Government Technology - November 2008 - (Page 52) pectrum reports from the IT horizon spectrum ideas to managing editor Karen Stewartson kstewartson@ govtech.com Send j NOV_08 Mayor 2.0 Hickenlooper jumps from a plane at 13,000 feet to promote a referendum in this political commercial. Author Kurt Vonnegut claims to be Hickenlooper’s true father in a video created for the Colorado I Have a Dream Foundation’s roast of Hickenlooper. Few public officials embrace Web 2.0 with as much enthusiasm — or humor — as Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. The mayor’s YouTube channel features videos spanning his six years in office. Here are some highlights: Code City Labor Day weekend was a truly laborious one for Carl Malamud, a public access advocate, who posted the 38-volume California Code of Regulations on the Internet. Malamud sought to send a message to government agencies to be more liberal with digital access and stop claiming copyrights on their laws. State laws stipulate that citizens cannot distribute or store these files without its consent. If they do, citizens can be fined $2,000 or more for a printed or even a digital copy. Malamud hopes this will encourage governments to be more lenient with digital distribution and to educate citizens about their rights. The 100-page three-ring binder collection is proudly referred to as “Code City” and can be seen on Flickr.com, while a comprehensive list of state laws can be viewed at http://bulk .resource.org/codes.gov. « outtakes from a public These service announcement promoting the 2006 Health Fair have three times more viewers than the video itself. In this video, the mayor and former Gov. Bill Owens governor chuckle over flubbing their lines. Hickenlooper attempts to answer the question, “How do you define democracy?” for a film contest sponsored by the Denver Film Society and Denver Office of Cultural Affairs. » 3% 9 50% EMMA NEWCOMBE, EDITORIAL INTERN Conservation Starts at Home? of people turn off lights, computers and TVs when they leave home for the day. do the same when leaving work. SOURCE: HARRIS INTERACTIVE 52 http://www.Flickr.com http://bulk.resource.org/codes.gov http://bulk.resource.org/codes.gov http://www.govtech.com
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