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Washington Post, Sarah Palin Pardons Turkey. http://tinyurl.com/5bumj4
Politweets — ... Can't go wrong with "mussels larger than a mobile phone." :) 2:05 PM Nov 19th from twitterrific After bad Thai food, went looking to get the taste out of my mouth. Try this for refreshment. http://tinyurl.com/6zozoh 2:04 PM Nov 19th from twitterrific Interesting transition infomercial on how they work. http://xrl.us/oxt83 1:56 PM Nov 19th from twitterrific Older » RSS Name carlmalamud Location Sebastopol, CA Web http://public.res... Bio Government Manumitter 16 Following 6 ...

It's Not Over: We are "the change we need."
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... Seeing Kevin Werbach and Susan Crawford as the FCC transition team leads was an awesome wakeup call. Hey, these aren't Washington insiders or telecom lobbyists! They are our peeps from the internet community! Whether inside or out, the tech community can continue to lead by example. I'm imagining legions of bureaucrats saying "it can't be done" countered by demonstration projects that show that "yes we can." I'm remembering Carl Malamud's heroic work putting SEC data online in 1993. The project started with activism by ...

Resource.org's suggestions for Change.gov
Boing Boing — ... The Rural Internetification Administration. Repurposing the Amateur Radio League, modifying spectrum policy, and injecting capital into rural coops can bring high-speed broadband to 98% of rural Americans just as the Rural Electrification Administration did in the last century. Needless to say, all ideas and instantiations of those ideas are in the public domain. No patents, no trademarks, no service marks, no copyright. Just some ideas for change. 5 Suggestions For Change (Thanks, Carl!) ...

Google donates $34k to Congress, Congress does ad for YouTube
Boing Boing — ... decide for yourself if this stinks: 1. The Official Congressional YouTube Ad 2. My remix of that ad, replacing YouTube with yahoo, yowza, yippee. Just try and takedown this public domain data! 3. My report 2 years ago to Pelosi about their webcasts. Not like we haven't been waiting patiently in line! 4. The Federal Election Commission report by Google's PAC. Public.Resource.Org doesn't have a PAC. (Thanks, Carl!)

EFF to judge: Let's webcast the RIAA's lawsuit
Boing Boing — ... View Network, to put the Nifong disbarment trial on-line (link). All that video is hi-res with no restrictions on re-use. Media Access Project, Free Press, and the California First Amendment Coalition, and even attorney Ben Sheffner have joined this call to open up the court proceedings. EFF does such great work ... we're really proud to support their excellent brief. EFF Leads Call of Support for Live Webcast of RIAA Hearing (Thanks, Carl! ...

The Legal Education Commons
Berkman Center Newsfeed — ... licenses. The Legal Education Commons makes over 700,000 court documents, drawn from public.resource.org , available to legal educators. In addition, CALI has donated 300 original illustrations from its popular online tutorials, “CALI Lessons,” making the Commons the first and largest pool of free images designed specifically for use in legal education. Access the Legal Education Commons at ...

Half a terabyte of public domain video, free for the downloading
Boing Boing — ... documentaries of wilderness areas. For a small studio or a student filmmaker with a half-terabyte free, we thought you might appreciate the convenience of simply downloading the whole thing as NTSC MPEG-2 files all at one time and sorting it out later. We include the metadata files from the Internet Archive, and our servers support http, ftp, and rsync. If you just just want to browse the video, you can use our depots on YouTube, the Internet Archive, or our own NTIS agency page. But, if you'd rather slurp the source for your video library, have ...

An Effort to Upgrade a Court Archive System to Free and Easy
NYT > Technology — Americans have grown accustomed to finding just about anything they want online fast, and free. But for those searching for federal court decisions, briefs and other legal papers, there is no Google ...

