[Campaigns-l] Going down the wrong path?

[Janet Hawtin]

On 7/8/06, Stephen Abbott <nhprman at comcast.net> wrote:
> What I find a *tad* disturbing is someone just created a list of "Corrupt
> Politicians." (http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Corrupt_politicians).
>
> It's not a coincidence that they are all from one party, considering the
> political tenor of Washington these days. However, I thought we were aiming
> for something different here -- a bit less ... predictable.

I have to say that I was a bit disappointed that the campaigns page was
structured around existing parties and so therefore divided visitors into
political parties by the information structure.

I am hoping that if we structure information around issues the theme
will bring folk together to discuss approaches to an issue in one
place and come to some hopefully constructive conclusions around any
tension points.

imho Because we are operating on a wiki and because our communities
can acheive things with different methods of organising, I am hoping
that these pages can provide an alternative way of looking at these
issues which is about the issue and not about the standard positions
of existing parties and decision making systems. Surely if we cannot
offer anything different from those systems we are wasting our time.

I agree with Stephen that this is a great idea but we will have to
work to make it something effective and to avoid old ruts. And once we
get everything sweet and effective here. The second challenge will be
making it corporeal without falling into those same ruts outside where
the information structure is separate and has organisations, money,
processes and media to match.

janet/lucychili