odigity - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Free Staters? (Score 1) 164

by odigity on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @11:17AM (#35138058) Attached to: New Hampshire Begins Open-Data Efforts

The official organization known as the Free State Project is simply the bus. It's job is to get people to New Hampshire, not to tell them how to pursue liberty after they get here. (Really, the FSP's only real job is to host the website with the "statement of intent" and the signup and move counters.) Hence, there is no official connection between the FSP and the NHLA, or any other pro-liberty organization started by Free Staters.

However, the NHLA is primarily founded and run by Free Staters.

Submission + - New Hampshire begins open-data efforts (techpresident.com) 1

Submitted by Plugh on Monday February 07, 2011 @01:57PM

Plugh writes: The Free State Project was created to move 20,000 small-government activists to New Hampshire (here's the Slashdot story from 2002).

IT people, with our ability to work anywhere, were some of the first to move. Now, with over a dozen Free Staters elected to the NH legislature, these geeks are starting to affect government data-sharing policy.

Comment Idiocracy? Really? (Score 1) 1345

by odigity on Friday September 04, 2009 @11:59PM (#29320641) Attached to: Schooling, Homeschooling, and Now, "Unschooling"

Can't believe a bunch of you tagged this 'idiocracy'. Ignorant assholes.

Most of you probably don't even know many home/unschoolers. I do. The kids are incredible.

Submission + - Ron Paul's use of the Internet in his presidential

Submitted by

tres3

on Saturday November 10, 2007 @08:52PM

tres3 writes: "A recent New York Times article explores some of the success that Ron Paul's presidential campaign has had in using the Internet. The author correctly states that others aren't as successful because their approach led many to micromanage their Web sites. By contrast, [Ms. Teachout] said, the Paul campaign took the opposite lesson that it was about openness and power. He has over 1140 MeetUp Groups in 900 cities (including one in the green zone in Baghdad) that have operated largely independently from the campaign.

For instance the ThisNovember5th site was setup by Trevor Lyman using a video created by James Sugra without even consulting the campaign. That site brought in $4.3M from 37,000 donors in 24 hours. Mr. Paul estimated that the one-day haul had brought $10 million worth of free publicity. Ron said he hadn't even gotten around to thanking them yet. THANKS Guys!! There is a new money bomb web site being prepared now in celebration of the Boston Tea Party

The article goes on to cover the wide variety of supporters that the Paul campaign has attracted. In reality Dr. Paul didn't create these groups; he simply gave them a focal point to rally behind. And he used the Internet to unite them, or more accurately, the users of the Internet found his message and united themselves behind it. I guess that is why the author titled the article 'The Web Finds Ron Paul, and Takes Him for a Ride'."

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