January 28, 2005
The Jungle and Politics

As usual, this weblog only hints at what's going on in my life. A few crumbs dropped behind on a snowy day. But at a time of the year I'd be scheming madly to leave for Chiapas, the Peten, the jungle and the river, I've been trying to catch up with some of the politics and issues I've usually left behind.

The software that the Hackers for Dean, then DeanSpace, now CivicSpace have been steadily working on for the last couple of years is starting to come together. Just in time for me to learn how to use the new internet democracy tools.

CivicSpace Labs

We'll be using CivicSpace for a couple of projects, including a political campaign and the redesign of the Girls Club website. Eventually, it could form the basis of the Ave D community network.

I run into folks from this group all the time these days:

Personal Democracy Forum

And many thanks to Nicco Mele for his advice. His group in DC is doing some of the best work and publishing one of the most thoughtful sites on the web:

EchoDitto

And we'll still make it to the jungle this year.

Posted by Dave at January 28, 2005 12:19 PM