Techcrunch had an article about how some Nobel award winning scientists are supporting a proposed federal law that would make Federally funded research freely available to the public. Apparently this research is only available in expensive research publications. While I’m not a fan of some Federally funded research I do support the idea [...]

So I’ve been seeing many tweets today from @PoliticalMath regarding the data from Recovery.gov. Among my favorites was:
CA zip code 95814 added 75,000 jobs. Population: 16,600. That’s 5 jobs per person! http://bit.ly/14Uijc
As I read into the issue more I found that much of the jobs “saved or created” went to government agencies as this [...]

So I was reading Sam Diaz’s blog post ‘Washington finally embraces tech; the benefits will be here soon‘. The article makes many references to how Washington has rejected tech companies until the One came on the scene. Now all of a sudden Silicon Valley will be saved thanks to the massive spending of [...]

So GigaOm is reporting that the government has to make decisions on Broadband Stimulus payouts. All the time they don’t have any idea on where the money should be spent as they have no reliable maps showing where there are broadband gaps. As is usual for the government they relying on the government [...]

Ed Morrissey had a great post on Hot Air about a recent Twitter fight between Senator John McCain and Representative Earl Blumenauer. According to Danny Glover on the AirCongress blog:
The Arizona Republican posted his first anti-pork list under the Twitter name @SenJohnMcCain late last week, calling attention to projects like [...]