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From: http://www.madison.com/captimes/news/stories/74338.php Political Internet probe criticized Are deputies overreacting? By Aaron Nathans May 15, 2004 Local public officials are expressing dismay about how a tiff between a county supervisor and his former opponent ended in the seizure of the rival's computers. Dane County sheriff's deputies seized computers from the south side home and east side Madison workplace of Patrick DePula. He ran unsuccessfully against Supervisor Don Eggert in 2002 for a seat on the Dane County Board. The two are next-door neighbors. Eggert was the subject of unsigned, disparaging messages posted on the Internet. Investigators said the messages originated from DePula's computer. The crime listed on the warrant is stalking. "I think this is wildly disproportionate to the purported crime, if there even was a crime," former Ald. Tom Powell said. "In cases like this, it seems the more obvious response would be a civil charge, libel or slander. Jumping to the stalking statute is just extreme." ... See: http://www.civicspacelabs.org/ From: http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/ dan_gillmor/8679986.htm Posted on Sun, May. 16, 2004 Ex-Dean aide gets new life in valley By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist Zack Rosen wanted to change American politics when he signed up with Howard Dean's presidential campaign a year ago. A University of Illinois computer-science student, the 20-year-old moved to Vermont in the fall to be part of the campaign's technology team. While the Dean campaign has since folded, Rosen's ideas are getting a second life in Silicon Valley -- though not in the standard way. With the help of a local venture capitalist, Rosen and several colleagues are bringing the ``DeanSpace'' online collaboration software they created for the former presidential candidate to a wider civic audience. Called CivicSpace Labs (www.civicspacelabs.org), their venture is building a software platform for activists. They envision a powerful and easy to use ``grass-roots organizing tool kit'' that gives people ways to organize campaigns and then connect with like-minded activists. While CivicSpace is intended to support progressive and politically left-leaning organizations at the outset, the code will be openly available as time goes on. ... ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - - - W: http://publicus.net Minneapolis - - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - MSN/Y!/AIM: netclift Join my Democracies Online Newswire: http://dowire.org EDem's Election 2004 Links: http://e-democracy.org/us *** Past Messages, to Subscribe: http://dowire.org *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To UNSUBSCRIBE instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
