Blog: Rick Smith
By Rick Smith
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05.14.10, 8:55am
At first, I didn't get what all the fuss was about. So Facebook uses some of the data users post online to make revenue? That's what Google's AdSense does right? Actually, not quite.
Facebook's current efforts on the privacy front are essentially the forerunner to the advertsing you saw in Minority Report - your data out there in the public forum where anyone looking to make - or swindle - a buck can do it.
By Rick Smith
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03.27.10, 7:21am
For anyone who is interested in seeing the work of iindividuals in the heart of the open government movement, Transparency Camp 2010 Day 1 is going on right now!
Here is a link to the live feed - I will be covering as much as I can following the summit.
http://sunlightfoundation.com/live/
Here is the live tream:
By Rick Smith
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03.26.10, 9:15am
In the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a small town youth leader is sent to take on a corrupt Congress and becomes mired in the continual grayness many politicians project onto policy. Distant, technical, and steeped in money, this verision of Washington is too easily seen today. Yet, like James Stewart's charater, many people still believe in the principles this country was founded on, and can see through the blanket of rhetoric. All it takes, they say, is a little transparency.
By Rick Smith
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03.16.10, 6:57pm
On Monday, the National Security Archive, an open government think tank, released the results of a government-wide Freedom of Information audit. For those following the Obama adminstration's efforts at opening government, their findings may come as an eye-opener.
By Rick Smith
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02.24.10, 7:14am
If open government and open data have the capacity to do the most good for the greatest number of people then Open Gov Tracker is the Open Gov movement's heart rate monitor.
By Rick Smith
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02.18.10, 8:52pm
During my bachelor’s, I formed an organization based on the idea that undergrads could successfully do research in a laboratory. The result was a volunteer group of motivated, loyal individuals who independently researched their own projects and produced great results.
Since then, I have had limited success with similar attempts. I decided to figure out what it was that made the first organization succeed while others failed. The fundamental problem was motivation of the recruits.
By Rick Smith
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02.03.10, 10:31am
Expert Labs is a Web2.0/Governement2.0 hybrid headed by the internet expert Anil Dash. Started in November 2009, this AAAS-associated non-profit promises to become a major collaboration between experts in the academic world and policy makers.
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Rick Smith is a passionate advocate of the commons (and its slightly more business-minded relative, crowdsourcing) and its integration into good governance. He spent two years in Taiwan sharing his religion and learning international development, Mandarin Chinese, and a little Tai Chi. During his undergraduate work, he started the Molecular Evolution/Bioinformatics Research Group at BYU, an undergraduate organization devoted to collaborating and sharing research on the evolution of genes and their products.
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