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Weekly Wrap 7

24 July 2010 in Internet, Politics, Privacy, Sydney, Weekly Wrap by Stilgherrian | No comments

A weekly summary of what I’ve been doing elsewhere on the internets.

Articles

  • ‘Open Government’ declared in Australia for Crikey. Buried in the news just before the Australian election was called last weekend, Lindsay Tanner, the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, issued the Declaration of Open Government which had been called for by the Government 2.0 Taskforce. Someone ought to tell the Attorney-General’s Department.
  • Two other articles have been written but are still in the production pipeline, one for Crikey and one for ABC Unleashed. And I’ve been researching a 2000-word feature for ZDNet Australia. So I’ve been very busy, you just haven’t seen the output yet.

Podcasts

  • Patch Monday episode 49, “The software patent controversy explained” with guest Kimberlee Weatherall. She teaches intellectual property law at the University of Queensland.
  • A Series of Tubes episode 112, in which I chat with Richard Chirgwin about the Declaration of Open Government, the Privacy Commissioner’s findings on the Google Street View Wi-Fi incident, and how the Pirate Party fell at the first hurdle. Also, Internode’s John Lindsay explains the class action they and iiNet are involved with concerning Testra’s wholesale ADSL2+ pricing, and Steve Chung, consultant at Ruckus Wireless, talks about Wi-Fi privacy.

Media Appearances

[Photo: "Paddy Maguire's Hotel", at the corner of George and Hay Streets, Haymarket, Sydney, taken from a bus window on 23 July 2010.]

Notes on Obama’s election campaign

18 February 2010 in Internet, Media, Politics by Stilgherrian | 11 comments

[Last week, Australia's Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner wrote about Government 2.0 in The government wants to blog. Later today ABC Radio wants me to talk about how Barack Obama's presidential election campaign used social media and social networking, so I've been reviewing my liveblog of the presentations made by Ben Self at Media 09 and Joe Trippi at the Microsoft Politics and Technology Forum. Trippi has worked on various Democrat campaigns including as campaign manager for Howard Dean's 2004 unsuccessful presidential nomination campaign. Self's company Blue State Digital managed Obama's online fundraising, constituency-building, issue advocacy, and peer-to-peer online networking during the primaries. I figured I might as well share my notes. Enjoy.]

More than two years since Barack Obama’s presidential election campaign, the numbers are still staggering. $770 million was raised, roughly 65% of that online. There were 3.2 million individual donors, with the average donation under $100.

This is completely different from traditional political fundraising, which revolved about dinners and other events costing $2300 a ticket — the maximum unreportable donation donation allowable from a couple at that time under US electoral laws. Obama’s campaign really did reach out and mobilise millions of ordinary Americans.

Yes, millions. The progressive Democratic Party network is now 15 million people online.

Online social networking tools made all this possible, sure, but the success came through the clever application of those tools. The key word here is “personal”.

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Crikey logo

I’m in Crikey today, writing about yesterday’s Public Sphere forum Government 2.0: Policy and Practice and the launch of the Rudd government’s new Government 2.0 Taskforce. My article, free for all to read, is Government 2.0 Taskforce: first a logo design contest.

23 June 2009 by Stilgherrian | No comments

Yesterday’s Stilgherrian Live Road Trip was more a video thing that a liveblog, and if you really want to see all the fragments they’re online in unedited form over at Ustream. Today, however, I will be liveblogging properly — like, with actual content — from the Politics & Technology Forum, starting just before 9am Canberra time.

26 February 2009 by Stilgherrian | No comments

Live Blog: Politics & Technology Forum 2009

22 February 2009 in Internet, Politics by Stilgherrian | 4 comments

Photograph of Joe Trippi

This Thursday 26 February I’m liveblogging from Microsoft’s second Politics and Technology Forum in Canberra. This year’s theme is “Campaigning Online”.

Keynote speaker is Joe Trippi (pictured), heralded as the man who reinvented political campaigning thanks to his work on many US campaigns for the Democrats, and author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet and the Overthrow of Everything. He’s also a political analyst with MSNBC and much more, as his Wikipedia entry or Twitter stream reveal.

The political panellists are federal Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull (who tweets as @TurnbullMalcolm) and Labor’s Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Lindsay Tanner, who’s been pushing for better government use of technology for some time.

Our MC is Mark Pesce, who himself has covered similar topics in presentations like Hyperpolitics, American Style.

Bookmark this page, ‘cos the liveblog will start here at around 8.45am Canberra time on 26 February.

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Bonus Link Megamix for February (so far)

09 February 2009 in Daily Links by del.icio.us | No comments

Stilgherrian’s links for 01 February 2009 through 09 February 2009, collected in a great big lump because… well, just because.

There’s lots and lots of good material to read here, but I don’t want it to dominate my home page so they’re all over the jump.

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Links for 04 November 2008 through 09 November 2008

09 November 2008 in Daily Links by del.icio.us | 1 comment

Stilgherrian’s links for 04 November 2008 through 09 November 2008, gathered via Twitter and spat onto the page with love and some lemon juice and garlic: