Friday, August 15, 2008

Politics and Place


Because representative democracy is based on geography, content created by citizens must be identified by place instead of simply organized by issue. Content, from a news story to an online comment to a picture or video, needs to automatically be assigned (or “tagged”) with a geographic place. In addition, content bounded by a state or region or identified as global will be essential.


Sidewalks for Democracy Online

by Steven L. Clift

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