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Does New England need a virtual meeting place for discussion and action on politics, culture, environment and living? Could the Massachusetts governor's race be a catalyst to establish one? An idea session. More info on: [[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/newengland New England]] ''Convener: Christopher Lydon, Open Source Radio''

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Chris: a promising concept; many ideas for "commons" have been tried out on the Internet, some of which you graciously mentioned in your ''Commonwealth'' piece. Suppose the Commons were not a particular website, but a code by which Internet communities convened.
--[[User:Jon Garfunkel|Jon Garfunkel]] 21:57, 26 June 2006 (EDT)


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hmm, everyone who had wanted to follow up on the New England Commons forum was supposed to put their contact info on the wiki-- better late than never to get this started I guess:

==People Interested in Following Up on the New England Commons Idea==

* presumably, Christopher Lydon
* Benjamin Melançon, http://pwgd.org/ - http://bemweb.com/contact - Natick, Mass.
* Robert Keough, CommonWealth magazine, rkeough@massinc.org
* Meredith O'Brien, UMass-Amherst Journalism Program, freelancer writer, [http://www.townonline.com/blogs/bostonMommy] blogger, meredithobrien@hotmail.com.