Government 2.0
Update (Sep 22 @ 1:07pm) - The Austin Police Department has decided to cancel Operation Wardrive and focus on the public education facet of this work. See Mark Boyden's comment, an email response from APD Chief Art Acevedo. Thanks go to <a href="http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/
Free Speech
Guest post by Jay Leiderman of Leiderman Devine LLP [ @LeidermanDevine ]. Also available on Paste2. On Tuesday, 16 August 2011, BART [ @SFBART ] spokesperson Linton Johnson [ @BARTChiefSpokes ] held a press conference to address the need to disrupt communications in advance of a lawful, peaceable assembly. He spoke of a US Supreme Court
Events
EFF-Austin, working with the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin, is helping organize the Texas Government 2.0 Camp on January 28-29 at the Austin Community College Eastview Campus. You can see more about the event here: http://txgov20.org/ "The Texas Government 2.0 Camp
Activism
Google just announced that they plan on rolling out a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) Internet access service in a number of trial locations. To give some perspective, a 1Gbps Internet access service would be over 65 times faster than Time Warner Cable's fastest Road Runner tier