I sometimes use the description of the internet as being very like a teenager, messy, difficult, and creative and with a tremendous energy and excitement that is not always focused constructively. The shifting cultural norms online feel as if they are driven by that generation and it’s not surprising – anyone born after 1993 has …
Just got home from the Listening to Communities Conference at Kent and wanted to capture my thoughts on it as its been a really interesting day. There is a posterous site coming together around it so I recommend you have a look there at what people put up over the next few days. the conference was organised …
Bit of a change of pace as this is a note from an event I was at last week – normal academic service will resume soon (am reading The Myth of Digital Democracy so that you don’t have to….). I wrote this while at Hamburg Airport waiting for a delayed flight home and thought I’d …
You have all been too polite to ask but some of you may have been wondering what has been happening with the Virtual Town Hall project that kicked all of this off. This post is intended to explain where are with the project and why things have been rather quiet. We have been making some …
I was at the LGA Annual Conference last week and just wanted to capture a couple of observations from it. Firstly, I found it genuinely inspiring to spend time with a group of people who, whatever their motivations or political convictions, are deeply committed to helping their communities – and I hope that we continue …