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We all recognise the power of information. It guides our behaviour and decisions. It tells us when the trains run and when the roads are jammed, how schools, hospitals and police are performing. We live in an age in which the essential raw material is ...
From TIM BERNERS-LEE AND NIGEL SHADBOLT,
Times Online,
17 Nov 2009
Adam Thierer recruited me to contribute to what became the Technology Liberation Front way back in August 2004, when I was fresh out of college and working as a writer at the Cato Institute. My first post was about DRM (I was against it). I remember ...
My friend Megan McArdle has a sharp post on the causes of the newspaper’s imminent demise:
Journalism is not being brought low by excess supply of content; it’s being steadily eroded by insufficient demand for advertising pages. For most of history, ...
I haven’t read Free myself yet, but I think I know Anderson’s argument well enough to know the critics aren’t really engaging it. Two really important points seem to be getting missed.
First, when Anderson says “eventually the force of economic gravity ...
Prop. B, conceived more than a year ago, was brought to City Hall by a diverse coalition of community groups. It was amended numerous times after months of public hearings. The result is a well-conceived housing policy proposal that enjoys broad ...
As with any ambitious series of new policy initiatives, some of the things done in the Kennedy-Johnson years didn’t work out well, but the results shown here speak volumes. When Ronald Reagan proclaimed “we declared war on poverty and poverty won” he ...
From TIM LEE,
The Agitator,
27 Aug 2008
Ezra Klein points out one of the biggest advantages of growing income inequality:
I’ve argued often on this blog that given how much income is concentrated in the hands of the rich, you can cut taxes for the majority of the country, raise taxes on a ...
From TIM LEE,
The Agitator,
21 Aug 2008
Matt Yglesias suggests that Tax-Increment Financing (TIF) is a good mechanism for encouraging the development of abandoned property. I disagree. TIF is mostly a mechanism for transferring taxpayer dollars to politically-connected private developers, ...
From TIM LEE,
The Agitator,
21 Aug 2008
Mark Chapman: 'I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.' Photograph: PA Transcripts of the hearing, which have now been made public, reveal that Chapman told officers he had developed a greater understanding of the value of ...
From TIM JONZE, LEE GLENDINNING,
Guardian Unlimited,
21 Aug 2008
It’s a little on the old side, but Scott McClellan’s accusation that the White House has been feeding talking points to Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity is interesting, if not surprising:
Rachel Maddow’s take here strikes me as completely backwards. She ...
From TIM LEE,
The Agitator,
19 Aug 2008
