My dad and I got talking the other week about the state of the nation. By which I mean the UK. The catch is that he and my mum now live in Spain - yes I am one of George Monbiot's 'Love Miles' children.
A diet of Sky News and the Daily Mail can make for an interesting take on Britain, as can my strange world immersed in central London and all things to do with the future of movement, new technology and the jigsaw puzzle of movers, shakers and quakers.
In a particularly philosophical moment we got onto 'defining issues of our age'. The defining issue was, I said:
How to adapt the political process, the mechanisms of media accountability and the process of social engagement (connecting citizens, businesses and interest groups) to a less centralised, potentially more inclusive process of enquiry, representation, decision-making and accountability. Crucially the objective must be to get more things done in order to tackle the various high and low priority issues of our time.
Interested to know what people think. For now I hope this helps explain why we'll be tracking developments in decentralised but collaborative decision-making. This shift is very significant for the future of how we move from place to place, from Heathrow to Houston. It's something I hope we can follow with you.
On a related topic, Technorati has just released its latest figures on blogging. There's an analysis piece here on BBC Online. The quote by Technorati's founder David Sifry interests me most:
"'Some of these are fully-fledged professional enterprises that post many, many times per day and behave increasingly like our friends in the mainstream media. The impact of these bloggers on our cultures and democracies is increasingly dramatic,' said Mr Sifry."Posted by Mark
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