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Carl MalamudHack 8: Annotate Hearings (2006)

<< Hack 7 ]] 10 Government Hacks — Slides From a Talk at OSCON 2006 [[ Hack 9 >>

They gave me 15 minutes to do 10 hacks at OSCON and I have to admit that by the time I hit Hack 8 I was starting to pant, so I let Jon Stewart do this one. This hack is pretty basic, basic stuff and probably doesn't need saying, but if enough people talk about clueless things that happen in government, then after a while everybody else gets the picture. Jon Stewart and the blogosphere did a brilliant job of annotating the seminal Internets Are a Series of Tubes Doctrine, helping make net neutrality a household word of sorts. If you take the time to watch a hearing and blog the good parts, it definitely gets the word out. For this hack, adopt a committee or an issue, and make a habit of watching what they do and systematically annotating them. If nothing else, you help set the terms of the conversation.


This movie is part of the collection: Internet Governance

Producer: Carl Malamud
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Support for this project was provided by the Center for American Progress, ISC, and Stichting NLnet.

This clip has a restrictive license (no derivative works) because it reuses a small amount of footage from The Daily Show (which was retrieved from YouTube) and a small amount of footage from Futurama (available for purchase) and which is present here as fair use for this news series and commentary/parody of compelling public interest which uses the metaphor of "tubes" to make a point about current events on a noncommercial web site in the public interest.