DIY Democracy

By Doc Searls and Jim Thompson

It's not about the money. Even when it's about the money.

For the last two days here in New York, I've been attending the Personal Democracy Forum, as well as various gatherings of geeks, wonks and other parties whose interests meet at the intersection of technology and politics. Debates over Net Neutrality and legislative strategy mixed with debates over the relative merits of Drupal, Ruby on Rails, and the differences between the package management approaches of Red Hat, Debian and Gentoo.

It's good to see technologists start to care about