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by cjoh 15y ago
And 15,000 faxes not read. Moreover 15,000 people thinking they did something useful, without having done anything useful at all. In my interviews with Congressional staff who actually work on correspondence desks, they laugh at people send
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This meme of "The Internet People are Organized and Powerful" is nuts and wrong. There would have been just as much hubbub had Wikipedia decided to run a national television advert during Modern Family asking people to call Congress. This w
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Apple makes good products but flawed arguments(prestowitz.foreignpolicy.com)
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Lobbying is protected by the constitution. Best of luck.
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A Healthy Information Diet: The Case for Conscious Consumption(theatlantic.com)
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The minute Barack Obama does something I really don't like, the minute I stop donating to his campaign. There, I said it! That statement is neither proof that I am a corrupt insider, nor is it sufficient evidence that I have control over Ba
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So then what's the problem?
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The effectiveness of advocacy is directly proportional to the amount of externally visible effort and sacrifice you put behind it.
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Can someone explain this a bit better to me? Let's say I write a book called "My Awesome Comments from HackerNews, Unabridged" (MACFHU) using Microsoft Word. And I send that to my publisher, retaining all rights to publish the book still. T
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How To Be a Better Activist(informationdiet.com)
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you know, I just spent all day here ( http://www.informationdiet.com/live ) talking to congressional staffers about the most effective way of communicating to Congress. The conclusion: the fax is the biggest waste of time that there is for
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by cjoh 15y ago
Should have this route randomly to constituent offices in the states so that it scales better once the hill exchange goes haywire (which it will)
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Learn to stop it tomorrow during the blackouts: http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/better-activism-day...
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SOPA not Dead. Hearings to Resume in Feb.(judiciary.house.gov)
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This doesn't teach anyone how to stop SOPA/PIPA. This teaches them why SOPA/PIPA is bad. If you want to learn how to stop SOPA/PIPA, try this: http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/better-activism-day...
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Learn to Be A Better Activist During the SOPA Blackouts(informationdiet.com)
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A Developer is Someone Who Writes Code, not Someone Who Reads Reddit(informationdiet.com)
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Indignant workers threaten suicide at Foxconn park in Wuhan(wantchinatimes.com)
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Congress Being Stupid on Technology is a Bigger Problem than You Think(informationdiet.com)
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Except for regulations regarding who you can and cannot sleep with, what religions you may belong to, and whom you may marry.
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A few thoughts... I rolled my eyes when I first saw it. Another silly gadget when my Roku does just fine. At some point it just becomes too stupidly small, right? Then I watched the video where he plugs it into the hotel TV and it all made
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To me, this is proof positive that campaign contributions are correlative but not causal.
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How to Start Your Information Diet(informationdiet.com)
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The best way would be to make desktop software that did the required tasks without exposing third parties to the data at all.
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I took a look, excited about this software, but giving a third party access to my entire Dropbox to an organization that doesn't state it's security policies, and says that the only way to delete my account is to drop the founder an email s
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A Primer: How Money Influences Politics(informationdiet.com)
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How to Talk to Congress about SOPA(informationdiet.com)
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Let us use "Airplane Mode" During Takeoff and Landing(usatoday.com)
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I don't work for Living Social, but I think it's a huge risk that they're taking. The form is burdensome because it needs to be. The only people that they should get are people that really want to learn and that's exactly what they'll g
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Yeah, this isn't true. It just means the lobbyist would have to register as a foreign agent lobbyist if it was lobbying on behalf of a foreign interest. It's totally legal to accept foreign money to influence congress. And as a result of ci

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