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Activism can be effective, but certainly not by default. Non-profit campaigns fail about as well as startups. When I say reinvented, I mean that we need innovative ways to use tech…

Activism needs to be reinvented. Legislators are already not paying attention to email, because so much of it is automated. At best, some legislators tally email, many of them don'…

How is living in limbo for a decade, with literally no single piece of paper identifying you as a human being is "cutting in line?" And why can't we tackle these problems at the sa…

I'm in the same boat. It's been difficult. I cannot express how grateful I am to Jose Vargas for writing this story. I was brought here as a kid 13 years ago. I'm 24 now. I also gr…

We got very close to the passage of the bill during the lame duck session (dec 2010). Twenty ten especially was filled with energy and action; that's what got us there. I've seen o…

It would be nice to know why I'm getting down voted...

I am in the same boat. This could be my story, except my parents never managed to legalize, and I couldn't even get a tax id. Lawyers haven't been able to help. I am going to a "bi…

You are either misinformed or are purposely changing the facts. The immigrants who open bank accounts open them using ITIN. Others, can't open a bank account because we lack _any_ …

Spot on. If the NY Times want to write a story about an elusive American Dream they should write about us, the Dream Act students, who've been stuck in limbo with no job and no rig…

We're using Campaign Monitor and its faaaar too expensive. Sending 40k/mo would cost over $400/mo and thats ridiculous for email. Mailchimp and others cost pretty much the same.

What is your preferred way to send a lot of email (newsletters, as well as transactional)? Our volume is dozens of thousands of email per month. Up to 15k at once. I need to make t…

iPhone's iTunes will refuse to download a longer podcast over the air; only works on wifi. On my Palm Pixi, I can download/steam anything I want over EVDO.

Mine had a cracked motherboard because I was apparently picking it up off the table wrong, by the corner vs gently holding it on both sides, as designed. IBM initially claimed that…

I don't think you can SSH into a soviet era weapon. This idea that war can be carried out "safely" is detached from reality. We say that our technology gives us a moral advantage i…

I find http://www.colourlovers.com much better all around. I've struggled with Kuler for a while. Its just too slow and cumbersome (try copy pasting to Photoshop and back). The rea…

"merely (!) trying to control what tools people use to create software on their platform" Put any OS of your choice, except iPhone, in that sentence and it sounds pretty darn insan…

I've yet to see a better implementation of multitasking on a mobile device than Palm's webOS. You have to see it in action to appreciate it. As a developer you don't have to includ…

I keep bugs and do email/support via FogBugz, but when it gets down to crunch time I always end up back in Pivotal Tracker for my weekly to do. I work alone. FogBugz email integrat…

I am currently trying to develop a karma system in our community and can attest to the "leaderboards are bad" observation from personal experience. "The typical thought-process goe…

I went searching through the Settings page to no avail before I gave up and Googled (irony) how to turn it off. Besides the point though. They opt you into a service you didn't sig…

I remember when Google came out with Gmail and people were up in arms over ads appearing next to your email. Several years on and apparently it is OK to scan my address book and "a…

First step is admitting that you have a problem. After a year of crappy service I finally found a way to improve reception on my iPhone... I gave it up and switched to Verizon.

"Crowdsourcing" for grassroots activism: http://dreamact.info/