Snippet by William Whyte, with an excellent voiceover. I really just love this.
December, 2009 Monthly archive
Reposted from an email.
**Researching eGovernment 2.0 requesting your participation**
The Kogod School of Business at American University and the National University of Ireland, Galway, are collaborating on a research project that investigates the value of federal government web sites. Professors Murray Scott and William DeLone are leading the project; they are particularly interested in the value created in recent initiatives designed to promote citizen engagement and participation.
The researchers would very much appreciate your support by following the link below and completing the survey. The survey should not take any longer than 15 minutes of your time and can be found at: http://govsurvey.nuigalway.ieThe researchers can be contacted with any questions or comments at murray.scott@nuigalway.ie or wdelone@american.edu
In the digital poetry class I TA’d this semester, one student made a “SoundStage” for his final project, inspired by his activity in an a cappella group. I’ve urged him to turn into an iPhone app. Pretty awesome.
Back here: Cumbe Mayo. Ancient limestone cliffs outside Cajamarca, Peru. Really high up (3,500 m). Best air I’ve ever breathed.
This is part of an email by M.S., my friend who has been Capuano’s webmaster for years…
If you’ve watched TV, listened to the news on the radio, read the paper in the past 2-3 months, you probably have not been able to escape knowing there is an election coming up.
It’s Tuesday, December 8th and it’s the primary for the special election to fill the US Senate seat left open by Ted Kennedy.
There are four people running for the Democratic nomination. My vote will be for U.S. Rep. Mike Capuano, and I ask you to do the same.
For me it’s an easy vote — I have worked for Mike’s congressional office since 2003 as his webmaster. I wouldn’t have stayed on without feeling like Mike shares the values I hold dear, or if I felt for a moment that he did not have the best interest of his constituency at heart.
But more than that, I think Mike is the most qualified of all the candidates to excel at the job of Senator. He has both executive and legislative experience, and at all levels of government — local, state, federal — and has excelled at each one. As a U.S. Representative in Congress for 11 years, he has taken thoughtful stands on issues from health care to civil liberties to financial service reform to ending the genocide in Sudan. He argues his stance on the issues vehemently, but listens to others and will change his mind if he thinks he’s wrong. Perhaps most importantly — whether you agree with him or not, you know where he stands. He does not hide from people and he will not make you guess what he thinks. Since I began working for him in 2003, I never saw time when Mike did not reach out to the people he represents to share his thoughts and get others’ input on all issues big and small.
The primary election is next Tuesday, December 8th. The winner will be victorious by a slim margin, every vote counts. So I urge you to come out to the polls next Tuesday, and cast your ballot for Mike Capuano.
P.S. If you’d like to know more about Mike, e-mail me or check his website, www.mikecapuano.com. To see what Mike has done so far in Congress, visit his congressional website at http://www.house.gov/capuano.
You know what I really like? Global simultaneity. For example, I like listening to byte.fm at night because I know that often my friend P. in Lima is listening to the same stream at exactly the same moment. I love live webcams for their ability to show other people and things in different places but at the same moment. I’m doing my freaking thesis on live streaming video from mobile phones because I find the whole thing fascinating.
Can we schedule something? Like Saturday at noon (EST), can we all sing the same song at the same time and dance around our respective kitchens, at least? You pick the song. I want to share a moment of transnational solidarity. Humor me, friends.
Cousin K. is starring in somebody’s music video…