A friend of mine writes:
I’m very excited to share I have a chapter in the new O’Reilly Media book Open Government (US Link & CDN Link). I’ve just been told that the book has just come back from the printers and can now be ordered.
Also exciting is that a sample of the book (pictured left) that includes the first 8 chapters can be downloaded as a PDF for free.
One of the smartest people I know has a chapter in the new O’Reilly book on open government.
The upside: he’s in smashing (and well-deserved) company, the book looks fascinating and the timing couldn’t be better.
The downside: no animal cover! Okay, so there’s a lovely shot of a cupola from some legislature or other. But why not some animal that conveys social behaviour, openness of information and networked awareness?
An ant? A bee? A Borg-ified ant-bee hybrid? Suggestions?
Woo hoo a new O’Reilly book!
I wouldn’t say ant. Too hierarchical.
Bee…a bit like ant, monarchist.
A plethora of parrots. They are social, learn songs from each other (the concept of the meme evoloved from watching how birds learn songs from each other). Stick them in a tech tree. Put a bunch of different species in there and you have a multicultural government.
Then again you could do the same with dolphins and whales in the wide open sea…
Me again. This kind of thing would be fun.
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