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So as any of you who visited HPC yesterday know, it was attacked by a malware hosting site. I’m not sure how they do it, but somehow they get in and implant iframe code to serve up malicious software for unsuspecting visitors. I think it may have been a security hole in WordPress combined with [...]
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 and digital luminaries including Craig Newmark (of craigslist), Esther Dyson, Joe Trippi, Newt Gingrich and many others — including my slightly provocative essay, “Who [...]
The last couple of times I’ve 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 the results were good enough to back up the resume I handed them. One official actually said, “You [...]
I may be completely biased, but TransitCampBayArea totally, completely exceeded my own expectations for the event. And the way that I’m biased is that I quite often hate my own events. In fact, I’m disappointed in them about 75% of the time. (I clearly put too much pressure on myself and have too high of [...]
Did I say something funny? by Capn Madd Matt on Flickr Chris and I presented a workshop at Web Directions North this week we had originally titled, “The Enterprise and Government in the 2.0 Era: What’s Next?” Boring, eh? Well, we thought so. So, we sat down a couple of weeks ago to restructure the [...]
http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=citizen-superheroesand-other-tales-of-government-20-1195428524859208-4 | View | Upload your own 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 the images so that Slideshare would accept it, so if you want a copy of the [...]
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 the citizen engagement to the story of the Wizard of Oz: [paraphrased] Government is much like the Wizard of Oz. Just like the [...]
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 under the Brown Act of 1953. Stuff like using open to the public Google Groups to correspond between project stakeholders (allowing [...]
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