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Direct Democracy in Practice: My Research

Recall momentarily that a friend of mine, Jeff, wants to create a web-based application that enables collective brainstorming.  He proposes to call his idea Cloudthink and you can read it directly from the source.  He and I have been debating, at first privately and now more publicly.  I was perusing the internet the other day, [...]

Implementing a direct democracy online

Earlier I talked about the idea of a direct democracy.  I promised I would give a concrete example, and I will, very soon.  First I wanted to discuss one method to govern such a democracy that Jeff sent me a little while ago.
It is called EfficaSync and if you have some time I recommend that [...]

An even-more-open web (aka Jeff’s idea aka weltanschauung)

My friend Jeff called me the other week to propose an idea, or rather to verbally think, as he often does.  Democracy, it seemed, was on Jeff’s mind, and its relation to the internet.  I, a fan of the internet’s power to empower people, love to talk about such things, and so Jeff and I [...]