• What is America Speaks?

    One of the most sophisticated projects that I have come across in the field of online political communication in the government sector. They have an excellent guide called: “Public Deliberation: A Managers Guide to Citizen Engagement” (link .pdf) Plus a number of other highly innovative initiatives that you can view on their web site (thanks…

  • AL Gore Speaking in Melbourne; Thursday 16 November

    Al Gore is speaking in Melbourne this Thursday at the Arts Centre. But there are no tickets available plus the live online feed that was supposed to happen, isn't happening. Here is the link of the event (link). Here is Al Gore on South Park in case you feel bad about missing his talk.

  • What is the Citizendium Project?

    Is this a competitor to Wikipedia? (thanks to David Adams, Journalist for the link) The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance.  It will begin life as a "progressive fork" of Wikipedia.  But we expect it to take on a…

  • What is Thinking Rock?

     I really like these projects…and this one is from Australia. It is a way of 'mapping' the things you do or want to do. Hypertext was first imagined by Ted Nelson way back in the 1960s as a way to organise his thoughts.  Thinking Rock is a free software application for collecting and processing your…

  • ActNow

    Australian political communication at its finest (and using features of Web2.0).(link)

  • Morning Coffee with Craig: What is Activism 2.0?

    Net Activism 1.0 = Libertarianism Net Activism 2.0 = Governance Political Communication and Information Scarcity The Internet arrived on the global stage during a tumultuous juncture in world history. The Soviet Empire collapsed; ending a 50 year ideological battle between the centralised command economies of the Communist East, and the free-market economies of the Capitalist…