A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by Maclean’s columnist Scott Feschuk for PublicVoice.tv on what the rise of “open” systems and the continuing evolution of information technology will mean for the future of both government and citizen engagement. Cleverly, they’ve kept these videos nice and short – it’s all designed to be short [...]
Entries from May 2009
PublicVoice Interview on “Open,” Government and Citizen Engagement
why collaborative skills matter in open source
For the past several years now I’ve been talking about how community management – broadly defined as enhancing a community\’s collaborative skills, establishing and modeling behaviour/culture and embedding development tools and communications mediums with prompts that “nudge” us towards collaborative behaviour – is imperative to the success of open source communities. (For those interested in [...]
Neo-Progressivism watch: online collectivism as the 3rd way that works
Just finished reading Kevin Kelly’s piece The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online in Wired Magazine. It talks about the same themes Taylor and I were trying to surface Progressivism’s End and I suspect we agree with Kelly’s in many regards. Taylor and I talked about how the left (now old left) killed [...]
Cool Job in Open Source, Science and Engagement
My friend Rikia S. sent me the link to this cool job posting on the TED website. Based on astronomer Jill Tarter’s TED Prize wish — to search for signs of intelligent life on other planets – the SETI Institute is hiring a project manager with the experience, qualifications and energy to run the TED [...]
The Myth of the “Wasted” Vote
One of the most disturbing allegations to come out of the electoral reform debate was the notion that people who voted – but whose candidate didn’t win – had their vote “wasted.” The biggest problem with this analysis is that it casts the meaning and purpose of voting in the narrowest light possible. Defined this [...]
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