The Left has no monopoly on internet organizing; the tools don't care who uses them. Tea Partiers can learn from Obama just as much as anyone else can.
Holly Hamann | Posted 12.15.2009 | Denver
What person in their right mind would quit their job during the worst economy since the Great Depression?
Brady Westwater | Posted 12.08.2009 | Los Angeles
Two of the most important decisions any of us ever make is where we decide to live and what job we choose to accept. Rush hour traffic, however, proves how wrong we all can be.
Rachel Sterne | Posted 11.26.2009 | Impact
A fascinating experiment in digital philanthropy is brewing at Robin Hood Foundation, a New York City charity that has raised more than $1 billion for poverty-focused nonprofits.
GroundReport | Posted 11.25.2009 | Impact
Over the past two months, a skunkworks team of young internet influencers has met, brainstormed, emailed and twittered -- all in the pursuit of feeding more than 100,000 of the city's hungry.
Jonathan Fields | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books
A few years back, proving your platform meant whipping out your big black book of press clipping. You know, the ones that proved you could get into the media at will. Not any more.
Huffington Post | Posted 12.15.2009 | Technology
Watch the Web 2.0 Expo live through our curated Twitter lists. Do you know a tweeter who's perfect for one of these lists? Email us at twitterlists@hu...
Telegraph | Posted 10.19.2009 | Technology
Last month we listed 50 things being killed by the internet. Now here's a selection of the trends we wish could be consigned to the waste bin - the mo...
Rob Kall | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
Crossposted from OpEdNews.com Every change in communications medium causes big changes in culture, since cuneiform, then writing were introduced. Em...
Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media
One of the goals of Gov 2.0 is to increase citizens' power over their own lives by participating in their own governing.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
While many have quickly lamented URB's print hiatus or reminisced about our long legacy, there is also an unfortunate feeding frenzy on even the hint of print's presumed, imminent demise.
Karthika Muthukumaraswamy | Posted 11.28.2009 | Media
Social media portals are changing the ways in which companies are doing business, thanks to one-on-one interactions between consumers and employees.
Ef Rodriguez | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver
Though they may not get the whole fuel efficiency thing, Ford gets social media.
Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media
Bills are crowdsourced already. Lobbyists, lawyers, legislative assistants, and others have their pens out -- and their contributions, unlike Wikipedia editors', go unattributed and unnoticed.
New York TImes | Posted 11.14.2009 | Technology
There is no turning back the clock. We now have more public opinion exerting pressure on politics than ever before. The question is how it may be chan...
Barrett Brown | Posted 11.11.2009 | Comedy
YouTube, like the Internet at large, is what the Holy Land would have been like during the Crusades if everyone in the Holy Land had too much free time on their hands.
Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media
I've tried to look at three separate agencies and look at ways that the government can either provide data or amalgamate it and present it in ways that citizens would find useful.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment
In the documentary We Live in Public, director Ondi Timoner focuses on an experiment in which 100 people were shut into a Soho, NY basement with all the comforts of home, plus 24/7 surveillance.
Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media
The achievable goal of G21 policies and practices is to shift information (and thus power) from governments, corporations, and groups, to individuals.
Tim O'Reilly | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Can government become a platform of, for and by the people?
Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media
The launch of the iPhone App store--more than the launch of the iPhone itself--could be a demarking point between 20th and 21st century governance.
Gadi Ben-Yehuda | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media
When I talk to others who work at the intersection of government and the Web, everyone uses the term "Gov 2.0." I've started using the term "G21," which better defines our mission.
W. David Stephenson | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media
Crafting an effective strategy to productively involve the general public in homeland security should center on two technologies: mobile communication devices and Web 2.0 social media.
Scott Lachut | Posted 09.08.2009 | Living
Particularly in the case of social media, when taken together the multitude of eternal digital data forms a history of a person's life.
Daniel Dworkin | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business
The crowdsourcing technology market is quickly becoming saturated and each app has its own unique use. Here's the best of what's out there.
Colin Delany | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics