NRN: Progressive NASA and Space Policy Under a New Administration Part I

Long overdue, but here’s the video of the Progressive Space Policy panel I convened in August ‘08 at Netroots Nation. Note: No audio till 12:30. First of two parts.

NRN: Progressive NASA and Space Policy Under a New Administration Part II

Part II of the Netroots Nation panel on Progressive NASA on 7/18/08…

1.2 Million Fake Copies of New York Times Declare End of Iraq War

We need humor in these trying times– preferably didactic humor that gives us a new perspective or that makes us feel liberated and inspired. There are few clandestine organizations on Earth today who provide that too us as consistently and dramatically as The Yes Men.
Thanks to them, 1.2 million copies of newspapers appearing to be [...]

Obama’s Space Policy Platform

I met with 15 other people in Austin on July 18th to conduct an Obama for President Space Policy Platform meeting, right after our Space Policy panel at Netroots Nation Convention. Our crew included Netroots activists, aerospace enthusiasts from the Austin area, and even former NASA officials. After several hours of debate, and [...]

Space Policy @ Netroots Nation: 2 events Friday the 18th in Austin

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 [...]

Announcing the Space Policy Panel at Netroots Nation / Yearly Kos

I’m very pleased to announce that for the first time, The Netroots Nation (Yearly Kos) Convention will feature a panel on space policy, July 18th or 19th in Austin, Texas. The panel, entitled, “Progressive NASA & Space Policy Under a New Administration,” is an opportunity to bring critical space policy issues to light within [...]

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 [...]

Video of My Presentation on Second Life at the 2007 Politics Online Conference

Scroll ahead to 11:00 minutes into the video to catch my 15 minute schpeel…

Presentation on Virtual Worlds at Politics Online Conference

As promised, here are my slides from my recent panel at Politics Online entitled Are Online Games the New Town Hall? Avatar-Based Marketing and the Rise of the Gamer Class in Politics.
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Second Life for Politics Presentation at Politics Online Conference