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| Sunday, July 13, 2003 |
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Mainstreaming 
To hell, though maybe not back
EDCon
| | My biggest take-away from OSCon wasn't about open source. It was about emerging democracy (or maybe just plain old democracy, without the industrial distorions of the last century) at work. |
| | No, politics wasn't on the schedule, except in one BOF that Britt added at the last minute. But it was at the heart of the best off-topic conversations I enjoyed at the show. |
| | Note that many of the people giving money to the Dean campaign are excited simply to be engaged with a political process that seems to be about better government and better governance, rather than hot-button issues. |
| | There is a tsunami building. It's a democratic one, in the small-d meaning of the word. I believe it's happening for citizens — Republicans as well as Democrats — and that the Dean campaign is just the most high-profile and illustrative example of it, for now. |
| | In any case, the Tsunami matters more than the surfers who have figured out how to ride it. |
YSMV
| | A number of people have alerted me to some kind of Google slowdown problem lately. Here's one blogged case. I haven't noticed, but I haven't been especially connected this last week. |
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