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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Blogging has been around for several years now and even with major advocates and early adopters, as for example Jason Calacanis, supposedly giving it up it still growing strong. With the rise of blogging a few years ago the Technorati “State of the Blogosphere Report” was established. In these more ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
On September 15th the Participatory Budgeting Unit, a project by the Church Action against Poverty, organized the first National PB conference in Manchester (UK). For a short introduction to the topic the PB Unit does explain Participatory Budgeting and the reasons why it should be done very well on their ...
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Some time ago we stated that PEP-NET would support OneWebDay which is an annual distributed event celebrating the achievements and potentials of the web and trying to raise awareness for issues which need to be addressed.
For the OWD which will be on Monday the 22nd of September PEP-NET ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
As the 2008 elections in the US are coming up and the social/political web is very much in motion and developing there is the need for a comprehensive overview of what general trends are going on right now in term of politics and the web.
Dr. Mark Drapeau has written and ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
It has been discussed on many different occasions how forms of electronic participation can help companies to keep in touch with their costumers, develop innovation and test products etc. The recent project MyStarbucksIdea showed how successful the use of eParticipation can be in such settings (a comprehensive article on this ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Almost all eParticipation projects are combinations of social methods and some sort of web based technology. At the BerlininJuly summit 2008 we discussed the aspect of open source technology for eParticipation which lead to some interesting thoughts and conclusions.
In many cases the persons developing these technologies want to share ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
As the German adaption of the new version of the Creative Commons licences has been launched today I would like to take a look at what is new about version 3.0. Creative Commons is in short to legally share, remix and reuse creative content or in the words of CC ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
On Wednesday June 9th we started the hot phase of the project BOP. This project aims at transferring the process of formal participation in urban planning to the internet. This kind of participation is mandatory in Germany – Every urban land-use plan etc. has to be public and the stakeholders ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
The American Republican Party (GOP) launched a site to gather comments and suggestions on policy issues by its supporters. The website is called Republican Platform Committee and allows everybody who is willing to register can participate in what the party describes as:
…seeking your input as we develop the policies ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The vast amount of different websites and services on the web seems to be impossible to categorize. Can we even call something like Google docs a website or is a more a less a piece of software running in a browser (which is an even broader term)? But there is ...
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