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eDemocracy Update: Petition Number 10 system (via Cosmos)

Bloggerheads - the weblog of Tim Ireland (aka Manic): Here's something that should keep you busy. My original petition is certain to be rejected as my describing a lying, torturing murdering bastard as a lying, torturing murdering bastard is bound to be classified as 'a false or defamatory statement'....so instead I want to see how far I get calling on him to stand on his head and juggle ice-cream. (via Cosmos)

craigbellamy.net: The first is to be a charitable project which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. The second is to teach the public and voluntary sectors, through demonstration, how to most efficiently use the internet to improve lives (link) (via Cosmos)

The Daily Grind: ad props to the MySociety folks for the new 10 Downing Street E-Petitions system. One doesn’t have to poke around very much to sense that they have, once again, done it ‘right.’ (via Cosmos)

  One Laptop Per Child News: It suggests that an effort by something called PledgeBank fell short of expectations, so seemingly the $100 laptop -- a key to the efforts of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child organization -- is somehow a failure.While Tom Steinberg corrected Kevin's PledgeBank confusion in comments, Kevin asked Nicholas Negroponte about Mike Liveright's original pledge. Negroponte response was interesting: (via Cosmos)

  The Java Pixie's lair: Getting a bit better on the bike, but things I found today are a) even going slowly over bumps makes b00bs bounce painfully, b) staring at chix0rs is a Bad Thing when cycling, c) I'm not as fit as Pete (hehe) and as such go at 2 miles an hour and wheeze a lot, and d) the NWS hardware is Still Fun. (via Cosmos)

Obsolete: Led by a woman born into her role, surrounded by men appointed to theirs, some no doubt in exchange for a large donation, it's a handy way to judge just how little Blair has managed to achieve in comparison to his huge majorities. The Lords remains unreformed, with even (half) the hereditary peers and bishops still sitting; (via Cosmos)

  Europhobia: "ID Cards will reduce the threat of the Surveillance Society and help safeguard civil liberties"Keep an eye on The Government Says today, chaps... (via Cosmos)

  Martini Menshevism: anti ID card petition (via Cosmos)

Planet Moron: Sir Nicholas Stern, Blair’s chief economist, brought aunique perspective to the subject. Forinstance, he carefully examined the “environmental damage inflicted by theconsumption and production patterns of others” and developed a formula thatcalculates the manner in which consumption increases the risk of humanextinction (noting that it is “remarkable” we’ve lasted this long). (via Cosmos)

Cynical Chatter From The Underworld: Guido Fawkes’: Email Tony Your Questions From Guido’s site: Two journalists - Anne McElvoy and Will Hutton - will be asking the questions on your behalf tomorrow at 2.30pm for webcasting on the Downing Street site. Pose your question by emailing questions@pmo.gov.uk and he’ll answer the ones not filtered out by Anne and Will. (via Cosmos)

  A Big Stick and a Small Carrot: - Tony Blair, 24/09/02";Quotation[3] = "We have little intelligence on Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons doctrine and know little about Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons work since late 1998. - Joint Intelligence Committee, 21/08/02";Quotation[4] = "What I believe the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt is that Saddam has continued to produce chemical and biological weapons. (via Cosmos)

  Chicken Yoghurt: A cynic would argue that Downing Street’s new e-petition initiative fulfils two functions. Firstly, it corals the moaners, the complainers, the whingers, the dissidents, sceptics, cynics, and single issue yahoos all in one place. (via Cosmos)

  A Big Stick and a Small Carrot: - Tony Blair, 24/09/02";Quotation[3] = "We have little intelligence on Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons doctrine and know little about Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons work since late 1998. - Joint Intelligence Committee, 21/08/02";Quotation[4] = "What I believe the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt is that Saddam has continued to produce chemical and biological weapons. (via Cosmos)

  Guy Fawkes' blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy: Two journalists - Anne McElvoy and Will Hutton - will be asking the questions on your behalf tomorrow at 2.30pm for webcasting on the Downing Street site. (via Cosmos)

 [Bespacific.com] beSpacific: E-Government Archives: Press release: "The first-ever government-wide audit of the ways that federal agencies mark and protect information that is unclassified but sensitive for security reasons has found 28 different and uncoordinated policies, none of which include effective oversight or monitoring of how many records are marked and withheld, by whom, or for how long. The audit began in February 2005 with Freedom of Information requests from the National Security Archive at George Washington University, to more than 40 agencies, for copies of their policies and guidelines on "sensitive unclassified information."

 [York.ac.uk] University Library & Archives - Politics information sources: Brookings Institution - "an independent, nonpartisan organization devoted to research, analysis, education, and publication focused on (US) public policy issues in the areas of economics, foreign policy, and governance". Searchable site includes a detailed listing of research topics and current projects (each entry linking to reports, analysis, briefings etc), plus details of printed and audiovisual publications.

 [Americablog.blogspot.com] AMERICAblog: A blog for a great nation that deserves the truth: So, if you have an old laptop computer that is Internet ready (meaning, it's a laptop that can accept a phone cord, has an ethernet card or a PC card for Internet purposes), please consider donating it asap. The donation IS tax-deductible, and if you include your name, address, and the value of the laptop, they can mail you a receipt for tax purposes.

 [Inblogs.net] AMERICAblog: A blog for a great nation that deserves the truth: For God's sake, how pathetic is the MSM, trumpeting Bush cancelling his plans for a holiday weekend as if he's made major sacrifice instead of telling people again and again that during the first crucial three days of this disaster when the federal government failed completely and people died unnecessarily, BUSH STAYED ON VACATION.

[Neighbourhoods.typepad.com] Neighbourhoods: Citizenship and democracy Archives: And one of the key phrases comes right at the end of the paper: Paul asks, 'how can this non-partisan social movement best gather pace?' One way is to make sure that we balance all the attention to top-down structural tweaking with an attention to the ways in which people experience democracy in their everyday lives - an approach grotesquely absent from most of what has been written around the agenda thus far.

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