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Tag Archives: obama
Obama’s democracy
Interesting paper from Delib on the approach to government taken by the Obama administration in the States: The reality has certainly been a lot more muted than most geeks would have liked. Nothing overly glam and technologically ground-breaking, but instead … Continue reading
Learning from Obama
Edelman have published an interesting white paper on what lessons can be learnt from Obama’s use of the social web in his campaign. It’s worth a read. Here’s the headline list of learning points: Start early Build to scale Innovate … Continue reading
An open transition
Another Saturday evening post about how the internet can have a positive effect on the way democracy and government operates. This one is straight from the US. An Open Transition is a site set up by a coalition of folk … Continue reading
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Tagged change, lessig, mozilla, obama, open transition
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Flaming for Obama
Lovely piece in Prospect this month from Peter Jukes, talking about the occasionally fractious community of Democrat bloggers in the US: For many in Britain, blogging, especially political blogging, is a bit of a disappointment. Many of our political sites … Continue reading
