Category: Government 2.0
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Web-Based Cartography, Power and Community-Building
We were interested in the news that the Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei recently signed a deal with TomTom, the Dutch digital mapping company, for an alternative to Google Maps. TomTom has been an often unsung but never ignored force in map applications. It has several self-branded products on iOS and Android devices. But Huawei will
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Big Data Makes for Big Sci-Fi Plots
We’re fans of science fiction, and its conversion into science fact, around here. Ray Bradbury has written that “science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world because it’s the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself . . . Science fiction is central to everything we’ve ever
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Huxley, Big Data, and the Artistic Mind
Imagine you’re a famous painter, but in an effort to get with the times, you crowd-source your newest painting. You make a nice big show of it, being creative in your soliciting of ideas, bringing people to your studio (and sharing the encounters on social media), maybe even hosting some focus groups to discuss themes,
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Big Data, Cops, and Criminality
In the short story and movie “Minority Report,” police in the future are authorized to arrest, and prosecutors to convict, people for the crimes they will (according to predictive technology) commit in the future. Although the thought of arresting, trying and convicting individuals for what they have not yet done seems far-fetched, the basic structural
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Constituent Communication Research: A Snapshot from Long Past
Political culture has changed a great deal, and this is not a “get off my lawn” post. In fact, as alienating and uncivil as much current political discourse seems, there’s a level of directness and candidness that earlier eras lacked, giving them a feel of artificiality and stuffy elitism. Take, for example, a research article
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Meeting Constituents’ Real Needs Means Innovating Constituent Tech
I’m thinking about technology, political culture, and constituent accessibility. What often appears to be a problem of political culture (staff blowing off certain constituents, young hotshot staffers not being able to relate to the challenges of elderly constituents, that kind of thing) might actually be a problem of technology (not having the right tools to
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Seniors See Expanded Benefits Under Bernie Sanders Medicare for All Plan
Sanders’ Medicare for All plan will greatly benefit seniors. Let’s look at how information companies are promoting falsehoods about Medicare for All. And how we can fight it.
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Sailing the Puget Sound and San Juan Islands
The first time I came out to Puget Sound was in my mid 20s. I was interviewing for a reporter position with the Tacoma News-Tribune. I marveled at the size of Mt. Rainier looming over the Sound. My hotel had a wooden deck that allowed me to walk out and look at the big moon
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Email marketing isn’t going away – better get yours right
guest post by Jeff Swift Email marketing is an incredibly resilient strategy. Despite regular predictions of its demise – often citing the advent of Facebook, Twitter, Google Wave (RIP), and now SnapChat – email simply isn’t going anywhere. People open their emails. They click on links in their email. And they are motivated to donate
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Is the wrong kind of data killing the Democratic Party?
Last week in Politico, Dave Gold, founding partner of the mail firm Bouchard Gold Communications, wrote that over-reliance on data models since Obama’s 2008 campaign has contributed to the epic fails of the Democratic Party: loss of 63 seats and control of the House, loss of 11 seats and control of the Senate, loss of 13 governorships,
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