Personal Democracy Forum ramp-up: adaptive legislation can respond to action in the agora
Third blog on upcoming Personal Democracy Forum conference, just published: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/personal-democracy-forum-ramp–2.html
Posts Tagged: Congress
Managing Performance Based Contracts For Success
As I closely follow developments in the current wave of acquisition reform, there certainly seems to be a focus on awarding more fixed price contracts, and the reduction of other contract types such as cost type and time and materials. What I find interesting in all this talk about commercial best practices and streamlining theRead… Read more »
“LegiStalker” launched – track your Washington representatives
A new web service called “LegiStalker” (www.legistalker.org) launched this week. It’s a resource to allow citizens to stay informed of their legislators’ activities on social web sites and in the news – all public info, honest(!) The web site was created by Forum One Communications as an entry for Sunlight Lab’s Apps for America Competition,Read… Read more »
Have You Heard About “Born Again American?”
I was just watching Bill Moyers on PBS and they played a song at the end of the episode called, “Born Again American” and mentioned a website. Here is the link: www.bornagainamerican.org This is from the homepage ~ “. . . I am my country’s keeper.” Are you inspired to become your country’s keeper andRead… Read more »
Three Things to Do Before Complaining About Your Government
adrielhampton.com – (Preaching to the choir here at GovLoop, but perhaps conversation will help hone my thoughts.) There is probably nothing that grates on my social conscience more than smart people who are anti-government. I don’t mean people who’ve got legitimate problems with politics and policy, but rather the “government can’t do anything right” andRead… Read more »
Unlikely Allies: Flickr and the Library of Congress
Last week, I posted a story on my blog about the Library of Congress and it’s partnership with Flickr to create something called “The Commons.” Take a look for yourself! Here’s a sample photo: Here’s the blog entry: Check out this article in USA Today regarding the Library of Congress and its use of Flickr,Read… Read more »