The Agenda

Since its launch at high noon U.S. eastern standard time on January 20, 2009, I have been continually drawn to the Obama administration's version of the Whitehouse website. Given the fact that this administration truly embraces all aspects of social tech and can be viewed in the true sense of "2.0", it is not surprising to see a very effective tool being presented in the site.

Many more aspects should be exploited within the site including more aspects of interactive social / community engagement, perhaps some additional communication options and I'm sure others have additional wishlists. Overall, kudos on a great start.

I feel compelled to hone in on perhaps the most important area of the site to examine, track, and engage with as this administration moves forward. The Agenda section lays out the game plan. In my opinion, this needs to be delved into by all citizens interested in engaging with the process.

Blogitate on that for a while. Perhaps time to fire up a separate blog series to track the Agenda and how it progresses.

A Drive By

My 82 year old mother was having a bad case of "curiosity killed the cat" yesterday. Here in Dallas 1/21/09 - the day after history was made - was beautiful with a sunny 75 degree temperature. We went for a drive about to satisfy mom's curiosity. Yes, we drove to 10141 Daria Place - the new home of our newest neighbors - President George W. Bush and Laura.


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As we approached the neighborhood is covered in yard signs "Welcome Home George and Laura". The drive into the the cul-de-sac'd neighborhood was filled with anticipation for both of us. Would we be stopped and turned around? Would we succeed in our quest. Much to our surprise, not a single uniformed officer or any sign of police presence existed. Only sign of activity was one lonely Secret Service man standing in the driveway chatting away with a neighbor and a big wave of welcome over to our greetings at him.

Needless to say, this openess will soon disappear as the security gates at the neighborhood's entrance are erected and the neighbors themselves settle into a new normal for their formerly quiet domiciles.

Mom has now had her curiosity satisfied and that's a good thing.

Welcome home to the Promise Land

President W and Laura - welcome back home to the promise land. Congratulations - you did good work and the years of reflection now begin.

For anyone interested, the work now begins on the next Bush chapter as the Library project kicks into gear.

Hope to see you around the neighborhood Mr. President.

Welcome Home

Yes WE .......

Yes We Might
Yes We Can
Yes We ........

Congratulations Mr. President

Keep the astounding orchestration of We The People tech rolling. Engage this American phenomenon into Yes We Do and Yes We Did.

Fight to keep the Barry-Berry so you can stay in touch with We The People.

Its Gadget Blogitation Time

Enough already with politics and bailouts. Its CES, Macworld, and International Auto Show recap time and it seems alot more fun and perhaps productive to blogitate on the innovation and toys for a while. Let's make this a first in series thread with the possibility of minor off track interruptions back into other subjects as they surface.


Pico projection - has a ton of possibilities

a couple exist on Amazon already. Samsung has an actual phone on the market in Korea with pico display capability. When will we see iPicoPhone Steve? Perhaps it will be a PicoBerry or a PalmPreco. Seems like the applications of pico projection and the implications of personal portable large screen display will be nearly limitless in the near term. Check out the Samsung phone video for a real taste of what's to come.





Prediction: By 2011 a whole new era of media "piconomics" will emerge with most kids pico projecting and all phones and portable media players worth their salt featuring pico dlp engines on-board. Stay tuned.

Ok its 09

I am done hyperventilating about the bailout bananzas.

The takeaways:

- people's voices can be profoundly heard up on the hill in this digital age
- the Federal (and probably state/local) infrastructures need to beef up for digital mass discourse
- the key questions of bailout 1.0 to date - is it working? where the heck did the money go?

The next administration will do well to continue engagement of the people's voices as it so skillfully mastered during its campaign. The people's eyes and ears should be appropriately engaged for scrutinizing bailout 2.0 (2nd half of 1.0) and bailout 3.0 (the President-elect's new programs). Change.gov and its successors are truly revolutionary next steps in the advancement of this democracy.

While last year and, most likely, this year have many downsides in our economy, society, and world stage conflicts, we should all pay close attention to the very key seeds of societal re-engagement in the process of governing and participation in this digital age.