Government2.0

Rebooting America

Yay! Totally stoked that Rebooting America is now available for sale, an anthology I worked on with the good peeps at the Personal Democracy Forum. Rebooting includes forty-four essays by political a ....... read more
Fri,
12 Sep 2008
You can?t eat Whuffie (but it?s getting harder to eat without it)

The last couple of times Ive come across the border to apply for my TN1 Visa (NAFTA Visa between Canada and US), the border officers have Googled me. And, to my surprise, have actually told me that ....... read more
Tue,
05 Aug 2008
TransitCampBayArea Wrap Up

I may be completely biased, but TransitCampBayArea totally, completely exceeded my own expectations for the event. And the way that Im biased is that I quite often hate my own events. In fact, Im d ....... read more
Mon,
25 Feb 2008
Citizen Superheroes?and other tales of Government 2.0


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This is the presentation that Chris and I will be giving tomorrow morning here in Taupo, New Zealand. I thought you may want to take a sneak peek. I had to downgrade th ....... read more
Sun,
18 Nov 2007
We Don?t Need No Stinkin? Wizards

Recently, I heard the awesome Gustavo Esteva speak about his experiences with multiple uprisings in Mexico. What struck me was how empowered he described Mexicans as being. At one point, he compared ....... read more
Wed,
31 Oct 2007
The Brown Act of 1953: how this positive policy now negatively affects civic collaboration

We were offering up some suggestion on how to get more collaborative with citizens to a municipal government official the other day, but it seems that everything we offered up would not be allowed und ....... read more
Wed,
17 Oct 2007
Speaking of Government 2.0

I have a few questions Id love some musings/answers on:
Do you trust government services? Local (municipal)? State/Provincial? Federal? Can you name 5 government services? 10? Are they local, stat ....... read more
Tue,
16 Oct 2007