That Matthew Taylor is so, like, out of touch. Here’s what he’s got to say about ‘Britain Thinks‘: “My slightly elitist concern that BritainThinks doesn’t encourage its participants to ask themselves whether their opinion is wanted, useful or soundly based is reinforced by the site’s slogan…. ‘if you’ve got an opinion, here’s where to stick [...]
Posts on ‘January 12th, 2010’
Poblish: How the semantic web can crowdsource high-quality judgment and improve policymaking.
My friend Andrew Regan contacted me after reading a recent post here in which I said that I’d like to be able to link to a good essay entitled ‘How the semantic web can crowdsource high-quality judgment and improve policymaking.’ He’s kindly offered to write it – in an extended serialised form – as part [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
