June 2008
26 posts
Radio(talking)head(s)
We’ve had a few interviews over the real and virtual airwaves lately:
I was a guest on Karen Jagoda’s Digital Politics on June 20th. Fortunately for us, if unfortunately for the listeners, the other guest - well-known pollster Mark Mellman - was running late, so we got a few extra moments to discuss Ameritocracy. Go to Digital Politics to stream or download the interview.
Bobby...
Speaking of free distribution of intellectual...
Why can’t we record video of the Personal Democracy Forum sessions? I could really stand to hear and see these brilliant ideas again.
{ Iris* }
We are MoMB's 5555th Beta... odd! →
Check it out, there’s some really neat graphs and statistics going on here: “Interestingly enough only 185 sites (3.33%) have been formally released (i.e. dropped the beta tag) and only 62 sites (1.12%) have gone out of business and entered the deadpool. I try my best to update the status of sites and I definitely missed a few, but even if you triple the numbers more than 90% of all...
Ameritocracy: Crowdsourced Campaign Clarity - 100... →
Holy crap, we’re on ReadWriteWeb, Technorati’s “10th most popular blog in the world.” THANKS RWW!
Blogged by Bonneman →
Iris: Do we know Tim Bonneman? Porter: Nope. Iris: Nice.
The Museum of Modern Betas →
Friend from Texas cued us into this. Generally a hilarious idea! http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/beta/
Ameritocracy Beta: 50 Invites for Readers of... →
We’ve been blogged in Kevin Bondelli’s Youth Vote, Technology, Politics blog. I really like his examples, they really get straight to the point. Thanks a bunch Kevin!
Wisdom of the crowds, trust, and the news →
Our brilliant advisor, Mike Dover, has blogged us over at the Wikinomics blog! We encourage everyone to go over there and comment on and check out the blog at large. Mike has been a big help to us and we’re excited to finally be getting the word out to the Wikinomics sphere.
{ Iris* }
Something is coming!
I’ve been feeling for a couple years now that something was rumbling between the internet and politics. At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco I wrote on my fill-in-the-blank tshirt (which began “Web 2.0 is __________”), “THE HORROR! Global Public Outrage is Coming!”. I was so excited, because for some reason I felt that the world was suddenly paying attention to the...
Making your own judgments
Our brilliant and thoughtful friend, Jennifer Jeanine Thweatt-Bates, takes a look at us while pondering the troubles of epistemic uncertainty, and how certainty that she was receiving misinformation meant apathy towards politics and voting.
http://rudetruth.blogspot.com/2008/06/ameritocracycom.html
[Ameritocracy is] a way to help you make an informed judgment, rather than making a judgment for...
Building Ameritocracy one quote at a time →
Porter’s been blogterviewed (eh? no?) by Julie at the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet! I love it when people refer to him as “Bayne”.
- Iris
Congress, Communication, and Constituents
Julie over at the IPDI just posted some interesting statistics about the frequency, and quality, of response that constituents receive from congress. Highlights:
92% of Internet users who contact Congress through email, web forms, etc. want a response.
Only 63% recall receiving a response.
Almost half (46%) were dissatisfied with the response.
More than half (64%) say the response did not...
Ameritocracy is now on MySpace and Facebook. ‘Just search for “Ameritocracy” and we’ll likely be your first hit.
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