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Follow the Elections on '08 Conversations
Doug Kaye has turned the resources of the Conversations Network on the 2008 election with '08 Conversations. The idea is to team with the Public Radio Exchange to publish stories about the election you might not otherwise here. Joel... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 12, 2008 5:48 AM
Final: 2008 Utah State Republican Convention
Greg Curtis and John Valentine, House Speaker and Senate President(click to enlarge) I'm at the Utah State Party Convention this morning. There are literally thousands of people here. Traffic was backed up off the exit ramp near UVU (where... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2008 10:41 AM
True Grassroots Politics
I just got back from my precinct caucus meeting (Republican) where I was elected by my friends and neighbors as precinct Vice Chair for the coming two years. I was conducting the meeting as Chair. I love caucus meetings.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 25, 2008 10:51 PM
Utah Holds Caucuses Tonight: Change Congress
Utah will hold caucus meetings tonight for the purpose of selecting delegates to the county and state conventions. Your voice is amplified many times over by being part of the process that decides who's on the ballot rather than... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 25, 2008 7:15 AM
Utah Election and Caucus Information
Utah Capitol Building(click to enlarge) Utah will participate in the Super Tuesday presidential primary on February 5th (as do 23 other states). Then on March 25th, we'll hold the regular statewide caucus meetings to elect delegates to the state... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 23, 2008 8:56 PM
Pakistan is Iran 30 Years Ago
Here's a very informative--and scary--analysis from David Ignatius about how our experience in Iran 30 years ago ought to inform our interactions with Pakistan today.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 29, 2007 5:14 PM
Open Source: Locked Into Uncertainty
I was browsing the ZDNet blogs this morning and saw this ad: This caught my eye and I clicked through. The ad takes you to case studies from Microsoft, including one showcasing the State of Illinois' email consolidation project.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 1, 2007 10:52 AM
The Longtail of Banking
This article from the Economist on the unbanked doesn't use the term, but what they're talking about is th long tail of retail banking. I have a friend who, a while back, didn't have any bank accounts. His life... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 18, 2007 4:42 PM
All Your Base Are Belong to Us
In case you hadn't heard, Bill Gates is the new Secretary of Defense. Oh, wait...different Gates. All I can say is "it's about time." In fact, it's way past time. I don't care how smart he is or how... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 9, 2006 6:35 AM
Scary Voting
I just put an article up at Between the Lines on why electronic voting is scary.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 10, 2006 2:14 PM
Utah Senate Blog Is Effective eGovernment
The Utah Senate Site blog was featured in a story at Stateline.org. Joining the nation's growing proliferation of political Web logs, or blogs, the Utah site was the first of its kind to strike up a digital dialogue that... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 12, 2006 10:33 AM
Urquhart Out
If you've been paying attention to the newspapers, you've heard by now that Steve Urquhart has dropped out of the race. When we talked about him running last spring, we knew that November would be the first gate. If... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 14, 2005 6:04 PM
IIW2005: Doc Searls
Doc is leading out today giving a foundation for why identity matters. Markets are places where people meet to exchange things and make culture. Free markets are not "your choice of silo." Doc notes that the difference between "content"... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 10:09 AM
Technology, Public Policy, and Governance
The Register had an article on Friday about Urquhart's challenge to Hatch that categorized Urquhart as a "file-sharing, Republican blogger." That's a typical headline stretch since the file-sharing bit comes from a quote inside the article about file sharing... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 12, 2005 8:41 AM
Beating Hatch
It's no secret to most techies that Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah is no friend to the Internet. Some have described him, tongue-in-cheek, as the Senator from Disney--not because he's Mickey Mouse, but because he seems to represent Anaheim's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 20, 2005 8:12 PM
Challengers to Hatch
Sen. Orrin Hatch has made all kinds of enemies in the Tech community with his support for the DCMA and the INDUCE act. I've got a piece over at UtahPolitics.org on potential challengers to Hatch in the 2006 election.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 20, 2005 8:56 AM
UtahHouseMajority.com Debuts
The majority leadership of Utah's House has a group blog, UtahHouseMajority.com. The group also sports two individual blogging legislators, Steve Urquhart, Majority Whip, and Jeff Alexander, Majority Leader. Nice to see the interest in blogging by the Legislature. I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 14, 2005 2:14 PM
The New Hackers of Democracy
For anyone who is interested in eGovernment or eDeomcracy, Doc Searls has a nice piece on the new hackers of democracy over at LinuxJournal. In the article, Tom Adelstien makes a good case for Republican's being the torchbearers of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 6, 2004 9:43 PM
Offshore Outsourcing and Utah
The Utah Technology Commission was the focus of the latest round of offshore outsourcing hysteria last week. The Deseret News reported on the meeting. Seems that the Dept. of Workforce Services contracted with a company to do customer service... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 26, 2004 8:15 AM
DDTI: Effective Political Blogging
Effective Political Blogging panel Doc Searls, Halley Suitt, Mitch Radcliffe, Cameron Barrett, and Dave Weinberger are doing a panel on effective political blogging. Cam is talking about his efforts to help the Clark campaign. Clark's blog has the ability... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 9, 2004 1:09 PM
DDTI: The Influentials
Jonas Seiger, Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet at GWU is presenting some interesting statistics on the nature of people accessing political web sites. The survey was done using pop-ups and telephone surveys. The people had to have visited... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 9, 2004 12:15 PM
DDTI: Trippi Keynote
Trippi delivers his keynote address to several standing ovations Its a mistake for anyone to buy into the spin that's coming out the broadcast media. They didn't understand what was happening before, why should they understand now? Broadcast democracy... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 9, 2004 10:27 AM
The Power of the Penguin
Netcraft is an online tool that lets you determine what Web server/OS combination a Web site is running. Doc Searls used it to compile a list of the Web server/OS combinations of the Presidential candidates. Not surprisingly, Republicans are... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 27, 2004 8:35 AM
Political Machine in a Box
Last Sunday, Everett Ehrlich asked "What will happen when a national political machine can fit on a laptop?" The piece echos some of the information I've posted recently on connected democracy. The article plays off an interesting theory by... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 17, 2003 5:28 PM
Republican Hackers
Doc's put out a call for Republican hackers for a story he's doing for Linux Journal. He's actually a bit more particular than just wanting people who program and belong to the Grand Old Party---he's looking for anyone working... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 25, 2003 8:47 PM
So Far, Participatory Democracy for Democrats Only
Esther Dyson wrote a piece for the New York Times last week called Power in Participation about some recent trends in politics involving the Web and blogs. She mentions MeetUp.com, a Web site for that helps organizes physical meetings.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 20, 2003 8:22 AM
TechnoVolunteers
I read something on John Patrick's weblog this morning that reminded me of an experience I had. John makes the point that non-profits need IT expertise and discusses his experience with the United Way: Today started out with a meeting... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 30, 2002 8:33 AM