Wiki-ing the Political Power Structure
Steve Rubel points out a new application of wikis on his Micropersuasion site today: breaking out corporate organization charts, pieces of information usually tightly held by companies because of the details they would reveal to competitors.
Political applications of the concept jump right out at me, though other people may be way ahead on this front. How about a collaboratively maintained map of political relationships, i.e., who’s worked for whom over the years in the Hill/lobby community, who’s consulted for which candidates, who’s dated whom, whose kids go to school together, which legislators have taken trips with which trade groups, who’s sponsored legislation for which industries, etc. Marry that kind of information with publicly available campaign contribution data and you can have some REAL fun.
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