Personal Democracy Forum 2008 Reviews
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By: John Sebes
on Jun 29 2008 at 04:12 PM PDT
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Good work on 2 days
A review of the conference overall
Excellent across the board - kudos to Andrew and Micah and team. Special thanks to providing Larry Lessig with a forum for his exceptional call to action for ChangeCongress. Also, a very good call on going to 2 days, and theming one about the electoral process and one about governing. Lets see more next year on progress on sunlighting government and creating participation, as well as a similar focus on sunlighting the electoral process and increasing participation there as well. -- John Sebes Open Source Digital Voting |
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By: Salim Ismail
on Jun 27 2008 at 10:19 PM PDT
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one of the best speakers ever
A review of the session "The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It"
Jonathan is not to be missed. Funny, insightful and extremely provocative |
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By: Salim Ismail
on Jun 27 2008 at 10:17 PM PDT 
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Really great conference
A review of the conference overall
Micah and Andrew really nailed it with this one. Not often I get my head spun, but here it spun a bunch of times. Some amazing presentations |
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By: Lisa McAvoy
on Jun 27 2008 at 08:19 PM PDT
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Excellent conference
A review of the conference overall
I hope you all do it again next year. The content and level of speakers was, overall, very impressive. There were some hits and misses, but that is always the case. Overall, a very good two days. |
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By: Ricardo Amado Castillo
on Jun 25 2008 at 10:09 AM PDT
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The second day was much better
A review of the conference overall
Hi, I would say that the content of most of first day speeches were too vague. I had the impression that trying to cover too many topics, nothing was treated with relevant depth. The second day was different, and most of the conferences added value and substance. The "Community" functionality through the site platform was not particulary great as most of the people didn't update their profiles. Best, Ricardo |
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By: Eric Grant
on Jun 24 2008 at 09:55 PM PDT
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Classic East Coast
A review of the conference overall
The conference attendees, speakers, panelists, and moderators were great. So A+ for people! The venue was a bit lacking - great for a speaker or a concert, but not for a two-day event. Definitely not enough power (many were driven to the back of the room) for a tech conference, and the video policy / usher police did not inspire a participatory feeling. Speaking of participation, my main critique is that the conference was not nearly participatory enough. The live question app was underutilized by participants but even moreso by moderators, and the conversion to the twitter backchannel capitalized on a tech in heavy use, but was also underutilized by moderators. |
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By: Sarah Granger
on Jun 24 2008 at 09:46 PM PDT
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Great people
A review of the conference overall
Thanks - I enjoyed the event. |
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By: Vanessa Scanfeld
on Jun 24 2008 at 09:29 PM PDT
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great conference
A review of the conference overall
This conference was put together thoughtfully, with a good balance of plenary and breakout sessions. The speakers were insightful, as were the attendees. The organizers clearly really cared about how the conference was going, were flexible, willing to experiment, and excited to highlight new technologies. What more can we ask for? |
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By: Lou Klepner
on Jun 24 2008 at 08:09 PM PDT
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Loved it!
A review of the session "Design Principles for Online Democracy: Connecting Government and Constituents in the Internet Age"
Wish we had more time! |
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By: Katherine Watier
on Jun 24 2008 at 08:07 PM PDT
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Biology's influence on online behavior
A review of the session "Hyperpolitics: What Happens When We Are All Connected"
I love this kind of analysis. |
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By: Mr Paul Downey
on Jun 24 2008 at 06:17 PM PDT
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Elizabeth is Savvy
A review of the session "A Conversation with Elizabeth Edwards"
so, as a Brit, I was unaware of Elizabeth, and to a part, her husband, John Edwards, but was blown away by such a cool lady exhibiting great awareness of the social Web, in particular her musings on celebrity and Facebook, and all this over a flaky Skype video connection. Fun when John came home to face 1000+ people in his living room. |
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By: Katherine Watier
on Jun 24 2008 at 03:25 PM PDT
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Brilliant presenter and mind
A review of the session "Open Data, Open Government"
I'm a dork. After studying Lessig in school, it's great to see him live. |
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By: Mr. Oliver Zeisberger
on Jun 24 2008 at 02:43 PM PDT
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Great Conference!
A review of the conference overall
Coming over all the way from Germany was a good thing. Great networking great presentations and discussions! Will be here again next year. Would love more content that reflects on what is happening outside the US internationally. ;-) |
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By: Marco Pardi
on Jun 24 2008 at 01:55 PM PDT
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Lessig never disappoints
A review of the session "Open Data, Open Government"
Thought-provoking, hilarious, and right on. Awesome talk. |
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By: Salim Ismail
on Jun 24 2008 at 01:43 PM PDT
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Good, but more visuals pls
A review of the session "The New Renaissance"
Really interesting discussion, but would have been better with more slides |
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By: Jon Mandell
on Jun 24 2008 at 01:25 PM PDT
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Lessig = awesome
A review of the session "Open Data, Open Government"
great talk, great presentation |
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By: Vanessa Scanfeld
on Jun 24 2008 at 09:01 AM PDT
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goodbye to extraction culture
A review of the session "Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential"
presented an interesting challenge to replace industrial language with empowerment language when discussing the (potential) power of the internet. i hadn't thought about the industrial "extraction" culture filtering in to the online universe, but it's true that it has. it may be partly semantic, but also reflects the way we think - so thanks for pointing it out. |
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By: Ken Laureys
on Jun 23 2008 at 10:01 PM PDT
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in the 80th percentile so far
A review of the conference overall
Half way through, I am very satisfied. Definitely worth the money and travel just for day one alone :-) |
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By: Mr. John Breyault
on Jun 23 2008 at 09:29 PM PDT
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Good review of openness issue
A review of the session "Profiles in Anti-Competition"
This was a good review of openness issues and the actions of corporate gatekeepers to keep out competitive services and devices. Not sure what Hodder added, aside from the entertainment of finding out that she did indeed have photos of herself on the Internet. |
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By: Salim Ismail
on Jun 23 2008 at 02:58 PM PDT
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Really great visualizations
A review of the session "Visualizing the Political Blogosphere"
Anthony presented a number of ways of showing and tracking how blog posts ripple through the blogosphere visually. In particular, a post by Jeff Jarvis rippled right through really fast. Very cool stuff! |
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By: Eric Mill
on Jun 23 2008 at 02:46 PM PDT
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Fertile Ideas
A review of the session "Data Geeks Unite! Building the new tools for getting out the vote, getting out the corruption, and going hyper-local"
This was the most thought provoking and inspiring session, as it became clear just how much work there is to do on making governmental and democratic practices open, timely, and honest. I came away feeling very motivated, and enjoyed most of the speakers here. My only complaint would be that Catalist's section of the talk felt more like an advertisement, or at the least an unnecessary lesson on how to use their software, than a talk. |
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By: Mr. Jordan Schroder
on Jun 23 2008 at 02:41 PM PDT
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Meaning over Metrics
A review of the session "Come Together Now: The Internet's Still Unrealized Potential"
Really liked the tone of her talk. It will be all too easy for us to get lost in dataset and visualization forgetting the meaning of metrics. A great speaker, and I look forward to reading more of her thoughts online and in any books she's written. |
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By: Salim Ismail
on Jun 23 2008 at 11:09 AM PDT
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Ariana - totally rocks
A review of the session "A New Media System? Or Old Wine in New Bottles?"
Humor, insight and not scared of saying what's so... loved it. So goddamn refreshing |
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By: Jon Mandell
on Jun 23 2008 at 09:59 AM PDT
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both sides
A review of the session "A New Media System? Or Old Wine in New Bottles?"
at least the 2 sides agree, internet good for democracy |
