I’m going to be speaking at the Politics Online Conference here in Washington, D.C. this Friday, March 16th. I’m in a breakout panel called “The Policy Commons: Democracy when the Owners Take Control.”

Dave Witzel, my former boss at ForumOne Communications helped organize the panel to promote the idea of the policy commons, or the use of peer-production tools to guide and develop public policy. He wrote a kind review of this project when it first launched last August and he has just launched another Digg-like blog to track similar projects and developments at PolicyCommons.org that is worth checking out.

I’m looking forward to the discussion and will post slides, photos, and any suprise announcements I make here on this blog over the weekend.

Updated:
I’ve uploaded my presentation slides in powerpoint and PDF format.

New analysis from the Center for Space Standards and Innovation shows that the Chinese ASAT test produced 957 pieces of trackable space debris, surpassing the previous record in 1996: