I've co-founded and am contributing to a web site and group blog, Of, By, and For, exploring politics-not-as-usual. We're using Civic Space as a platform, as is Joe Trippi's Change for America site.
The common conviction is that there is an urgent need to change a political system is not working. We need a new architecture of citizenship and real democratic reform. Thomas Jefferson meets the Internet, again.
Check it out.
Posted by mitch@osafoundation.org at July 02, 2004 08:29 AMOh, no! Not you! Mitch, you're leftist quasi-liberal, too?!? What a God damn disappointment!
So no chance Chandler gets ever finished...
Too bad.
Posted by: Jackie at July 2, 2004 06:17 PM
Fair warning: I'm going to delete any further partisan comments, pro or con. Take them elsewhere.
Posted by: Mitch Kapor at July 2, 2004 06:37 PM
So partisan comments in response to a partisan main post aren't allowed?
Posted by: Mark at July 5, 2004 02:16 AM
Right, partisan comments on either side of the issue are off topic. The fact is, if I let comments run freely there would be a mix of supportive and critical ones which I thought in the end would be a distraction in this context.
I'm exercising editorial discretion, as is a completely normal and desirable practice for blogs. The topic here is about Chandler and open source software. As a courtesy to readers many of whom who I know have an interest in things I am working on and because as the author of the blog I wanted people to know, I was creating a link.
And, to boot, I left up the one comment which did come and which was a negative one, rather than deleting it, and disabling comments entirely. I actually thought about what a reasonable balance of editorial contorl and free expression would be in this context.
Posted by: Mitch Kapor at July 6, 2004 03:50 PM