We are not a Blog on politics, but related to 'Das Wiki, DIE GRUENEN, ihr Wahlprogramm zur Digitale Gesellschaft XXL-Light' ... this special entry for Sebastian:
Jon Lebkowsky reposted an entry he wrote before for a discussion on the WELL
Social software and politics
"... Blogs are important in this context, but they're not everything. Along with the ascendance of the blog came a whole social software movement that was gathering steam around 2002. Social software is pretty much any software that supports community or collaborative work over computer networks, i.e. the Internet ... "
certainly worth reading.
via Ross Mayfield's Weblog
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