From the yearly archives:

2009

You’ll Love Our New Rates

by Gabriel Okolski on December 22, 2009 • View Comments

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A new credit card with an 80 percent interest rate indicates that legislation to help distressed borrowers may actually be having the opposite effect.

Use your indoor voices, advertisers.

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on December 18, 2009 • View Comments

Is it the role of government to standardize and regulate commercial volume?

Some good ideas in the FCC’s National Broadband Plan

by Jerry Ellig on December 17, 2009 • View Comments

The National Broadband Plan outline discussed by FCC staff yesterday shows that good ideas supported by evidence eventually matter.

Argument for an e-mail and twitter tax?

by Jerry Ellig on December 16, 2009 • View Comments

Could dramatic increases in myopia (nearsightedness) be used as an excuse to tax e-mail and social networking?

No Nicknames Allowed

by Gabriel Okolski on December 15, 2009 • View Comments

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A TSA initiative that requires passengers’ boarding pass names to match those on their identification is a needless source of confusion without targeting TSA’s real problems

White House Policy Forum on Data Transparency

by Stan Tsirulnikov on December 11, 2009 • View Comments

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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy looks at data transparency.

Online wine sales: Retailers matter

by Jerry Ellig on December 9, 2009 • View Comments

If you’re thinking of laying in a nice California red for the holidays, you might have to pay more if your state only allows wineries to ship directly to consumers.

Transparency for Ski Bums

by Gabriel Okolski on December 8, 2009 • View Comments

It’s nice to see that one mountain takes e-transparency seriously, for the sake of skiers and snowboarders.

Climategate and Data Transparency

by Stan Tsirulnikov on December 8, 2009 • View Comments

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The “case of the missing climate data” should serve as a wake up call to policy makers, scientists, journalists, and citizens that raw data should be (and can be) shared with the wider world.

Won’t you be my (virtual) neighbor?

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on December 3, 2009 • View Comments

Does the internet lead to increased social isolation?

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