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One in a Hundred
March 20th, 2006
I’ve been invited by Phil Gerbyshak to going the 100 bloggers project. I’m going to use that platform to draw attention to Think New Orleans.
Think New Orleans is on a mission to remove barriers that prevent civic information from getting out into the real deal web.
Civic groups in New Orleans have a bad habit of using chain e-mail messages. When they do use the web, a lot of information is posted to forums that are frame based and cannot be indexed by Google, or on static web sites where information is moved or deleted.
There are only a handful of forums that have syndicated feeds.
How does Think New Orleans address this? By setting folks up with blogs, or by posting their information to the Think New Orleans group blog.
The Think New Orleans blog itself hosts digitially recorded audio of community meetings. It’s a way to extend the civic discussion and to maintain a record of what’s been discussed.
In any medium, I’ll be banging on about this.
