The Internet Is Too Smart » The WVb: I remember first accessing the internet. If you wanted to know something you’d hit up a chatroom via one of the crappy browser chatrooms or IRC. Doing this you’d meet a ton of people. You’d break the ice by them helping you with your problem, or you  Read more »

Tracking Congress can be a serious headache. With so many bills and votes in play, it’s difficult to figure out which ones are significant and which ones… aren’t so much. OpenCongress.org has a new proposal to make it easier than ever to track your interests in Congress. We’ve submitted it to the NetSquared competition, in  Read more »

As Congress returns tomorrow to start a new session, OpenCongress is excited to announce a major update that will put all the bills and votes at your fingertips. It’s never been easier to track what’s happening with your government. Now on OpenCongress, you can build a personal profile of bills and people you’re tracking, network  Read more »

Phil’s Proof » Everything that’s wrong with Facebook: Suddenly, when all your friends have been reduced to teensy avatars, canned quotations, and endless ‘favourites’ lists, they don’t seem quite as special as you may have once remembered them. I really liked this quote from a blog post on the problems with the big social networking  Read more »