Posted on July 9, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin
In addition to my reinventing government and science policy panels at Netroots Nation on Friday the 18th, I’ll be moderating the only space-related panel at Netroots Nation, entitled “Progressive NASA and Space Policy Under a New Administration.” We have a great panel lineup– Chris Bowers of OpenLeft.com, George Whitesides of the National Space Society and [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin
As part of the first ever US Congressional hearing simulcast with a virtual world (it wasn’t QUITE mixed-reality), the House Telecommunications & the Internet Subcommittee held a hearing last week entitled “Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium.”
During the hearing, Philip Rosedale, founder of Linden Lab, played a machinima video that featured [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin
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 [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2008 by Andrew Hoppin
Thanks to Salim Ismail for blogging the last NASA Luna Philosophie at his Yahoo Brickhouse facility. Luna Philosophie is a regular series of approximately monthly “space salons,” and is part of our NASA CoLab program, through which we’re building open collaborative communities for NASA.
Watch the video of NASA Ames’ Tom Cochrane’s Luna Philosophie talk [...]
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Posted on December 11, 2007 by Andrew Hoppin
An important meeting took place in Sebastapol last weekend (I didn’t know about it in advance, but I did wonder at the time why several folks in my Dopplr list were in Sebastapol concurrently!) to advance the cause of openness and accessibility of government data.
Good timing– the CoLab team just spent the past two days [...]
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