The future of open government is allowing seamless conversations to occur between thousands of employees and people … You can’t divorce open government from technology. Technology enables the conversation and supports the conversation. We’re finding that if we don’t stand in the way of that conversation, incredible things can happen.
will open government be able to tap into the “civic surplus” to solve big problems. That’s Clay Shirky‘s “cognitive surplus,” applied to citizens and government. For open government to succeed, conveners need to get citizens to participate
Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead on some sophisticated task
True socially-infused movements cannot be forced
The bad news for marketers is that Shirky’s examples quietly illustrate that we can’t force meaningful social activities. They happen organically, if not accidentally
Facebook ist das grösste soziale Netzwerk und verbindet bald 600 Millionen Menschen. Sie stellen täglich über 1 Milliarde Informationsinhalte auf Zuckerbergs Netz.
Paradoxerweise hat das unser Miteinanderleben auf verschiedenen Ebenen verkompliziert. Dreh- und Angelpunkt ist die permanente Pflege der virtuellen Identität.
Im Politischen sind soziale Netzwerke ein effizientes Mobilisierungsmittel für Protestbewegungen. In Iran etwa organisierte sich die Opposition vor den Wahlen 2009 über Twitter, Facebook und Youtube
Deshalb ziehen sich erste Mitglieder wieder aus sozialen Netzwerken zurück.
m Silicon Valley pumpen Investoren derzeit beherzt Millionen in Firmen wie Yammer oder Tumblr, so dass man sich an die Exzesse der Dotcom-Blase vor einem Jahrzehnt erinnert fühlt.
A celebration of the comedy of Bill Hicks. The film is structured around the different strains of comedy in the Hicks stand-up, sampling the best of his confrontational performance.
Interviewees include two major American chat show hosts, David Letterman and Jay Leno, the actor Eric Bogosian and a wide range of comedians who admired his work including Sean Hughes and Eddie Izzard.
There are also anecdotal contributions from his high school friends and an interview with his parents.
Internet Surpasses Television as Main News Source for Young Adults
a study from the Pew Research Center
Tweet counts have increased from 5,000 daily in 2007 to 90 million daily in 2010, while Facebook () went from 30 million users in 2007 to more than 500 million users today
With APIs, you let other developers do your R&D for you. The benefit? You get development at scale with minimal investment. You effectively outsource risk because failures don’t cost you anything.
It’s easy to envision how brands whose core business revolves around technology or data could make use of an API
By providing access to that value through an API, they would allow the delivery of that value to spread exponentially.