Communications & Government 2.0

law mashup post politics technologyPublished February 8, 2010 at 8:50 am No Comments

This weekend’s Gov2.0LA has sparked an important conversation on communicating Government 2.0. While I am still trying to absorb all of the great posts and comments that have been begun to pop up over the last 24 hours, I just wanted to share some of the posts here for now to get more people in
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At Gov2.0LA This Weekend: Legal Implications of Gov 2.0

law mashup post politics technologyPublished February 1, 2010 at 12:23 pm No Comments

I will be presenting at the Gov2.0LA conference at BlankSpaces in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 6, 2010. I will be joining lawyer Lisa Borodkin and CitySourced’s Kurt Daradics on a panel entitled “Legal Implications of Gov 2.0.”

Session Description:
“Government 2.0 means more citizen participation, but what laws are implicated when citizens share information on
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Politics Through Bits Not Bites

mashup post politics technologyPublished December 30, 2009 at 2:03 am No Comments

2010 is two days away, and amongst of flurry of blog posts and tweets about the “best of” for the first decade of this century, are predictions about how 2010 will shape up.
My prediction for the political space? We will see the emergence of politics, both at the campaign level and in media coverage, transition
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Keeping it Illegit

UncategorizedPublished August 6, 2009 at 11:59 am 1 Comment

The illegitimate view of citizen journalism (still pondering a more appropriate term) that both traditional media and others have taken extends today into the courtroom.
In Tennessee, a judge found that the independent video producer of the website piratenews.org would not be allowed to film two trials to which he sought to shoot. The judge found
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