIP
Gourmet magazine, founded in 1940, is to close. Another signal of the current plight of legacy media.
A reminder
Some of you may remember that a few weeks ago, Judge Jeffrey White (N.D. Cal) ordered the government to release additional records about telecommunications industry lobbying in the lead-up to the enactment of the immunity laws releasing them from liability for facilitating the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program. Judge White’s deadline for the release of [...]
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