I have a slight buzz from dinner, but that doesn't stop me from reading e-mail while Steve reads Jonah one last story. One message came from a neighborhood contact. It was an on-line petition to stop the routing of planes from Newark airport over our airspace. Don't tell me that the Internet isn't a major boon for participation. You gotta check out Petitions On-line.
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Yochai Benkler delivered a talk on exactly this kind of social organizing through the Internet at GWU a couple of weeks back.
Posted by: Henry Farrell | May 31, 2007 at 11:08 PM
Henry, was his speech posted on-line?
Posted by: laura | June 01, 2007 at 10:11 AM
OK, I just have to say it: If Robert Putnam saw this would he call it "polling alone"?
Posted by: Sam Crane | June 01, 2007 at 01:24 PM
Sam - Thanks for the big, fat, geeky laugh.
Posted by: laura | June 01, 2007 at 03:12 PM