Category: Politics
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Blowing up markets
Banning sublets Last week, the State of New York passed a bill that bans short-term rentals: specifically, no homeowner or renter may sublet their home for less than a month. The target is sites like AirBNB, an up and coming website that allows travelers to eschew pricey hotels – and their accompanying hotel room occupancy […]
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Dear Member of Parliament,
Today two opposing newspaper advertisements have been placed regarding the Digital Economy Bill debate: one from the Open Rights Group, and one from the Creative Coalition Campaign. Here’s some things to consider: The Open Rights Group ad is not asking you to vote against the Bill. It is asking you to debate it thoroughly, as […]
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The Digital Economy Bill: an open letter
I’m interrupting my scheduled series of posts about social messaging, because this is important. (The final part should appear tomorrow.) Here in the UK, the Digital Economy Bill looks like it’s set to be rushed through Parliament: There’s plenty to oppose in the Digital Economy Bill, it gives the government the ability to disconnect millions. […]
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Open data at data.gov.uk
The British equivalent to Obama’s data.gov opened today. Over at ReadWriteWeb, Marshall Kirkpatrick points out the scale of the ambition involved: At launch, Data.gov.uk has nearly 3,000 data sets available for developers to build mashups with. The U.S. site, Data.gov, has less than 1,000 data sets today. […][Unlike the US equivalent, the site] includes 22 […]