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In fact, Obama's base of small donors was almost exactly the same percent as George W. Bush's in 2004 -- Obama had 26% and the great Republican satan 25%. Obviously, this is unacceptable to current popular thinking.

The myth is that money from small donors dominated Barack Obama's finances

It comes down to which definition of "small donor" you accept

The whole section "Minority investment evaluations aren’t real" is so economically bizarre and incorrect that I don't even know where to start. It's like you wrote a blog post arguing that it is incorrect to refer to a 5' tall boy as 5' tall because he's often sitting down. Every single day every single public company in the world is valued by the last share traded, usually for a tiny fraction of the company.Finally, to the main point. Facebook has certainly figured out how to make money off of 500,000,000 users. And as they optimize, they will make a lot more money. When they figure out how to make another DIME off of every user, they will instantly be making another $50,000,000 a year... in pure profit. How much profit will 37signals make if you figure out how to make another dime off of every customer? Eh David? Facebook works on the theory that when you have a lot of people, you don't have to make as much per person, because the amount of money you make is the number of customers times the amount of money you make off of each one. Again, that pesky multiplication.

The bond and equity markets are based on sound regulation, transparency, and quarterly statements. Facebook has none of those things when it operates in the dark of the secondary markets.

Wikileaks (website) publishes documents that show a plan to curb the free software in the European Union.

This file shows that Jonathan Zuck, president of Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) –an organization with close ties to Microsoft–, and founder of Americans for Technology Leadership, had influenced the change of working documents of the European Union.

This publication shows how pressure groups influence or attempt to influence the decisions made by the European institutions, but in this case is particularly striking one of these groups trying to influence against free software (ACT) has close ties Microsoft,

If it seems like American teens are texting all the time, it’s probably because on average they’re sending or receiving 3,339 texts a month.

No one texts more than teens (age 13-17), especially teen females, who send and receive an average of 4,050 texts per month. Teen males also outpace other male age groups, sending and receiving an average of 2,539 texts.

Texting is Easier and Faster than Voice Calls

Der Ansatz dieses „Open Government“ überträgt die Ideen des auf Offenheit, Beteiligung und Rekombination ausgelegten Web 2.0 in die Umgebung regierungsgebundener Dienstleistungen. Und auch hier geht es um eine Verschiebung von Machtstrukturen,

„Aus einer Perspektive der Regierungsinstitutionen zielen Fragen zur gemeinsamen Entwicklung von Services und Regulierungsfragen auf (1) die Machtverschiebung in Richtung der Nutzer sowie (2) das Verhältnis zwischen Nutzern und externen Organisationen, die als Vermittler für andere auftreten.“

Triebfeder für Projekte mit offenen Daten ist die Idee der Co-Creation neuer Inhalte im Rahmen flexibler, datengestützter Kooperationen zwischen Bürgern und öffentlichen Akteuren

production of a briefing paper that disambiguated some of the terminology for those that are less familiar with this domain

Linked Data must adhere to the four principles outlined in Tim Berners Lee’s Linked Data Design Issues

Use URIs as names for things Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF, SPARQL) Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.

Ein interdisziplinäres Autorenteam skizziert in dem Papier Voraussetzungen des Open Government.

Die Charakteristika der öffentlichen Verwaltung, wie z.B. Regelgebundenheit, Zuständigkeitsprinzip und Nachprüfbarkeit der Handlungen, führen dabei zu eigenen Herausforderungen bei der Realisierung der Potentiale sozialer Medien und damit verbundener kulturspezifischer Ansätze.

Im Schwerpunkt Open Data werden zusätzlich die wirtschaftlichen Aspekte der Datenbereitstellung diskutiert