Government 1.5

Over at GovLoop, Benjamin Strong is mad as hell. Workers in Federal Agencies are still forbidden from using most of the new social media tools. This means they can't participate in the pro- part of prosumer. Mutatis mutandis they're going to face problems launching anything virtual world-ish, be it MMPOG or MSPOG. It's not impossible, its just that anything they do will require approval from way up top - which defeats the value of open production.

One of the more reasonable grounds for opposing the expansion of government influence is the repeated experience that government actors, exposed to the political winds, tend to build houses of stone. As technology unleashes its earthquakes with increasing frequency, stone goes from being a nice protection from the howling wolves to a rather vulnerable crypt-in-the-making.

Comments

[David]

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I wonder if, at some level, it will happen organically under the "if there is a will, there is a way" principal? You can not block your staff 24hrs a day and personal mobile devices are also a bit tough to silence as well.

[thoreau]

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Sorry for the off topic - but Ed did you see this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/31/lineage_ii_eula_defeat/

A Hawaii man who sued a company over his crippling addiction to the computer game Lineage II has gone where few litigants have managed to go, defeating the end-user agreement that said he had no right to bring the case to begin with.

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