Welcome to the second annual Personal Democracy Forum. It’s great to see so many familiar faces from last year’s forum, and to greet so many new folks who are here. It seems our blog-ads on Jeff Gannon’s website paid off.
We’re putting on our conference today in cooperation with the Continuing Education and Public Programs at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Thank you David Levine and your whole staff here at CUNY, you’ve been fantastic.
I also want to take a moment to thank the terrific and talented PDF staff for putting together a program interesting and provocative enough to get a room full of techies to put down their Berries and Treos for the better part of a day: Hart Hooton, Dawn Barber, Jen Vento, Isabel Walcott, and our executive editor, Micah Sifry. In particular, I’d like to single out Anthony Russomano and Elizabeth Caputo for their tireless efforts to make today a success
And a special thanks to our distinguished group of sponsors: Google, Burson-Marsteller, Echoditto, E