Q & A's with public sector bloggers and government Web 2.0 innovators
Interviews with a variety of people at all levels of government arranged by state. From local school board members who blog to NASA public affairs officials who tweet. Thrilling reading!
This was a lot of fun. The major blog out there on Gov 2.0 linked to this post, an analysis of a very lazy column by someone trying to sound tech savvy. I think I got this better than anybody out there that day.
Maureen Dowd: 'Tie me up and pour honey over me'
Analysis of the popularity of Twitter bashing from mainstream media big-shots fearful at the prospect of a country of digitally-busy citizens sharing news and ideas and spin with each other, instead of blindly relying on the analog punditocracy. These people have no idea how they sound when they write this stuff.
The Fairfax Country Shrieker: A public sector social media cautionary tale
Nobody anywhere had this the way I had it, and that showed me that I was on to something. A huge local school district just looks small and frightened and out of touch when it goes after a student who used his cellphone to call an administrator and make mischief. My take was to explore why public K-12 is so vastly tech phobic.
The story behind the Israeli New York Consulate's staging of the first Twitter press conference
Rachel Maddow actually took shots at this brilliant example of government-citizen engagement. My post is a Q & A with the guy who made it happen.
The McCain plagiarism tale and the Palin faux
pregnancy rumors: How anonymous partisans exploit established Web brands
for political ends
Municipalist actually played a non-important role in the McCain speech non-scandal, we are non-proud to say. So naturally, various sites covering the '08 campaign linked to us, including CQ Political Insider. Municipalist background here and then here.
From our Documents section: Letter from law firm of Howell, Michigan affiliate of Michigan Education Association to Howell school board attorneys objecting to blog published by school board member Wendy Day. [Nov. 12, 2008 PDF.] [Municipalist Q & A with Wendy Day, Jan. 5, 2009]
New WhiteHouse.gov leaves out the details
The bizarre canonization of the Barack Obama Web team throughout the campaign was difficult enough to endure. For a few reporters, though, reality began to dawn the first few days, weeks, and months of the Obama term. And collecting the evidence turned out to be not difficult.
