Matthew Zagaja

The New York State Senate has been doing a lot to increase engagement with its citizens. The Director of Technology Innovation Noel Hidaldo recently gave a presentation (below) at the IgniteNYC event. Some of the stuff is procedural such as assigning their content a Creative Commons license. Other he touches on are much more substantive such as holding a digital town hall. Connecticut should start thinking about adopting some of these ideas.

Over the summer I was fortunate enough to get to work for Dan Malloy's exploratory committee. Today I got to see him announce his candidacy in Hartford. Dan's pitch is simple and compelling: he successfully ran Stamford and therefore has the experience needed to be successful in running Connecticut.

Well it appears Hillary Clinton is the winner of the New Hampshire primary, at least the AP and NBC are calling it for her right now. I spent the day up in New Hampshire canvassing for Barack Obama, and it was an experience. However even if at the end of the night Obama loses, it's not by a wide margin. What we end up with is an open race, and Obama can still take it. I think we might really have a Super Tuesday that is much more meaningful than ones in years past.

Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford Professor, gives an interesting and insightful lecture on corruption. Lessig has founded Creative Commons and has done a lot of work with technology policy.

Here is an argument from Columbia University as to why voting is rational.