“While governments are adopting social media, it seems like many government agencies are there simply because they recognize that they must, in some form, come to terms with the radical shift in how information is created, consumed, and delivered.” (via techvibes.com) According to Mashable, Government 2.0 is “any technology that helps citizens or agencies solve [...]

Gerri Elder is a one-woman force in social media. When she’s not busy with her nearly 5-year-old son, Gerri maintains a healthy and active following on Twitter as AbsolutelyTrue, which is also the name of her popular blog, and was briefly the number one Digger last month–one of the few women to have accomplished such a feat. Gerri’s active on Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Mixx.

I imagined conformist grey jumpsuits, feasts comprised of small yellow pills and cars hovering in bleak uniformity. Utilitarian high rises. Breaking forth of hydrogen eggs. Maybe Big Brother was to blame for my perspective on the future, but it was really nothing short of a natural perspective after being inundated with new media projections on what Orwellian future was to come.

Last night Dario, Nadia and I went to Net Tuesdays: An Evening of Green Web 2.0. This is the second event hosted by NetSquared. The gathering was located in WorkSpace who donated the space to us for the evening. There was a great spread put out for us to snack on, provided by WriteImage – in keeping with the evenings green theme, all of the plates and cutlery were made of recycled and food materials that are totally biodegradable. Once we�?�d chatted and filled ourselves with tasty treats, we all sat down and got ready for the evenings talks. We sat with our good friend Dustin Sacks from Silly Soft…