Author: adrielhampton
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‘Open’ as Control – No to Facebook, No to Apple
I have a confession. I kinda loathe tech elites. Too many have the same privileged upbringing and attitude as the politicians and investment bankers who’ve helped revert the United States into the developed world’s grossest plutocracy. I don’t see uber-blogger rants about privacy and tech elites public spanking other tech elites very helpful at all…
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Radical Open Source Law Project Swings Through San Francisco
In a webinar about Gov 2.0 on Tuesday, publisher and conference convener Tim O’Reilly referred to Carl Malamud as the father of the Gov 2.0 movement. Wednesday, Malamud was in San Francisco at the Mitchell Kapor Foundation offices for the 10th in a series of 15 workshops he’s hosting around the country for his current…
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Lean Lessons for Gov
You might not think that local governments are primed to be hotbeds of innovation. Then again, you may not have heard of Manor, TX, a little town that’s repeatedly garnered attention from the White House for its innovative ways. And you may not have heard entrepreneur-turned-scholar Vivek Wadhwa give one of his frank talks about…
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Pillars of Gov 2.0: Social Media and Standards
I’ve been watching with interest as social media blogger extraordinaire Chris Brogan adapts his person brand from “social media guy,” to “human business guy.” Chris has been writing about effective news media strategy since long before it was a cottage industry, and many of his tips and probing questions center around the human component of…
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A (Western U.S.-centric) Cross Section of the Political Left on Twitter
A friend recently asked me for suggestions of political tweeps to follow, from center left to far left. From candidates to elected officials to activists, from school board to Congress, in no particular order (especially not on the “leftness” political scale), here’s what I came up with:@brontyman @moanasaves @tiffanyrenee @strategicfox;@pschurman @beraforcongress @strandedwind @garamendica10;@jariaskins @steed2010 @gostevengo…
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Win Free #g2e Conference+Workshop Passes from Gov 2.0 Radio
Maybe my Sunday question was too hard: we’ve got two passes to the Gov 2.0 Expo to give away, and all you need to do to enter is tweet @gov20radio with a link to your favorite Gov 2.0 Radio episode and why, and/or leave a substantive comment on a post at Gov20Radio.com. We’ll be awarding…
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Listen to Gov 2.0 Radio, Win Free Gov 2.0 Expo Conference+Workshop Passes
Tune in to Gov 2.0 Radio tonight, May 2 (starts at 9 p.m. ET) for a special call-in trivia contest to win a conference-plus-workshops pass Gov 2.0 Expo (our media partner) in DC later this month.And, if you’re not into contests but plan to go, check out Gov20Radio.com for our discount code and register by…
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#EmpireAve: I Got Your Whuffie Right Here
On a tip from Edmonton, AB CIO Chris J. Moore, I’ve been checking out Empire Avenue, a new social networking startup out of Edmonton (dear readers will recognize this particular physical space). Empire Avenue (#empireave) is a game built around trading people and Web sites as stocks, with additional value accrued by the online activity…
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Strike Back in the War for the Web: Government Portals 2.0
Just over a year ago, I wrote a post advocating local governments building their own Ning networks. I’m more convinced that ever that social portals are the future for local govs, and I’d like to see San Francisco embrace such an effort around its non-emergency 311 services center and capacity-building initiatives out of the Department…
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5/6 SF City Hall – Support OpenGov APIs
One of the most promising areas for open government efforts is cross-gov collaboration on standardized APIs, enabling interoperability of civic apps wherever one goes. From San Francisco to Edmonton, AB, city IT leaders and developers have been signing on to a key effort on this front – building out an Open311 API for access to…
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