Category Archives: NationBuilder
People from 26 Countries on the list for NationBuilder
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, UK, US, and Zambia.
Wow.
Imagining White House 2.0
This is the full-text of my “Imagining White House 2.0″ presentation for the Personal Democracy Forum conference.
that was just one of the marijuana questions that ranked highly on all three of obama’s online forums. much of the dialogue since then has been about how to prevent this “gaming” of the system.
well, gaming [...]
How do you deal with competitors in open systems?
I’m struggling at White House 2 with how to make a multi-partisan, yet still collaborative, site work.
The core problem is that there are two very different types of people involved in U.S. politics, people who want government to work, and people who don’t. Please don’t take this as a knock [...]
Kevin Kelly on the Global Collectivist Society
Kevin Kelly has a big piece in the latest Wired that pretty much nails what I’m working on with NationBuilder. “The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online”
The article is a must-read, but I wanted to comment on one piece of it, as it is directly relevant to the problem NationBuilder is trying [...]
NationBuilder is open-sourced and available on github
All the code for NationBuilder/White House 2 is now available via an MIT License at github. It is written in Ruby on Rails 2.2.2 and still in very active development. Installation instructions are in the README file, feel free to fork it and send me your pull requests.
NationBuilder is a radical and fun new [...]
Making the Future
I’m getting ready to launch NationBuilder in the next month or two, so I’m starting my blog back up and even giving it a name — Make the Future. The name comes from Carl Pope, the long-time leader of the Sierra Club. In This Brave Nation, a documentary series we made at [...]
