Personal Democracy Forum 2008

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Speakers:	Zephyr Teachout
Date:	Monday, June 23, 2008 8:40 AM - 9:00 AM
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Location:	Rose Theater

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By: Vanessa Scanfeld on Jun 24 2008 at 09:01 AM GMT	goodbye to extraction culture presented an interesting challenge to replace industrial language with empowerment language when discussing the (potential) power of the internet. i hadn't thought about the industrial "extraction" culture filtering in to the online universe, but it's true that it has. it may be partly semantic, but also reflects the way we think - so thanks for pointing it out.
By: Mr. Jordan Schroder on Jun 23 2008 at 02:41 PM GMT	Meaning over Metrics Really liked the tone of her talk. It will be all too easy for us to get lost in dataset and visualization forgetting the meaning of metrics. A great speaker, and I look forward to reading more of her thoughts online and in any books she's written.

• Joel Richman on Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential:
• Salim Ismailsalim on Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential: test
• Mr. Sanford Dickert on Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential: After an opening from Andrew and Micah, discussing to the incremental changes that are "reinventing government that is co-creating government with the wisdom of crowds".
  Zephir Teachout, Director of Internet for Dean 04
  [Ed Note - wow - Z looks great. New style!]
  "Great Internet Poet - Walt Whitman" ...
• Ms, Kathy Gill on Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential: Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential
  Zephyr Teachout (Howard Dean '04)
  "industrial" language
  v
  "democratic" language
  distribute power, not tasks
  not mobilization, but organization
  model of american associations
  this was seen as the main american innovations
  de toqueville
  thu ...
• Robin Barrett on Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential: Industrial - how we distribute tasks - leverage technology - the brilliance of using technology and extracting insights in
  Democratic - how we leverage people. Build architecture where people build power.
  as of 1955 5% of people were presidents of organization have an access of power to change and ...
• Mr. Jordan Schroder on Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential: Really liked the tone of her talk... important to focus on meaning as much as metrics.
• Mr. John Breyault on Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential: Zephyr Techout: There's almost a terrifying amount of power in this room.
  We collectively have so much power in deciding what we value.
  Two different ways of discussing Internet politics:
  1) Industrial
  Mass, efficiency, cleverness in extracting resources are praised.
  Ex: 1 million ppl on Facebook for ...
• David GalielDavid_Galiel on Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential: Hanna arendt - the capacity for every person to begin new
  Walt Whitman "great internet poet" never better time to begin than now
  The future we create will largely be a result of the things we choose to value
  - industrial viewpoint/language vs democracy viewpoint/language
  -industrial - mass, efficienc ...
• Mr Paul Downey on Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential: Come Together reminds me of the great DJ Earworm mashup.
• Suzanne England on Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential: Doug Rushkoff. Personal democracy is an oxymoron. Individualism. After the Renaissance people became hearers, not writers. Metaphor of program in the culture. Writing is fun, the real task is to participate in programming. Opportunity is not to become part of the Obama administration. People we put ...

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