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Poligraft is a new, geeky Web tool that the Sunlight Foundation just launched. You can plug either a URL or text into the tool and it will analyze the information and link you to groups that donate to politicians.

…Let’s take a look at CNN‘s story on the “buzz” over Proposition 8. When you drop that story’s URL into Poligraft, you can see how various groups mentioned in the story give money to one party or the other.

via Poynter Online – Al’s Morning Meeting.

Interesting side note: “Generation Y” generally gets slapped with the label of being impatient when it comes to page load times, but did you know that mobile web users over the age of 45 are actually the most impatient of all? The folks at Equation Research tell us this is so.

via Cheat Sheet: Everything you wanted to know about web performance but were afraid to ask — Web Performance Today.

Reporters Without Borders released its annual report [PDF] on online access today. They call it Enemies of the Internet, and it shows a world where online censorship, intimidation and worse is increasing.

It’s not surprising that as access to the Internet expands, more and more dictators and tyrants will try to suppress it. But wha’s troubling about this year’s report is the inclusion of two democratic countries: Australia and South Korea.

via ‘Enemies of the Internet’: Not Just For Dictators Anymore.

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Belief In Climate Change Hinges On Worldview : NPR.

Listen here to how we are all influenced by our beliefs, and not by facts. What fools these mortals be….

Check out the Cultural Cognition Project and its explorations of communitarians and individualists. We test new info against our existing worldview.

CTA is a profoundly undemocratic undertaking, as is amply demonstrated in the debate in this video. K-street lobbyists, corporate execs, and other movers and shakers know everything that's going on in the ACTA negotiations, but the public is frozen out of the debate. And as Jamie Love points out, public access to other copyright negotiations — such as those at WIPO — have fundamentally changed their directions, because the public doesn't want expensive gags and handcuffs put on the Internet in order to bolster the entertainment industry's profits.

Watch this video. It may be the most productive 90 minutes you spend today.

via Secret copyright treaty debated in DC: must-see video Boing Boing.