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Politics and Technology: Scott Chacon for Congress: Turning Everything Inside-Out
“Scott Chacon is anything but typical. He’s a software developer running for Congress - and he’s using his campaign as the testbed for an open source project to create a new kind of campaign management software.”
(tags: personaldemocracy campaigns)

Smart Mobs: Wacky Wikipedia Editing Controversy

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Zack Exley: An Organizer’s Guide to Trusting the People
(tags: campaigns activism personaldemocracy)

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The People Choose 2006
(tags: personaldemocracy campaigns video-blogging)

Does your life suck? - Life - The Phoenix
(tags: secondlife thesis)

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I, like many people, have issues with Bill Clinton but can’t help from loving him sometimes. He’s just such a good politician and so, so smart. His performance on Fox the other day was inspiring. If only the rest of the Democrats could take a hint.

Keith Olbermann responded to the incident the [...]

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Elections 2006 - Radio Open Source Wiki
A good idea. Who else is doing it?
(tags: personaldemocracy wikis campaigns research)

Center for Citizen Media: Blog » Blog Archive » Political Transparency Project
Another open-source project covering the elections with Dan Gillmor’s help
(tags: campaigns research citizen-journalism personaldemocracy)

Election Central | TPMCafe
(tags: election campaigns research citizen-journalism personaldemocracy)

TIME.com: The Netroots Hit Their [...]

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Political Gastronomica: Will Social Networks Change Politics?
(tags: participation technology personaldemocracy)

speech accent archive: browse
This is really cool — hear people with accents from all over the world speak the same English sentence.
(tags: sound speech language)

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The Democrats Finally Get the Web
(tags: personaldemocracy)

MyGOP Tries to Leverage the Internet
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Ethanz’ holiday in Zimbabwe
A nice shout-out to Ethan Zuckerman for his writing from a recent trip to Zimbabwe.
(tags: africa citizen-journalism)

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I had a lot of fun today at OneWebDay, an Earth Day-like event to celebrate the web. The turnout wasn’t huge but those that came were enthusiastic and in good spirits. I got to meet Craig Newmark, of cragislist fame, and lots of others who are doing the important, noble, humble work of [...]

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