Clearing the Cache: Like, With Actual Telephones
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, July 29 2009
- On the health care front, Obama does a tele-townhall...
- While #handsoff tops 9,000 tweets.
- Wikipedia can help you pass a Rorschach test.
- Speaking of Wikipedia, take control of your or your issue's entry.
- A renter is sued over a tweet, and the suer's handling of it is an instant classic: "We're a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization." Exactly what one looks for in a landlord.
- New media kills euthanasia rumors.
- AT&T explains that they blocked 4chan over a DOS attack. Says 4chan's Moot: "In the end, this wasn't a sinister act of censorship, but rather a bit of a mistake."
- Don't going looking for Google Voice on your iPhone anytime soon.
- Money meant to make 911 text-friendly is being diverted.
- Some government websites are actually very good.
- Rudy's, that free hot dog and cheap pitcher haven that has been home to Drinking Liberally's founding Manhattan chapter since the get go, needs some help staying open.
- Senator Bernie Sanders wasn't at all pleased with the WaPo's editorial on Fed secrecy: "What a sad day for a newspaper with a storied reputation for exposing waste, fraud and abuse in government."
- The FCC announces 18 broadband workshops.
- And ProPublica offers a look inside more Team Obama disclosures.