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Cognitive Surplus?

Where do all those editors and busybodies at Wikipedia find the time to do all that work?

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Hello all, a word from the treasurer here. 

Granular Social Networks

Thomas Vanderwal  has done  a wonderful post explaining the need for granularity in Social network creation.

Q&A with Jimmy Wales

Eddie Codel interviews Jimmy Wales on the Transparent Federal Budget project. http://lotv.blip.tv/file/817057/

Silona interviews

Silona interviews Joseph Smarr and Bob Blakely about the advantages and perils of OpenID, user trust, transparency, licenses and rights, open source

Social Networks and Government

I have been giving a presentation on Social Networks and Government to various groups.

Go Chris GO!

what is barcamp?

http://blip.tv/file/782312/

 Me at BarcampAustin  III  giving the lay of the land.

tagging and contextualization of identity

http://viewzi.tv/?dl=032408_silona

 My interview with Viewzi at SXSW.

Data portability interview of Silona by Scott Kveton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvtoMf7G3a8

I basically talk about data portability and government data. Also about the need for contextualization for multiple personas.

 

In DC at the Politics Online Conference

So here is the brightly colored Silona reporting from the land of black suits, DC.  I spoke yesterday at the Politics Online Conference.  Basically I organized

Federated? unified? ugh I need a term!

So I keep trying to describe the FOSSN to different people and I really do believe we need a new term to describe what I would like to create.

So I created a personal wiki

I created a personal wiki. You can see a bunch more of the work I do for LoTV there.

Berkman Blogger Group

Spoke at the Berkman Blogger Group http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggroup/2008/02/04/Great group of people - also enjoyed that they treated me to Indian food afterwards too!

Free and Open Source Social Network and Unified Social Networks

One of the things I have been talking about as crucial for the FOSSN is the ability to give the individual installations autonomy.  I knwo that Moveon for example is not going to let that data go

new Videos From BarCampTX

A series of interviews

Cody Marx Bailey and I talk about throwing and organzing BarCampTx

wiki.illuminatedbudget.org

Work continues on what the new site should look like on wiki.illuminatedbudget.org Check it out this is the place to contribute.

Podcast from the past on the codeathons and re-finding Gary Chapman

I re-stumbled upon this podcast the other day and realized I hadn't posted about it here.

Blogging

Well I have been very neglect of late in regards to this blog... probably because we keep talking of revamping the site and I'm afraid of data lost but truly that is a cop out.

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