John Edwards announces presidential campaign in Second Life
Today on the Second Life News Network there is the news that at least one of the presidential candidates at…
Category: Policymaking
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Fifty Years of Europe
Bruce Sterling points to a nice article in the Guardian about the latest round of enlargement of the European Union,…
Italy’s attempt to censor over 500 websites
In the recesses of the 2006 budget approved by the Italian parliament (pdf) a curious element was found to be…
Dissent Is Not Un-American
Geof Stone is guest-blogging on Lessig.org about dissent, and how politicized media or strong-arming politics can suppress it, or try…
Largest peaceful social experiment
The New York Times covers the signing ceremony of the European Constitution. 450 million people joined voluntarily to create the…
Memetics experiments around the elections
The enblogment by Lessig of Kerry is becoming a full blown applied memetics experiment, in both establishing the power of…
A disenfranchised view of past feelings
I remember when Gorbachev would talk about a connected world around 1987. It felt new, as his policies, and his…
Italy’s more than half corrupt?
Ok. That sounds pretty provocative. But how should one interpret the results of the latest Corruption Perceptions Index published by…
Charming side of Italian anarchy as seen from the outside
We were in my car with Joi Ito tonight driving to have a few drinks after his panel at IBTS…