Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Sad day for Brazil

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

Sunday was a really sad day for Brazil. There was a vote if guns should be forbidden and 64% of the people said no. That’s so stupid, in Brazil 36.000 people a year are killed by shotguns.
Telepolis article

New Orleans

Monday, September 5th, 2005

I just want to point out two statements.
War on Error - Doc Searls
US Bashing - No Information

Day of the podcast

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Der erste deutsche Podcast-Thementag
On August, 29 will be the first podcasting day about the upcoming election in germany. Lots of podcasters are preparing to talk about current politics. It’s all organized by the German Podcast Federation. Here is a list of the members.
It’s nice to have podcasts as a pull service, so you can [...]

No Software Patents

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

… at least in Europe. The news is spreading fast. The European parliament voted 648 to 14 with 18 abstentions against the legislation. This is really good news, legal software patents harm innovation in a dangerous way. Big players would threaten small companies with their patents and also the open source community would be in [...]

Spread Fear

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

I laught my ass off. This is a great cut from the last republican convention in the us.
via actioncontents.com

Lobby Control

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

There is a Watchblog from LobbyControl, an initiative for transparency and democracy.
via PR Blogger.
Anyone who is interested in eGoverment can also listen to this german radio show of the Chaos Computer Club eV.