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yourowndemocracy is a concept project that proposes a real-time voter sentiment feedback-loop platform merging social networking, direct political engagement, and the design of electronic market exchanges to create a modern online platform for participatory democracy. 

2008 Buckminster Fuller Institute Challenge Submission

Original GONGBLOG post about YOD with comments

YOD Makes BFI's FIRST CUT!

YOD one of 33 Finalists!

 

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Lunch at Marfa Table, Marfa, TX

 

Willow loitering on my white chair

 

A gift of a tin Fiat Cinquecento from my Facebook friend, Italy-based designer Derek Stewart

 

 

Cousins Lulu Clementine and Willow Lin in Marfa, TX

 

Small Press Exhibit at the Marfa Bookstore in Marfa, TX

 

Little Bear Show on iPod Nano flying back from Orlando

 

Stuffed giraffe and Barbie doll at home. Photo by Willow

 

Sister-in-law Shirley and Lulu at Judd Compound, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX

 

Train Park, Santa Fe

 

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Wednesday
13Jan2010

What might have been: Pro-modern China, circa 1927, under Chiang Kai-shek (pre-Communist regime)

Still taken from 6-hour series, "China: A Century of Revolution: Part One 1911-1949" (1989, Ambrica Productions). A must see, amazing historical footage...wow.

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In the post image, it's interesting to see America written as "Beautiful Country." In Japan, America is "Rice Country"

February 23, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterChristiana Aretta

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