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Open source values: Consensus

Open source values: ConsensusGenerally true of volunteer effortsFor many years, I've been an amateur musician and as such, have played in a number of community bands, and most recently a community orchestra I play two instruments. One thing I've noticed is that while the conductor does need to be...

Tags: Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Web browsers, Participatory Democracy, Google Images, open source, cow, leader

Discussion threads 2007-11-15

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Lower costs or mandate coverage

More Politics on ZDNET?This is a tech site - please stick to TECH.Pitching this spin is not productive. It's also so one sided as to be laughable.America is a capitalist nation. Let the free market do its job and stop interfering.The marketThe market says policy is important. I...

Tags: Vertical industries, Palin, Carl Rapson

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Building a vision for Government 2.0

Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...

Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Election industry fights open source like it is 1999

Election industry fights open source like it is 1999Correction: change the insecure in previous posting to secureReally got to look closer at what I post.I have to agree that the electronic election industryNeeds some severe reform, if not the hammer brought down on them. I was ALWAYS suspicious as to...

Tags: Companies, election industry, open source, TRANSPARENCY

Discussion threads 2009-04-21

2008: The year of hack the vote?

2008: The year of hack the vote?It's only the free world at stakeStep A Open source, then step B Test, retest, test ongoing, test until the end of time and C Use the damn manual ballots until the system is infallable... Not infallable yet? Repeat steps A and B.What about...

Tags: open source, ballot, democracy

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

Singularity Summit 2007: Open source Singularity

"If the singularity is in fact near, the fundamental tools of information, collaboration and access will be our best hope for making it happen in a way that spreads its benefits and minimizes its dangers -- in short, making it happen in a way that lets us be good ancestors.,"...

Tags: Software, Scenario, Open Source, System, Benefit, Google Earth, Technology, Tool, Democracy, Singularity Summit 2007, AR World, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Social Capital Theory Meets Web 2.0, by Donna Bogatin

SOCIAL CAPITAL THEORY MEETS WEB 2.0by Donna BogatinInteractive Presentation Authored by Donna BogatinFor presentation at IBM Research Center, Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 11am I am invited to share my Web 2.0 thoughts with T.J. Watson Research Labs. In Web 2.0 and blogosphere fashion, my presentation to IBM will...

Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Usability, Enterprise, Blogs, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Brands, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Social Media, Wikipedia

Blog posts 2007-02-05

Hyperlocal content: Local news or community gossip?

Hyperlocal content: Local news or community gossip?As the say, "talk is cheap" - why not start with local conversations?If revenue, much less profit, remains elusive in local online efforts like Backfence.com, let's not give up on the idea of connecting people online based on local geography.At E-Democracy.Org, we've been hosting...

Tags: Hyperlocal

Discussion threads 2007-01-09

Makeover Democracy 0.1 (Mac)

Makeover Democracy is a an icon set for the Democracy Player by the Participatory Culture Foundation. The icons were designed in-house by Icon Icon and come with an installer / uninstaller.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Democracy, Makeover Democracy, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-09-13

Social media for CIOs

Social networking--and the media that is socialized, flowing through rivers of links, tags, feeds and bookmarks--is all the rage. MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Digg and YouTube have become budding mainstream brands creating a new interaction dimension, especially among the digerati, and there are hundreds of other less well know and trafficed...

Tags: media, collaboration, networking, social media

Blog posts 2006-08-23

Howard Rheingold about our mobile world

Howard Rheingold is the well-known author of Smart Mobs and many other books describing the evolution of our societies. His last book predicted the transformation of our society into a mobile one. Four years later, and with thousands of posts published on the collective blog organized around this theme, his...

Tags: Howard Rheingold, mobile, telephone

Blog posts 2006-07-20

Defending Linux against Wingots

Defending Linux against WingotsIf you want consistent and 'easy to use' then stick to one distribution.The Linux community has diverse interests. Specific distributions and vendors try to make things easy for those who don't specialize in running operating systems. I know you just said the same thing, I just don't...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, LSB, Linux

Discussion threads 2006-06-15

Dan Rather on the state of American media

Last night on the UC Berkeley campus, CBS News icon Dan Rather discussed the state of American media with Orville Schell, dean of the Journalism school. Rather discussed his lifelong love for journalism and his career, which was upended in 2005 due to the dust up over President Bush's service...

Tags: American Media, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Dan Farber, journalism, Orville Schell, Reporters

Blog posts 2006-04-26

Panel: E-voting vulnerable

Panel: E-voting vulnerableIn a word:DUH.Shouldn't technology be improving things, instead of making them worse?Wait, they've been saying that for 30 years now. And yet things haven't gotten better... Heck, I'll go get my Atari 400 out of mothballs. Never had a virus on it and I practiced...

Tags: INTERNET, ballot, e-voting

Discussion threads 2005-10-07

CNN and Technorati: Unconventional wisdom

Political conventions have devolved since Kennedy commandeered television. As suspense went out the window thanks to front-loaded primaries and brokered tickets, the Big Show became an infomercial.The same thing has happened in the technology space, with Comdex giving way to vendor-controlled developer conferences such as Microsoft PDC and JavaOne. And...

Tags: CNN, Technorati

Blog posts 2004-07-21