David Weinberger argues that Emergent Democracy is about connected individuals getting things done on their own in Small World. But we haven't been trusted to organize ourselves - i.e., to invent things to do and then go do them together - as we have in the Howard Dean campaign. I'm a little skeptical about how well this process translates to an open-ended world, as opposed to working on a well-bounded ZeroSum contest. But it actually gives me a little hope/inspiration: sometimes the elephant learns that the chains can't hold him anymore...

Celebrating the Third Place says Essential to informal collective effort is the habit of association...

[Tom Steinberg] writes about his new My Society project. We are trying to bring together great project ideas, enthusiastic developers and visionary funders to produce cheap, effective services with a demonstrable real world impact. Projects are only limited by the need to have clearly positive social outcomes, and to have costs that barely increase when more people use them. All projects will probably be released under open source licences, to allow their code to be modified and improved by anyone willing to help.

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