This is a no brainer for the UK.

Free Debates is an important democratic movement. They are demanding that a condition of a network getting to screen presidential debates is that they make the material available with open source/creative commons licensing, so it can be rehashed and mashed etc. It is a great idea and any public sector broadcaster like channel 4, ITV, …

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Do you Strip?

If you want to people on side and working together, less is always more. Tom Steinberg knows that. He runs MySociety, the very successful charity which punches above it weight using the internet to help people collaborate to improve civil society.  Among tips on how to build websites for social good he includes this one: …

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links for 2008-09-24

BBC – Birmingham – Entertainment – Of all the people in all the world (tags: thericeshow) Of All The People In All The World – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Andy Mabbett, of the Birmingham Bloggers group, has been working on this since we visited the show on Tuesday. Nice job Andy. (tags: thericeshow) Online advertising …

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