First POST: Scotched
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, September 19 2014
Why conservatives should back net neutrality; how big data may damage civil rights; the ways Silicon Valley start-ups are exploiting freelance workers; and much, much more. Read More
Civic Hackers in the U.S. and Russia Asked to 'Code4Country'
BY Nick Judd | Friday, September 9 2011
In the past few years, groups of civic-minded programmers have shown that when they get together to write code, they can build things that change anything from the way people respond to natural disasters to how they ... Read More
Departures Continue Among White House Tech Staff
BY Nick Judd | Friday, July 8 2011
Politico notes the rising unease about the recent string of departures among the White House's tech staff. White House Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra will leave in August. Deputy chief technology officer Beth ... Read More
Civic Commons Gets Funding, Andrew McLaughlin
BY Nick Judd | Wednesday, June 1 2011
Andrew McLaughlin, Civic Commons' new executive director, in 2008. Photo: Joi Ito/Flickr The fledgling open-source-for-governments project Civic Commons will launch as a nonprofit with the help of a $250,000 grant from ... Read More
Lessig, Zittrain, McLaughlin, and Solomon Talk Internet Off Buttons
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, April 1 2011
Over on Al Jazeera, Larry Lessig, Jon Zittrain, Andrew McLaughlin, and Access's Brett Solomon discuss "the politics of the 'Internet Kill Switch,'" as in the idea that a society could have one or a few ... Read More
Deputy U.S. CTO McLaughlin Leaves White House Post
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, December 23 2010
Photo credit: Elon University Read More
Consumer Watchdog Reacts to McLaughlin Reprimand
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, May 20 2010
Consumer Watchdog's reaction to Deputy U.S. CTO Andrew McLaughlin's limited, though inappropriate, contact with his former colleagues at Google is to say that the McLaughlin's Google ties alone were never the problem. Read More
Google All the Way Down
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, May 18 2010
Ben Smith, as per usual, applies a refreshing, clarifying lens to the news of the day. It's the irony that I left out of yesterday's look at Deputy U.S. CTO Andrew McLaughlin's reprimand: that it involved a former Google ... Read More
White House Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin Slapped for Gmailing with Googlers
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, May 17 2010
A 2008 photo of Andrew McLaughlin taken by Joi Ito, used under a Creative Commons license. Read More
Deputy CTO's Buzz Contacts Set Off FOIA Request
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, April 12 2010
Today is "Better Know Your Social Media Settings" on the blog, it seems. Read More