*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** Some recent highlights: 1. Netelection.Org <http://www.netelection.org> has a good analysis of the Internet and the presidential debates <http://netelection.org/commentary/2000030.php3>. Also see their recent opinion article <http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/opinion/unpub/powers.htm>. 2. The Democracy Online Project <http://www.democracyonline.org> announced their Rate the Candidates' Web Sites effort <http://democracyonline.org/mediacenter/oct42000release.shtml>. Their user guide <http://democracyonline.org/review/> is quite handy for anyone developing a candidate site. Mark December 4, 2000 on your calender for the Politics Online Conference <http://www.gspm.org/politicsonline/> in DC. 3. Also check out some the resources at Buying Time <http://www.buyingtime.org/> on political advertising, Duke's Web of Politics site <http://www.webofpolitics.com/index-1.htm>, Mike Cornfield's analysis for the Vanish Voter project on the role of the Internet at the Republican convention <http://www.vanishingvoter.org/releases/08-13-00internet-1.shtml>, and it might be interesting to compare women candidate web sites to each other and the sites for male candidates <http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/facts/Cand2000.html>. 4. And check out the in-depth article about the use of database software by campaigns and parties from the Washington Post <http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40787-2000Oct9.html>. I ran a local phone bank for a political party in 1990 and got a first hand sense about how technology was being used to influence individual voters. Building the "online public commons" is a direct reaction to that experience. Instead of using technology that quantifies citizens as factors in some master political equation, I am motivated by online applications that give citizens more power and a voice in democracy. Links Away! Steven Clift Democracies Online Newswire http://www.e-democracy.org/do P.S. I am about to send out the public DO-WIRE invitation I will ask each of you to send to at least three other people. Please start thinking of ways we can increase the membership base of this list from 1300 to 2000 subscribers by the end of 2000. ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - W: http://www.publicus.net Minneapolis - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - - - ICQ: 13789183 *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To unsubscribe instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** *** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. ***
