Government 2.0 redux
Mar 04
After my last post, I found this little ditty online…exactly the sort of thinking I’m advocating… “What Obama could learn from Mozilla”
Enjoy!
Muddled mob metaphors
Mar 02
Oh my god, I’m back again…and I’ll do my best to keep the pop culture references to a bare minimum. So much has happened since we last danced, so I’ll try to keep pace with all of this change.
I attended Volunteer Toronto‘s free screening of Us Now, a quaint UK documentary about the effectiveness of the latest iteration of mob rule thru technology – crowd sourcing. Collective decision making and moderation by a community of like-minded individuals are demonstrated to have some measure of success, so naturally, can the same work for government?
I use the word “quaint” because of the inherent failure of documentaries trying to capture the new, fast paced media of online social networking tools. It’s like pre-fab Top 40 pop songs – it has a hook that pulls you in slightly, but you quickly realize that there’s not enough substance, not enough meat to sink your teeth into. Like Heraclitus’ river, things are constantly changing and it’s nigh impossible to adequately capture the zeitgeist of the information age in an antiquated media format.
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