I attended Drupalcon last week, which is a bi-annual Drupal conference for developers, themers and business development types like myself.  I had a great time, so here are some quick thoughts on the conference. (1) Drupal people are really nice.   Conversations came easily and people ...

Here is an interesting article I read this week from the Personal Democracy Forum -- an online hub for news and insights regarding technology and its intersection with politics and democracy: A striking fact about the current political environment is that despite the ground-breaking Democratic victo...

Talk about revenge of the nerds! If President-elect Barack Obama actually fulfills his promises to bring the White House into the Web world, the techiest among us may have the loudest voices of all when it comes to influencing our government. Because let’s face it: It took a year to get used to Fa...

Rebooting America is a collection of essays by various prominent and other personalities in politics, activism, nonprofit organizations, and new media. The essayists grapple with answering the question of how to reinvigorate and redefine American democracy for the Internet Age. More than just a coll...

AUSTIN, July 20 -- "Yep, the way it's looking, we might actually win this thing . . ."...

AUSTIN, July 20 -- "Yep, the way it's looking, we might actually win this thing . . ."...

Elizabeth Edwards took the stage at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York today virtually - via Skype. As her flight was cancelled at the last minute, she was unable to make her in-person slot for us or "Good Morning America" so she did them both from home. As I watched the program - questions fr...

That's what Micah Sifry, Sunlight's senior strategic consultant and executive editor of the Personal Democracy Forum says today, about an E-Tech on a panel on "civic hacking" -- online activists taking government data in its raw and user-unfriendly state, and making it accessible and helpf...