RFP: design open federal regulations
Boing Boing — ... pipe?" and "is this life vest safe?" This effort builds on last year's "Code City," which released public safety codes (building, fire, plumbing, boiler, elevator, electrical) for public use. These public safety codes, also incorporated by reference, are the counterpart at the state and local level of the current effort to open up federal law to make it open and transparent for all. Codes is law. RFP: Enhanced Code of Federal Regulations (Thanks, Carl!) ...

Public Resource's FedFlix digitizing hundreds of hours of gov video archives at no expense to tax payer
Boing Boing — ... (link) 2. Internet Archive (link) 3. bulk.resource.org, available for FTP and rsync as well as http. (link) Did I mention this whole thing was no cost to the government? And, no cost to anybody ... this is an unfunded project and we did it for about $350 in hardware costs. My only question is why the government isn't cranking out 11.5 hours of new video per day. Enjoy. YouTube - PublicResourceOrg's Channel (Thanks, Carl!) ...

A Manifesto on Health Data Rights
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... P.S. If you wonder whether a non-binding manifesto like this can have an impact on the deliberations of government, you have only to look at another similar statement, issued at the end of 2007 by a group of open data activists at a meeting organized by Carl Malamud of public.resource.org at O'Reilly, with support from Google, Yahoo! and the ...

Public Resource demands the source code to America's operating system
Boing Boing — ... money with Sunlight Foundation and other groups and forked over $17,000 for the bulk feed of the Code of Federal Regulations. Well, the product is defective and we want our money back. These 3 actions taken together are trying to establish a basic principle: the laws of our society need to be readily available for all to read, not locked behind a cash register. The past practice of parceling out the public domain to private parties is illegal and needs to stop. Open Source America's Operating System (Thanks, Carl!) ...

Free the Patents and Laws, Activist Tells Feds
Wired: Epicenter — ... government data? Well, try being a government agency on the receiving end of that in an administration that has pledged allegiance to transparency and openness. And that’s exactly where nation’s pre-eminent open-government data fighter Carl Malamud of public.resource.org fame has got the Patent and Trademark Office and the National Archives and Records Administration, which controls, among other things, the Federal Register System. Malamud, who runs Resource.org,   is petitioning them to make their bulk data free to all comers, so that ...

US gov't drops price of journals from $17k to $0, adds XML to Federal Register!
Boing Boing — ... And, believe it or not, GPO has been using Ed Felten's shop at Princeton (coming Monday morning) and Public.Resource.Org (our re-design page from Point.B Studio) as alpha testers to see what we can do with the XML, and we're both definitely happy customers. It was fun working with the GPO and Federal Register teams. This is a clueful product, the price is just right, and it is an important first step in making America's operating system open source. Government Printing Office (Thanks, Carl!) ...

Ladyada gets EFF Pioneer Award!
MAKE Magazine — ... Congrats also to fellow-recipients Carl Malamud (of public.resource.org) and Harri Hursti, creator of the "Hursti hack," which uncovered vulnerabilities in Diebold optical scan voting machines. ...

Oregon once again claims that law is copyrighted
Boing Boing — ... General for his consideration. He seems like a good guy, and we've asked him to issue an official Attorney General Opinion on when the state may assert copyright, covering not only his Public Meeting manual, but also the Secretary of State's Administrative Rules, the Fire Marshall's Fire Code, and the Building Codes. We have quite a few of those documents already on line, so there is an actual issue on the table and we're hoping he'll do the research and make a ruling. The Oregon Question (Thanks, Carl!) ...

Oregon Attorney General releases "copyrighted" Public Meeting Manual, will hold hearings on whether Oregon law is copyrighted
Boing Boing — ... John Kroger today released that manual, appointed a special Deputy Counsel to handle these kinds of transparency issues, and announced a set of hearings about the issues involved. This is good news! It does not yet address the most fundamental issues, such as whether the state may assert copyright over the law, but it is a formal set of hearings that will examine the issue, which we're happily going to participate in. Some background on the Oregon issue is available at the Public.Resource.Org Oregon.Gov page and you should read the Attorney General's ...