Mark Hendrickson, TechCrunch: Who Should Be CTO of the USA? 102008:
BusinessWeek discusses Obama’s plan to appoint a cabinet-level Chief Technology Officer for the United States if elected. The CTO would mainly spend his or her time trying to get broadband internet access into more homes currently, only about 23 out of every 100 Americans have [...]
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Who Should Be CTO of the USA?
Steve Rubel: All Your Sites Belong to Us
Talk about re-imagining accessibility. Steve Rubel writes on Micro Persuasion: All Your Sites Belong to Us 102008:
something exceptional has happened. We now “own” the web even more than we did back then when all we simply did was create viable homegrown alternatives to big media sites.
Nowadays, if there’s an online experience we dislike, we [...]
Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama
Colin Powell Endorses Obama MS-NBC 101908
John McCane’s ‘Joe The Plumber’ ad
John McCane’s ‘Joe The Plumber” ad.
OTM: Media Law for Bloggers
On The Media: Transcript of “The Calculated Risk of Blogging” (October 3, 2008):
Every time bloggers hit publish they risk being sued for copyright infringement, invasion of privacy or defamation. While the risk seems small, groups like the Media Bloggers Association say frivolous lawsuits are chilling free speech in the blogosphere. So MBA founder Robert Cox [...]


![shepard_fairey_hope_2008 Shepard Fairey’s “Barack Obama/Hope” image went viral during the 2008 election. Then controversy about the image’s source transformed it into the poster child for fair use in the public debate over copyright and free culture. Now FULAB takes “Hope” as its icon [Image source: Wikipedia]](http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/shepard_fairey_hope_2008.jpg)

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