Please join me in a conversation with Joe Trippi about his book, "The Revolution Will not be Televised." We will stream it live at Of, By, and For, this Friday the 24th at 2:00pm Pacific time.
As you might know, Trippi built the Dean for America campaign and started rewriting the rules for American politics using the Internet. I found Joe's book enjoyable and filled with many good and important ideas on how to begin revitalizing our democracy.
Those of you who know me understand I have always had an active interest in politics and in 1990 along with John Perry Barlow founded EFF to help begin to understand the intersection between the Bill of Rights and cyberspace.
Over the last couple of years, I thought it vitally important to once again venture into the political realm. We must begin to revitalize our democracy and restore our republic. I think the Net has matured to the point it could play a big role in helping do just that, but I also think we are deficient in the ideas concerning politics in the 21st century. I want to help start a discussion.
So, if you're Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian, Green, or none of the above come join us at Of, By, and For this Friday to begin a discussion on the politics of the future.
Posted by mitch@osafoundation.org at September 20, 2004 05:00 PMmitch,
i'm sorry i missed your discussion and will listen in now. i'd love to talk further about how the internet and blog world can get more organized in leading and enabling the people's movement that trippi and so many of want so badly. i believe that our democracy will be saved and propelled if we can offer people better means of VOICE and CHOICE. i refer to this movement as the revolution of the ants.
i have been working on an idea called eparty.org (no site yet) to offer a web based platform that would work like ebay to enable fragmented groups to find each other in order to hear their voices and expand their choices.
the input of technology visionaries like yourself would be enormously valuable to this effort.
best,
mark
Posted by: mark pincus at September 29, 2004 04:32 PM
Mitch, I used Lotus Agenda in the 1980s and found it invaluable. I have never before nor since had a piece of software that was so helpful to my personal/business organizing of random thoughts, telephone conversations, etc. The problem was that Agenda kept crashing, and eventually Lotus stopped offering the product and stopped supporting it. Here I am 15+ years later still wishing Agenda existed in a reliable format. Out of frustration over the lack of an easy vehicle for storing and retrieving data, I went to my software shelf and saw the Agenda software box. Once again, I longed for Agenda. What is the story on Agenda's demise? It was a great concept.
Sincerely,
Richard Allen
Posted by: Richard Allen at November 4, 2004 11:08 AM