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A very “Will It Blend” holiday season

By Ira Nathenson on December 31, 2008

The next-best thing to getting Guitar Hero III for the holidays (no, we didn’t get it): blending it!

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Clouded Constitution

Clouded Constitution

By Ira Nathenson on December 15, 2008

While taking a short break from grading, I came across Wordle, a great tag-cloud generator. Here’s a tag cloud of the U.S. Constitution I created using Worldle here:

And here’s another one made using Article III, sections 1 and 2 regarding the courts.

Wordles licensed CC 3.0 Attribution U.S.

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Change.gov and Open-Government.us: an open Web 2.0 approach to the Obama transition

By Ira Nathenson on December 7, 2008

A new website, Open-Government.us, proposes three “open transition” principles for President-elect Obama’s transition to the office of the President.  The site, set up by Lawrence Lessig and others, notes the importance of openness and accessibility for the transition process.  For example, although Obama’s Change.gov transition site is generally subject to a Creative Commons license, his [...]

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