Space Policy Under an Obama Administration

(please post comments over at the new SpaceDemocrats.org thread instead of posting them here) Many space constituents are publicly critical of the Obama campaign for campaign rhetoric that is less overtly supportive of the status quo of the US space program than that of the Clinton or McCain campaigns. However, to this constituent of [...]

Possibly the most important video you’ll see this year: Lessig08

Larry Lessig is considering running for Congress. The scale of change that Lessig in office could cause, I believe, is profound. His work to rid Congress of special interest influence within 8 years would leverage a “Crowdsourced Congressional Staff” of 10,000s. Unlike the Congressional staff I worked on during my year off [...]

Successful First Day of Mixed-Reality NASA “Next Generation Exploration Conference”

We had the “Next Generation Exploration Conference II” streaming into NASA CoLab in Second Life all day today, creating a mixed reality conference. Below, NASA Ames Center Director Pete Worden (above) and NASA Headquarters’ Ken Davidian (below) address NGEC up to 50 avatars on NASA CoLab island in Second Life as well as 100 young [...]

Setting Up For a Mixed-Reality Conference at NASA

It takes an army of talented volunteers, and many hours, to get mixed-reality Second Life-Real-Life conferences set up in NASA conference facilities…

RG09: Reinventing Government Under a New Administration in 2009

I’ve been thinking a lot about how a new wave of “reinventing government” can occur, and what it would substantively entail, under a new Presidential Administration in 2009. Most of my thinking draws on my hands-on experience in one little corner of the Federal Government with our NASA CoLab program, but I want to [...]

PSFK Conference Talk About Co-Working

I’ll be talking about our experience with co-working at NASA at PSFK’s great New York conference in March… Would love input about what to cover as I prepare my talk.