Justices Show How Disclosing Revisions Offers (Confers?) Benefits; New York Times, 7/25/16

Adam Liptak, New York Times; Justices Show How Disclosing Revisions Offers (Confers?) Benefits:

"Public notice of these corrections is welcome progress from a court that is often resistant to change. There is little chance, for instance, that the court will allow camera coverage of its arguments anytime soon. The court continues to release audio recordings of arguments only at the end of the week, though it could easily provide them right away.

Gabe Roth, the executive director of Fix the Court, a group that has called for more openness, said the court should work harder to let Americans understand its work.

“Before 2014, few people knew that the Supreme Court was changing opinions after their release, but once this policy gained notoriety, the court made a simple fix to great praise,” Mr. Roth said. “A little dose of transparency, it seems, can go a long way, so there is no reason why the trend should not continue with swifter access to oral argument audio, online explanations of recusals and a high court webpage to which the justices’ financial disclosure reports may be uploaded.”"

[Podcast] 10 Years of Wikipedia; On the Media, 1/14/11

[Podcast] On the Media; 10 Years of Wikipedia:

"Wikipedia, the free, web-based, crowd-sourced, multi-lingual encyclopedia, turns 10 years old this month. Brooke talks to Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, about the challenges of maintaining an online democracy that doesn't descend into chaos, and also about what it's like to be targeted by Stephen Colbert's horde of vandals."