Civics

Highly recommend Revolution 2.0, Wael Ghonim’s memoir of the events surrounding the 2011 Egyptian uprising and subsequent dismissal of president Hosni Mubarak.

San Francisco interim mayor and candidate Ed Lee used my ‘Fear the Stache’ creative for his new campaign rap video.

Infographic I created for FedScoop: ‘The Next CIO’ (my first infographic).

Melissa Blaustein wrote a post on open government and the San Francisco mayoral race for the Huffington Post and mentioned my work on SFOpen 2011.

The White House held a live chat discussion on federal .gov Website reform and, prior to the event, they asked citizens to submit questions via Twitter and Facebook.

Whether it was written out of naivete or for the intent of sensationalism, the other Vivek, Vivek Wadhwa, misses the mark in his Washington Post piece The death of open government.

I discussed SFOpen 2011 on Gov 2.0 Radio with Adriel Hampton and Allison Hornery.

CityCamp founder Kevin Curry writes on opensource.com how we made CityCamp an open source brand.

I.O.U.S.A. is a must-watch documentary explaining in simple terms the United States government’s financial woes. Seeing the fiscal incompetence of our political leaders will end up depressing or angering you. There’s a great clip of Congressman Ron Paul calling Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to the carpet. The visuals and graphics do an excellent job [...]

The latest animation from RSA Animate features Evgeny Morozov, blogger and author of the recently-published The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, and his talk The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?