To my great surprise, Democracy 2.0 has been given a "Runners-up" mention under the "Grassroots Use of Web 2.0" category for the "The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005".

Here's the link: web2.wsj2.com/the_best_we..._of_2005.htm

The project itself ( d2.stevemagruder.com ) has been dormant for a while, but this mention plus a seeming new interest in this subject area does make me want to bring it all back to life. Lucky for that purpose is that I've been maintaining the framework behind it even though its content has become somewhat stale. But updating the content is pretty easy to do.

It seems to me that "Web 2.0", when boiled down to something everyone can grasp, means "web as a platform" and that indeed is a key to what Democracy 2.0 was (and perhaps will be) trying to create: a platform for democracy itself using web technology.

At any rate, it is indeed my humble goal to build a project that spawns many democracy-enhancing applications. WebCommons (my web development wing) in particular is working on the software behind this board (amongst other things), ultimately to achieve a "people's assembly in a discussion board". The final result will be a lot more comprehensive than that phrasing suggests, but as an introductory vision, I think it suffices.

Cheers to Dion Hinchcliffe for mentioning Democracy 2.0 and cheers also to everyone who has inspired me along the way for the past several years. And even more cheers to others building other important democracy-related projects. Perhaps now really is the time to start moving forward forcefully on these concepts--making them a reality.