Indiana and the Friedman Foundation’s Generator Forum
Be inclusive, not just exclusive…. while launching C-SPAN’s Convention Hubs through TechCrunch and Mashable and Debate Hubs through ZDNetand Ars Technica was certainly effective, what sustained the success of these projects was the manual linking to blog posts, reaching out to a variety of bloggers over Twitter, email, phone and IM… and even reading blog and Twitter posts on air…
Social Media, Voter Reports & Voter Supression…
The ways in which things like social media, Wikipedia, blogging and Twitter (in particular) have [profoundly] changed and involved us all is amazing. I am in awe and look forward to processing it all slowly and in due time.
AnOrangeAmerica Serves up Fresh Squeezed Election Tweets
Trying to make sense of the multitudes of Twitter posts and flurry of data coming in around the country? Look no further than AnOrangeAmerica.
It’s “Wonderful” - Biden and Palin “Agree”
Separate has not and will never be equal when it comes to legal, civil, moral and cultural laws and/or norms.
Coming Back Online, Maintaining Balance
I am just working to put it back into a larger context of my life/health, the lives of the people that matter to me (many of whom aren't mass consumers of the Internet's many gems) and the larger issues facing our world.
What are the sounds a Web Community makes?
I have been enjoying participating in, learning from, and collecting my thoughts on the part longstanding part burgeoning-emerging DC new media/tech community. As I have said before, there are undoubtedly many many groups that meet, organize, take action, support one another, etc. that I have yet to discover, but am excited to do so.
What New Media Means to Me
For me, the Internet is less about the technology and the codes behind it (though, I highly respect the beauty in both the front and back-end of any product, even though I don’t know how it all works… and I also highly respect the people who bring them to life)… *I digress*… for me it is about connecting on a deeper level, crossing boundaries of geography and background, and getting things done.
Yeasayer/MGMT Show in DC… needs your help!!!
Join the cause as either a fan, or as a lover of social media as it affects the real world. Move the needle, make it happen!
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DC [2.0] Rising
…when it comes to who is listening and caring about online discussions, outlets, tools, networks and technologies… the “influentials” appear to not only take this new medium seriously, but they are willing to put/putting it to work.
Studying the Shadows from Startup Weekend DC
To apply this same methodology, the blog posts, WaPo article, and comments from Startup Weekend are in fact a shadow being cast for us — in the DC area — and for the rest of the country, for that matter, to read as an emerging body of energy, ideas and entrepreneurism. They tell the story.
Education, not war.
I do know that education, hope, and engagement are far more empowering and “preventional” than any band-aid approaches that require guns, killing and destruction.
Putin’s Power Moves… how bi-CZAR
This weekend on the McLaughlin Group, I helped develop a piece on Vladimir Putin and his Machiavellian ”chess moves” to guarantee [continued] political power in Russia.
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That We Should All Turn [Out] Healthy?
…the time has come to think about sex education. At this moment in history, the issues of gay marriage, LGBTQ rights in the workplace, and sex education policy and funding are ever-present.