Yesterday's sessions were fantastic. Enjoyed listening, learning and backchanneling -- a little frustrating not being able to pontificate. Some key takeaways:
- A year ago this week we had the first Happening, the term Emergent Democracy was coined and Joi flushed out his paper. Amazing to think how far this field has come in a short year.
- Incredibly encouraging to hear the practitioners like Trippi and Boyd well versed in growing body of work (post-by-post) of Emergent Democracy
- Reading between Trippi's comments, it seems he is starting a Unity Movement. A citizen funded PAC that can both mobilize resources against Bush, mediate technical transitions between campaigns and leverage an constituency. Note that Boyd said he isn't getting into blogs until after 2004 and there is lots of room for others. The Movement will move forward and be web-based.
- Some interesting talk about the barriers of transitioning open source developments between campaigns. Sure the source can shift, but its the people who have invested themselves in it that can be the barrier or the opportunity. Its actually harder to do than with vendors that have to serve anybody according to campaign laws.
- Some really good people from the different democratic campaigns were here confirming relationships to transition and work together. Co-opetition that will make a real difference.
- The blogging panel did focus on blogging as punditry too much, a perfect contrast to Joi and Ethan's panel which emphasized social use and the skinny tail of the power law.
- Good talk that there should be an Edemo event in Europe this year. Some major politicians in England and France are starting to blog, the Dean case popularized potential and it will have an impact upcoming elections.
- Good talk about the need to serve local politics
- Adina should run for office one day.
- Mike picked on an interesting difference between press and blog coverage.
Adding some links to what Doc has collected: Phil, Jeff Jarvis, The Eyeranian, Tim Oren, Scott Rosenberg, Joi Ito, JD Lasica, Justin Hall, Many2Many, Ross Mayfield, Jon Lebkowski, Danah Boyd, Plasticbag, Wired News, Techdirt, and the DDTI's own aggregation page. Also Moblogged.
