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By: Brian Cartwright

Brian Cartwright — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:08:22 +0000

The fact that there is a “Blog” button at the top of the change.gov website is, I think, an enormous signal. Part of “the change we need” is a mechanism for genuine citizen input, like the electronic town meeting that was discussed, was it in the 2000 election? or earlier? The Obama campaign was *not* easy to get to with suggestions and input, but this looks new.

Is there a model for screening out flamers that is worthy of a blog that is a function of the White House? Not dissent or debate, just idiots and obstructionists?

By: Conor Kennedy

Conor Kennedy — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:12:23 +0000

It’s certainly an interesting idea, and I think if they screened comments or only opened certain blog posts up for comments, this would be workable.

In any case, someone would need to draft up a proposal. I don’t think the administration would spend a ton of time thinking about this, but they might consider it if someone spoon fed it to them with a plan that either counters or works around the major risks.

(Just in case: http://change.gov/page/s/conta.....ct)

By: Pablo Manriquez

Pablo Manriquez — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:57:14 +0000

Why not an “Off the Bus” style blog platform hosted at a dot gov site, perhaps through the Library of Congress? This way, ordinary Americans (and “superior thinkers”) could blog and comment in a centrally edited online publication marketed, and eventually utilized, as an historical document in the public domain.

Also, like the HuffPost, the most-poignant “Joe Sixpack” contributions could be featured on the landing page and in the emails to subscribers alongside the more-carefully written “official” posts by in-house administration staffers.

To wit–
blog.gov? a national blog?

By: White House Connections

White House Connections — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:57:16 +0000

[...] David Weinberger asks a very good question: Can the White House blog? [...]

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Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:19:08 +0000

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By: marks.dk – Victory!

marks.dk – Victory! — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:46:50 +0000

[...] “Will he blog?“, David Weinberger asks – and says so himself that it’s a bit ambitious to hope so, but isn’t hope what this election was all about? It works for the Danish Prime Minister, so why not for the American President? All I hope for is that the Obama-Biden administration will be open and welcoming input from the American people in a way it has never been seen before. Change.gov already asks people to write their stories and send them in, so a facilitation of the possibilities the internet gives you is already underway, but I want to see them drive it all the way to the front. The technology is there – they just need to have the courage to open up and start the conversation. [...]

By: Hugh Davidson

Hugh Davidson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:32:52 +0000

Yes if you were mining for input it would seem like you would need a substantial system of organisation to allow for good ideas etc to be separated out from the bad.

The blog wouldn’t have to be standard – could utilise assisted analytical techniques as simple as thumbs up/down voting. Getting technical we might consider reputation based qualification for comments (reputation being earned in sub-systems or sub blogs debating the content like you might on a wiki and represented like multi aspect ebay ratings?).

Even more technical and interesting would be the use of multi criteria decision making tools to assist both the evaluation of user generated suggestions and content to ease this process and provide a potentially rich source of visually coded metadata in combination with reputation (as above) without great effort on the part of the system or the contributor. This rich visual metadata could help people navigate within the community.

Build the ultimate blog ecology!

In other words i think it could be done and it could be an amazing project. Maybe someone (with a heck of a lot of spare time) should build something and offer it up? I know i would love to design it!