Before panelists at the 2010 Personal Democracy Forum conference could even begin to debate the role the government should play in “saving” American journalism, a litany of terms needed to be defined.
“Government” was broken down. Do we mean Federal or local government? Does this mean public supported projects or just official mandates?...
Continue ReadingLast year’s Personal Democracy Forum conference featured a lot of discussion over the infancy of new media in government and how crowd sourcing would help connect citizens to civic engagement.
Just a year later, new media seems to be learning to crawl. Between the White House’s blog, the Department of Education’s Flickr account,...
Continue ReadingCan the Internet Fix Politics?
That question is the theme of the 2010 Personal Democracy Forum, a two-day conference that merges technology with politics. Another theme that continued to be mentioned during the opening event of PdF was the ongoing disaster in the Gulf Coast, and the inability of the government and private industry to solve the crisis....
Continue ReadingSome people really dig their town, and Manor, TX is trying to tap into this passion through its crowdscouring site Manor Labs. The site has many social media features from sites like Digg. It seems fitting that its CIO Dustin Haisler, who is 23, spearheads this effort; perhaps this is what you get when you give a millennial authority. ...
Continue Reading"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we do not know we don’t know.”- Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
With the sheer quantity and overall quality of information presented at this weeks 2010 Politics Online Conference,...
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