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From the Center for Media Research (USA)- What’s a Blogger?

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Blog, Statistics, USA, Web 2.0

Here is an overview of some research into blogging undertaken in January 2008 by BIGresearch in the US.
What’s A Blogger?
Bloggers are younger and higher percentages are Hispanic & African American than the general population. A higher percentage of Democrats than of Republicans are blogging.
Now that Blogging might better be called a market segment rather than […]

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NZ Blog Post- Public Organisations must manage change more quickly…

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Blog, NZ, Net-Gen, Society, Web 2.0, Wisdom of Crowds, e-government

Interesting post by Jason Ryan on PSnetwork.org on the need for Public sector organisations (in New Zealand) to increase the rate at which they are adapting to changing cultural and technological conditions.
“The problem, as such, is not that public sector organizations are not adapting to the change; the fact that there is so much interest […]

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Currently Active US Government Blogs

January 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Blog, Government 2.0, USA, transparency

Big Read Blog – National Endowment for the Arts literature director David Kipen blogs regularly about his experiences promoting the 2007 Big Read initiative.
Dipnote – This blog offers the public an alternative source to mainstream media for U.S. foreign policy information and the opportunity to discuss important foreign policy issues with senior State Department officials.
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Let my data go! the case for transparent government

January 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Blog, Government 2.0, Government as Platform, Mashups, Net-Gen, Trust, USA, transparency

David Stephenson has published the content of a speech he gave to New Internet Web 2.0 conference on November 1, 2007
David outlines the possibilities more transparent government offers to the public and to business and gives some very good examples of several US agencies that have opened their data to the public using well documented […]

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Welcome to Rialtas.net

January 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Blog, Government 2.0, Web 2.0

I have been doing a lot of research recently around “Web 2.0″ technologies or the “Read-Write Web” and thought that some of what I had learned and some of the information I had come across might be useful, interesting or helpful to others. My main area of Interest is in helping to improve the online […]

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