[Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2007 in New York] Seth Godin – a marketing blogger who’s doing a very amusing talk with lots of good sound bites and funny slides, mostly arguing that politicians need to be aware of the paradigm shift […]

[Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2007 in New York] The digital divide is getting worse. Ten years ago companies etc weren’t all networked. In ten years everyone in power has massive network access, but the disadvantaged still have next to none. But […]

Farouk Olu Aregbe started the Facebook group One Million Strong for Barack. I just had a look at it and see it’s now at 322,483 members. They’re working at actually activating these members by getting them to come to events and to […]

[Notes from her talk at the Personal Democracy Forum 2007 in New York] A lot of the things that we take for granted in physical publics don’t transfer to the net – for instance, presence. Politicians use physical presence – but online, […]

Thomas Friedman, author of The World Is Flat and columnist for the New York Times. This is a sampler from three new chapters he’s adding to the latest version of the book.

Yochai Benkler is the author of the influential book Wealth of Networks, and is speaking fast for a short time.

The number of Americans using the internet for news and information has grown nine- or tenfold in the last ten years. 21 mill. haev used political videos (Feb 2007), 75 million used the internet in connection witht he political campaign of 2004. […]

They’ve set up a nice little interview thing on stage, with Thomas Friedman from the New York Times and Eric Schmidt from Google sitting across from each other with a little IKEA table between them and a soft Persian carpet underneath them. […]

I didn’t recognise Lawrence Lessig at all when he walked onto stage, although I’ve seen photos of his face many times. He’s young, dressed all in black, and his body language reminds me of my brother-in-law. I don’t know why, but I’d […]

I just arrived in New York for the Personal Democracy Forum conference tomorrow. I’m staying at Cosmopolitan Hotel, which is very close to the conference, reasonably priced (for New York) and had good reviews on Tripadvisor. My “mini-loft” may take a little […]