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Digg's pretty established these days as a way of crowd-sourcing newsgathering. How about applying the same idea to politics ? Lots of s...

Power2010 aims to highlight egregious cases of MPs damaging democracy and blocking its reform. For their first case, they have picked Tony ...

Richard Stallman has always regarded free software as about freedom, and hence inherently political. And so it's no surprise that many ...

One of the central challenges of the modern age is how we can use all the shiny technology we have developed to make democracy work better -...

One sphere where openness is generally acknowledged as indispensable is politics: true democracy can never be opaque. In the past, providin...

Andy Updegrove's Standards Blog is one of my favourites, because he clearly knows what he is talking about, and this means his analyses...

...all attempts at burying politically embarrassing information are shallow : A time-honored Washington practice of trying to extinguish, pr...

Today I received an email from a service I signed up to recently. I'd forgotten about it because it dealt with the apparently yawn-wort...

A couple of weeks back I wrote a piece for Linux Journal suggesting that top coders might start using some of their increasing influence o...