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John Maeda
http://www.risd.edu/president/maeda.html
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John Maeda [MY-ay-da] is a world-renowned artist, graphic designer, computer scientist and educator whose career reflects his philosophy of humanizing technology.
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Who Owns the Law? Arguments May Ensue
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/business/media/29link.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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A variety of organizations claim copyright to the basic code that governs our society. Yes, it is a bit of a head-scratcher.
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Tech activist takes on governments over 'copyrighted' laws | Politics and Law - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10050687-38.html?part=bloomberg&subj=news
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From a corner of a nondescript office building at the edge of wine country, Carl Malamud is masterminding an electronic guerrilla war against governments across the nation.
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The Open Debate Coalition
http://sharpynews.com/politics/john-mccain/john-mccain-news/the-open-debate-coalition-ask-mccain-and-obama-to-open-debates-john-mccain/
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A new coalition has been formed including Conservatives and Liberals and they are asking John McCain and Barack Obama open the remaining presidential debates to the public domain.
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Sebastopol man puts code manuals online
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/27/BAAH134FI4.DTL
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"This stuff has been locked up behind a cash register. (It's) way too important to just leave it there."
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Tech activist takes on governments over 'copyrighted' laws
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10050687-38.html
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In the 1990s, Carl Malamud prompted the SEC and Patent Office to put their databases online. Now he's focusing more broadly on liberating government data, which is often sold for a princely sum.
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America's Operating System (Letter to the GPO)
http://public.resource.org/gpo.gov/index.html
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In a classic shell game of shuffle that tax dollar, Public.Resource.Org just sent a check for $17,325 to the Government Printing Office.
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ProxyDemocracy
http://www.proxydemocracy.org/
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A set of tools to help investors hold corporations accountable, one vote at a time. Mutual fund voting records; free email alerts on upcoming meetings.
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We the . . .
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080905/OPINION/809050369/1033/news
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Imagine if the Founding Fathers tried to copyright the Constitution
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Ernst Haeckel: Die Radiolarien (1862)
http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/radiolarien/
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35 copper plates that accompanied Ernst Haeckel's Radiolaria book from 1862.
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