Yes, there was a conference last month that kicked this off. Its
Micah Sifry's thing (Dave Sifry of Technorati fame is his brother).
Silklist's own Brian Behlendorf was there and spoke on a panel.
Perhaps not surprisingly, many of the essay authors are FOO Camp
regulars...Seems like politics is a big topic at FOO every four
years ;-). Love seeing Newt Gingrich's name right next to Kaliya
Hamlin's.
Here's a list of the essayists, if you weren' t already interested in
clicking over to the site...
* Esther Dyson
* Morra Aarons-Mele
* Yochai Benkler
* Lance Bennett
* John C. Bonifaz
* danah boyd
* Harry C. Boyte
* Matthew Burton
* Steven L. Clift
* Susan Crawford
* Pablo del Real
* Zack Exley
* Allison H. Fine
* Jan Frel and
* Nicco Mele
* Julie Barko Germany
* Newt Gingrich
* Kaliya Hamlin
* Richard C. Harwood
* Scott Heiferman
* Tara Hunt
* Jeff Jarvis
* Martin Kearns
* Avery Knapp and
* Tennyson McCalla
* Gene Koo
* Joshua Levy
* Ellen Miller
* Mark Murphy
* Craig Newmark
* Beth Simone Noveck
* Andrew Rasiej
* Glenn Harlan Reynolds
* Howard Rheingold
* Douglas Rushkoff
* Clay Shirky
* Micah Sifry
* David B. Smith
* Matt Stoller
* Aaron Swartz
* Nancy E. Tate &
* Mary G. Wilson
* Zephyr Teachout
* Brad Templeton
* Joe Trippi
* Michael Turk
* David Weinberger
* Marie Wilson
Danese
On Aug 1, 2008, at 2:02 AM, sriram balasubramaniam wrote:
From the website (http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com), "The
Personal
Democracy Forum presents an anthology of forty-four essays brimming
with the
hopes of reenergizing, reorganizing, and reorienting our government
for the
Internet Age. How would completely reorganizing our system of
representation
work? Is it possible to redesign our government with open doors and
see-through walls? How can we leverage the exponential power of many-
to-many
deliberation for the common good?".
The book is now available for sale or download (
http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com/files/Rebooting_America.pdf).
