While I'm in the business of promoting friends' sites out there, here's one that might turn real interesting real soon: changeforamerica.com. I don't know what the plan is organizationally, but I think it would be cool if a whole plethora of "foramerica" sites and organizations started popping up.

I got to see Joe up close at the Digital Democracy Teach-In, which I want to write about. I have too little focus at the moment to create quality content, so I'll spare you my pithy ramblings. The short and sweet is that the tech community has a ways to come yet politically, and that the political community has a ways to come yet technically, but the two are moving closer together. This is good. While I get frustrated from time to time I also think what's going on is really exciting, and it's only the beginning too.

I believe that the intersection of network technologies and politics will be part of the Next Big Thing for humanity, because it presents us with a the first radically different way to organize ourselves since the invention of metropolises and mass media made facist nationalism possible. It could still go all wrong -- which would really be a 1984 situation -- but I think the odds are that enough people involved in decision making and tool building are non-evil to prevent dystopia. My only worry is that it won't go right quickly enough.