Free the Patents and Laws, Activist Tells Feds

Wired by Ryan Singel | Jul. 23, 2009 (News Report)

What’s worse than being a government agency targeted by a gadfly who wants data to be free and is willing to plead, sue, reverse-engineer, grandstand and shame his way into freeing government data? Well, try being a government agency on the receiving end of that in an administration that has pledged allegiance to transparency and openness. Full Story »

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 by Derek Hawkins - Jul. 23, 2009

Displays Wired's clear partiality for government data transparency, and I feel like the magazine squandered an opportunity to do an interesting, compelling profile. The author does justice to his calls for opening databases to the public, but he could have just as easily achieved this in an interview. Too much advocacy, not enough story.

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