{"id":754,"date":"2009-01-14T19:37:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T00:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2009-01-14T19:37:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T00:37:56","slug":"intriguing-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/14\/intriguing-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Intriguing Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an e-mail tonight from Change.Gov that announced the rollout of a new feature on the <a href=\"http:\/\/citizensbriefingbook.change.gov\/\">Change.Gov<\/a> website.  It is called a Citizen&#8217;s Briefing Book.  Now, I&#8217;m not so naive as to believe that comments there are going to go very far, but I think the idea is really intriguing.  As it stands right now, there are spam messages and there are too many comments to follow.  Some are good, some are from folks who have had one too many beers (or joints, or whatever).  But I think the idea is really interesting &#8211; it reminds me of the concept behind Wikipedia.  Anyone can submit a comment and that comment gets voted up or down.  After a period of time, the comments with the highest number of points are looked at and possibly added to the President&#8217;s briefing book.  A number of refinements need to be made to the system (limited number of words for comments, restrictions on cross-posting come to mind) but the idea of soliciting comments from ordinary citizens and those ordinary citizens having the ability to vote on those ideas is different.  Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an e-mail tonight from Change.Gov that announced the rollout of a new feature on the Change.Gov website. It is called a Citizen&#8217;s Briefing Book. Now, I&#8217;m not so naive as to believe that comments there are going to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/14\/intriguing-possibilities\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}