Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Sep 8th, 2003 Comments Off
Help! For BloggerCon: We are searching for an ethnographer, social researcher, cognitive psycholost who is exploring blogging, telepresence, etc. and its effects of individuals and groups. It would be great if the person is both (1) conducting their own studies, and (2) a research methodology junkie–and can opine on ways we might [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Sep 4th, 2003 Comments Off
Terrific new article from the Washington Monthly September 2003
The Post-Modern President
Deception, Denial, and Relativism: what the Bush administration learned from the French.
By Joshua Micah Marshall
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Every president deceives. But each has his own style of deceit. Ronald Reagan was a master of baseless stories — trees cause more pollution than cars — that captured [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Sep 3rd, 2003 Comments Off
Hey guys, we now have an interesting set of experiments going in the civic layer at HLS–with our H2O software for raising consciousness in law classes, and with blogging…Now if we began to let students bring their “posses” with them to class, a la Joi Ito’s p-time…
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Sep 3rd, 2003 Comments Off
I have written before about the “civic layer” of the web–the one above Yochai Benkler’s http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/wiki.pl?… (my colleague at Harvard Law School) three layers–physical, logical, and content. The civic layer, or the social layer, is where we live, have our communities and our lives, make the complex relationships we weave.
Why RSS matters is that it [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Sep 3rd, 2003 Comments Off
A core argument in the Second Superpower Rears Its Beautiful Head is that there is a new demographic force in the world–a new group of “post-conventional” thinkers, who seek a more global identity, who are prepared to challenge authority, who want more choice and options in their lives, and who tend to identify more with [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Sep 2nd, 2003 Comments Off
There has been much handwringing recently among Democrats about campaign finance reform, because it is cutting off access to the millions of dollars of soft money that kept Democrats going over the past few years. And so, in the short term, Republicans are winning the fundraising race. Republicans, despite their big money image, collect [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Sep 2nd, 2003 Comments Off
Howard Dean has become the leader in the Democratic primaries, and now has a shot at unseating George Bush. Success brings challenges. He is soon going to hit a predictable “phase change” in his own campaign that may test his own leadership and that of his senior staff.
He and his staff will begin to [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Sep 2nd, 2003 Comments Off
Here is a very good short piece by Jonathan Schell arguing that in electoral politics speaking the truth can lead to winning change–even if the candidate who speaks the truth does not win the office. One example, McGovern lost the presidential race in 1972, but his speaking the truth about the war in Vietnam arguably created [...]
Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Sep 2nd, 2003 Comments Off
You Can Change Everything
Dear jmoore at cyber.law.harvard.edu,
This next month is critical to our campaign. During the next 29 days, we are going to prove the staying power of the grassroots— prove that you have the power to change the way politics is done in our country– and we are going to create the September to [...]