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Happy New Year. Democaster I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. Right now I am keeping busy with the launch of the second phase for http://democaster.org ... if you are involved with a community group or small local government in England and would like to try out open source-based audio webcasting with images drop me a note: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community Campaigning The virtual Advisory Group for the UK community campaigning effort will be reconvening on their new site in the near future - check out their new tool online campaigning tool which was just released: http://www.campaigncreator.org Los Angeles I'll be near LA visiting family starting late next week. On Tuesday, January 17, I'll be in LA proper and drop in on friends at the Center for Governmental Studies <http://www.cgs.org>. They have been involved with e-democracy in the U.S. as long as anyone. I might have time to connect with other e-democracy interested folks if you drop me a note: [EMAIL PROTECTED] News Items Some items that caught my eye that I blogged: http://dowire.org/notes/ BBC - Year of the Digital Citizen Saudi telecom stops text vote for Arab talent show - Yahoo! News Vermont political debate takes to cyberspace - Burlington Free Press e-Planning gets funding boost in UK And some from MN I haven't yet blogged: Facing suit, anonymous blogger lifts his mask A local lawsuit has the potential for breaking new ground in the legal issues associated with blogging. http://www.startribune.com/587/story/163827.html An e-mail string asks: Too many hats for Entenza? Internal DFL House caucus e-mail reveals some concerns about Minority Leader Matt Entenza's ability to juggle three roles this legislative and election year. http://www.startribune.com/587/story/166470.html ... One of the e-mailers on the string expressed frustration with the apparently frequent leakage of internal House e-mails to bloggers. "I've got $10 for anyone who can guess, to the closest half-hour, how soon this e-mail string gets published on Checks & Balances," wrote DFL Rep. John Lesch of St. Paul, referring to a site operated by Shawn Towle, who has been a DFL activist. "Let's have this discussion in a closed caucus. Just my suggestion." ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - - - W: http://publicus.net Minneapolis - - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - Skype/MSN/Y!/AIM: netclift Join Democracies Online: http://dowire.org Start an Issues Forum: http://e-democracy.org/if *** Past Messages, to Subscribe: http://dowire.org *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To UNSUBSCRIBE instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** New RSS XML Feed Available: *** http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@lists.umn.edu/maillist.xml
