Comments for Admirer of Truth http://blog.samidh.com Samidh Chakrabarti in 140 characters or more... Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:12:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Things That Think by Faraih http://blog.samidh.com/2010/03/03/things-that-think/#comment-129 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:12:05 +0000 http://blog.samidh.com/?p=49#comment-129 I like the way you think and present your arguments….Do you have nmore stuff that you have written on this subject?

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]]> Comment on iFridge: A Dock for Mounting Your iPad to Your Fridge by dolbelize http://blog.samidh.com/2010/03/09/ifridge-a-dock-for-mounting-your-ipad-to-your-fridge/#comment-81 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:24:15 +0000 http://blog.samidh.com/?p=80#comment-81 looking to mount my ipad to my fridge. Ended up on this pae. I wish there was one here to buy. Maybe soon.

]]> Comment on Lobbying 2.0 by samidh http://blog.samidh.com/2010/03/22/lobbying-2-0/#comment-72 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:42:14 +0000 http://blog.samidh.com/?p=114#comment-72 James, I would draw a distinction between helping the government operate its services more effectively and helping specific political candidates be more powerful. If “Lobbying 2.0″ were simply giving free goods/services to individual politicians who are of strategic importance, then I concur it would be an unacceptable quid-pro-quo.

]]> Comment on Lobbying 2.0 by James http://blog.samidh.com/2010/03/22/lobbying-2-0/#comment-71 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:24:01 +0000 http://blog.samidh.com/?p=114#comment-71 “Too often companies use lobbyists…to threaten politicians and undermine democracy. They try to win influence by using the power of their cash rather than the power of their ideas.”

I’m not convinced the “lobbying 2.0″ you identify is really that much less insidious; here you can probably just substitute “products and services” for cash.

A you-scratch-my-back relationship between industry and government may seem agreeable when the taxpayer gets some identifiable benefit (more efficient or transparent federal agencies, for example), but it can spawn policy that is out of whack with the “public interest” just as easily as the system you decry. Maybe that disconnect is a testament to the real innovation going on.

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