Thanks for the comment. Hopefully, I wasn’t to offensive. I spend quite a bit of time in the ‘web 2.0′ space and so I have heard so many variants on the term so many times that it literally makes me shudder.

That being said I loved the piece on NPR and I was excited to see that Utah is focused on connecting citizens with their leaders. Even though the labels grow old the technologies have a great deal of value.

I am a full time programmer/analyst for the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State and sometimes a PhD student. I can’t really take on an internship, but I would love to have a discussion sometime. We try to research how technology impacts people’s lives and I would love to have lunch sometime – I’d even drive to SLC and buy.

Yeah, we’re beyond Government 2.0. I should change that label, but what would the number be? And that conversation will take eyes off the ball. What we (my bosses and I) are trying to do is reengage with the people who own, live under, pay for, and are responsible for, their own government. No reason they should be alienated from the process. We’re trying to make it easier for them to engage.

Any senator can post. Some do, some don’t, regardless of party. The minority caucus didn’t love the word “majority” on the masthead, so they created their own blog site. In fact, since the advent of the Senate Site, all four of Utah’s legislative caucuses (cauci? what’s the plural?) have created strikingly similar blog sites.

We’ve only begun to explore the possibilities and I’m always looking for gifted interns. If you know anyone who may fit that description, please send them our way.

RC