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

Hello all, a word from the treasurer here. 

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

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

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

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

Creating better community tools with Drupal! 

http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/03/26/were-taking-an-open-direction-with-w...

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

 Me at BarcampAustin  III  giving the lay of the land.

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

 My interview with Viewzi at SXSW.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

In the Parts!

The Data - Abstracted Database of legislation http://lotv.blip.tv/#645082

A series of interviews

Cody Marx Bailey and I talk about throwing and organzing BarCampTx

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

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

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.