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Behind the scenes with the Obamas: [Tags: obama politics ]

Here’s Obama’s response to McCain’s mortgage buy-back proposal: Senator McCain and I had a chance to talk about this the other night in Nashville. Some of you may have seen it. In that debate, he offered what he said was a new ide

Thanks to prompting from the ever-more-amazing Sunlight Foundation, the US Congress’ site will provide legislative documents with permanent URLs. That means you can link to them and have some confidence that the links will work tomorrow, which

If you love the Internet, you ought to vote for Obama. Yes, I know I’ve shocked you with that opinion. You can find more shocks of this sort at Tech for Obama. [Tags: politics obama ]

It’s only going to continue to go downhill. McCain’s going to get more distracted and muddled. Palin’s just going to get nastier and nastier. From here to November, the McCain campaign’s got nothing left except personal attack

Joi Ito is giving a talk at a Copenhagen media conference. He says that he wants to show us the world the way it looks to an “Internet geek.” [Note: I'm live-blogging, and poorly. Full of mistakes and omissions.] Way back when, it was dif

It must be puzzling to McCain supporters why Obamites have seized on McCain’s statement, ‘”You know who voted for it? You might never know! That one.” I’m not sure why it strikes me as particularly revelatory. But it doe

Roberto Polillo has scanned and posted stunning black and white photos of jazz greats he took in the early to mid 1960s. (Disclosure: I had dinner at his home last night. Thanks, Roberto!)

I’ve given a few interviews in Milan where I’ve been for the past two days — what a beautiful city! — and almost every time, someone has asked what Web 3.0 will be. As if I’d know! If Web 2.0 is about how easy it’s become

Often, on the back of a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign is a ‘Make Up My Room Now’ message of some sort. But, now matter how they phrase it, isn’t it the same as an “I’m Out, So This Would Be a Good to Rob Me, Especia