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Micah Sifry reminds us that technology is not enough to "take back our country." We also need to organize the old fashioned way.
We, the technodazzled, need to hear this. (People like Zephyr already know it.) But I also want to put in a predictable marker. A thousand times, yes, technology is not enough. But we don't yet know exactly how technology that enables self-organization will affect politics. That means that even while we acknowledge that we must must must learn the lessons of political organizing, and that we haven't been open enough to those lessons, we don't yet know exactly which lessons to learn.
I agree with you that we are so dazzled by the technology that we sometimes forget about the real reason we are using a blog. I deal with usability. My recent post evaluates the Presidential Candidate blogs from the standpoint of usability and what users should expect from such blogs. Please check it out at http://www.millennialliving.com/weblog/archives/cat_usability.html#000013#more
Posted by Tom Russo on February 13, 2004 11:02 AM | Permalink to CommentHello from Wisconsin!
Nothing could convince me to support Dean more than having him face a small group of my students in Madison and say that Kucinich has some great ideas-- and if they want to vote for Kucinich they should, because "no one should ever have to vote for his or her second choice."
That's certainly an impressive thing to convey via the Internet, but to hear Dean in person (and know that the statement was made with integrity, as if he were talking to his own children) is an entirely different matter.
Well in the interim, whilst not knowing which questions to ask, just plow right ahead. Let's not get wrapped up in any of this unified field stuff again...
Posted by Steve on February 13, 2004 03:47 PM | Permalink to Comment
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Excerpt: As we enter into the exciting but as yet uncharted realm of wedding Internet-based civic software tools to the needs and interests of citizen activists, it's nice to see David Weinberger agreeing that the "technodazzled," as he nicely puts it,...
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