Much to my chagrin, I am missing Chapel Hill’s kick-ass annual Martin Luther King day protest, but I have a good reason: I am attending a national “working meeting” on local political information on the Internet organized by the Sunlight Foundation and Berkman Center at Harvard Law School.
Last night we enjoyed dinner and a brief-but-illuminating talk by Dave Weinberger. I hope to get a chance to post more thoughts later, but meanwhile you can read other bloggers’ coverage via the tag BerkmanSunlight. (Why they held this meeting on a holiday – not to mention such an important one at the local community level – I do not understand.)
Now, back to paying attention!
Great write ups of the morning session of state and local blogs by Ethan Zuckerman: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1186 and Dan Gillmor: http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/01/15/political-watchdogging
Well it’s after the fact, but I finally found some official information online about the event: http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/1637
Also, one of the participants started a wiki where you can see the schedule: http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Sunlight_Foundation_event_on_January_15th%2C_2007
Ruby: Great to meet you and learn about your efforts with OrangePolitics.org (and more!). I know that Front Porch Forum will benefit from what I learned at this event. I’ll continue to write about progress with our community-building service at http://frontporchforum.com/blog. Cheers! -Michael