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Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA
Tim O'Reilly As the debate about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) rages on from Silicon Valley to Washington DC, a number of the technology industry’s most influential leaders have come out against...
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Big tech, Obama and the politics of privacy
The White House announced major privacy initiatives this week amidst a growing hubbub over how technology companies use consumers’ personal data. The news sheds light on both the privacy debate and on...
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How Twitter lets politicians route around the media
The rise of social media has had a number of disruptive effects on the traditional media industry, but one of the most powerful aspects of this “democratization of distribution” is how it allows the...
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Where the Tea Party is right, and wrong, about tech policy
It must be difficult to be a member of the Tea Party, having to balance the desire for more rights for everyone — including corporations — with less government to enforce those rights. A recent...
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Is Twitter good or bad for political journalism?
With the Republican National Convention getting underway in Florida this week, the volume of political coverage is likely to explode, and therefore so is the volume of posts to Twitter and other social...
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Fact-checking politics: Why we need “open journalism” more than ever
There’s been a lot of sound and fury over Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s speech at the party’s national convention on Wednesday, and how it was riddled with inaccuracies, or what some...
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Why can’t we just admit that journalists are human?
Should journalists be allowed to have opinions? If so, when and where — and how — should they be allowed to express them? Such questions have been a thorn in the side of the traditional media industry...
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Could we use open-source tools to improve politics?
The philosophy behind open-source software has been used to create an operating system and a pretty powerful crowdsourced encyclopedia, among other things, so could adopting that same approach change...
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The Twitter spin room: What happens when politics goes real-time
According to Twitter, the presidential debate in Colorado on Wednesday night generated a maelstrom of more than 10 million messages in less than two hours, making it the most tweeted-about event in...
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Liberal Democrats ‘like’ more on the social web than conservative Republicans
Even before President Obama’s debate performance this week rallied the left, it seems that liberal Democrats found more to “like” online than their conservative counterparts. A new study on social...
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Where to watch the first 2012 presidential debate live online
This Wednesday, President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney are going to face off in the first of three televised presidential debates. The two candidates will meet at the University of Denver to...
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Why the trick to analyzing Twitter data is more data
With election season in full swing and presidential debates kicking off on Wednesday, there’s a lot of talk about the role social media — particularly Twitter — will play in gauging how well candidates...
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Big data politics: Why you can’t outrun campaigns by avoiding the TV
If you think you can avoid the ceaseless barrage of political ads by merely avoiding the television at all costs and keeping your telephone silenced, think again. Politicians and their campaign...
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Where to watch the 2012 second presidential debate live online
It will be two out of three for President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney Tuesday night as they meet in Hempstead, New York, for the second of three presidential debates. This debate will be...
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Where to watch the 2012 third presidential debate live online
This is it: President Obama and Governor Romney will meet Monday to face off the third and final presidential debate before the election next month. This time around, it will be all about foreign...
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Data doesn’t play politics — and most of it suggests Obama will win
Updated: Data doesn’t really care who will be elected as the next U.S. president. And of all the data points that political scientists and others trying to predict the election care about, most of them...
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Why Nate Silver and others predicted the election perfectly
This chart by Rafa Irizarry at Simply Statistics pretty much sums up the amount of egg on the faces of anyone who questioned Nate Silver’s prediction that President Obama had a greater than 90 percent...
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Want to solve the phone-locking problem? Then let’s get rid of device subsidies
The issue of phone unlocking has become the cause célèbre of Washington lately. The White House has gotten behind a consumer petition to overturn the recent ban on the practice. Not one, but three...
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Politics and personalization have more in common than you think
FOX News and Prismatic might have more in common than meets the eye. From politics to products, our innate biases affect the way we view the information with which we’re presented, which means anyone...
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Project Loon: Google’s biggest obstacle isn’t technology. It’s politics
The balloon-powered network known as Loon may be one of Google’s famed moon shots, but the biggest issues facing the project are grounded right here on Earth. This won’t just be a major technological...
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