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technoratiTechnology and the Internet are changing democracy in America. Personal Democracy Forum is a hub for the exciting conversation underway between political professionals, technologists, and anyone else invigorated by the remarkable potential of technology to engage citizens in the democratic process.
This just out: techPresident has been named one of 10 finalists in this year's Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism! How cool is that? The awards "spotlight the creative use of new information ideas and technologies to involve citizens in public issues."
This year's judges wrote that we were "Current, clean, efficient and effective. TechPresident.com uses web technology to report on how web technology is being used by the candidates in the 2008 presidential election."
We're rubbing shoulders with some amazing projects, including Reuters' Second Life Virtual News Bureau, the Council on Foreign Relations interactive Crisis Guides, the Washington Post's onBeing video portrait series, and NewAssignment.net's Assignment Zero project. (The full list of ten finalists and honorable mentions is here.)
We'll be in Washington, DC on September 17 at the National Press Club for the grand prize announcement.
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