Qui Diaz is director of strategy at Livingston Communications and specializes in social media for social causes. She proclaims ‘the good’ on her blog, Evange.List.
As the economy goes, so goes giving to causes that need donor dollars to keep doors open. While we bemoan sacrifices of luxury goods, our global social sector is faced [...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting early this morning that an individual with strong ties to Silicon Valley is set to be named by President-Elect Barack Obama to one of the nations top economic advisory positions. Lawrence E. Summers, who served as cabinet secretary under President Bill Clinton and former Harvard President, is set [...]

This guest post is written by Matt Rutherford, Web Strategist and technology producer for Charlie Rose. Matt focuses on the macro themes affecting the internet and the wider world.
In an intimate interview with Charlie Rose on PBS tonight, and available here, Stanford professor Larry Lessig reveals some profound views on copyright, remix culture, and [...]

Chinese Democracy, the first new Guns N’ Roses album since 1991, debuts tonight at 9 PM PST exclusively on MySpace Music, where fans can listen to it for free.
Well, actually it debuted on BitTorrent a while ago, but we’re not talking about that. Also, the band has previously released two songs, Chinese Democracy and Better, [...]

Kwyno, which launches in private beta next month, wants to be a command line for the web: a single box where you can type commands to navigate to web pages, search the web or check your friends’ updates on Facebook, Twitter or Pownce.
The web isn’t where a command line might shine though: it’s [...]

We’re pleased to announce that the 2nd Annual Open Web Awards is now powered by over 100 International Blog Partners. Our Blog Partners represent 24 countries and 9 languages to bring the Open Web Awards global and to the masses. With over 35,000 nominations already, we are nearing the end of the nominations period.
Nominations [...]

Government is increasingly putting much of its public records online, creating opportunities for developers to build useful applications for citizens. From being alerted to neighborhood crime to finding the best mass transit routes, these mashups are helping solve everyday problems.
Recently, the Washington DC government launched the Apps for Democracy contest to encourage developers to build [...]

The Apps for Democracy contest, which closes to submissions at midnight ET on Wednesday, is giving away $20,000 in prizes to developers who create web applications, widgets, Google Maps mashups, iPhone apps, Facebook apps, and other tools that utilize data from DC’s Data Catalog. In other words, the District of Columbia has made its [...]

The Rails Rumble 2008 took place over the weekend of October 18th. The 48 hour Rails competition resulted in 137 Ruby-on-Rails-based applications, all taken from concept to execution in 48 hours. That’s an impressive feat, and now you can go to the website, sign up, and vote for your favorites.
It’s hard to pick from such [...]

This is part of an ongoing series about government 2.0 written by Dr. Mark Drapeau. To view previous posts in the series click here.

In his Gettysburg Address, President Lincoln mentioned that government is “of the people, by the people, [and] for the people,” but interestingly among all the feedback I have received, no one has [...]