Good idea ...

"We've all experienced the feeling that government agencies work in silos. The Partnership for Sustainable Communities is a critical initiative to enable HUD, DOT and EPA to work in a purposefully coordinated way."

This is a small example of the type of project contemplated in the One Long Island series of ideas and good for Long Island.

One Long Island also contemplates a"modular" approach within the "meta" approach so that programs of this type have common links to all other Long Island based initiatives.

In this way, we build a long term dynamic and sustainable model for Long Island.

Thanks to the Nassau County Legislature ...

... for unanimously appointing me a member of the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency today.

I accepted of course ....

The Long Island Regional Planning Council, with whom I've been talking with for some time regarding some of the "One Long Island" concepts, is I believe, in a unique position to "bring it all together" for the benefit of Long Island.

They are taking a unique, dynamic approach which if executed properly will be highly successful.

I'm happy to play a small part in this forward looking plan.

Collaborative information models ...

"New models of journalism – those that satisfy a growing hunger for up-to-the-second news – were a popular subject.

“Since there is no guarantee that journalists will be at the right place at the right time to report important events, the new journalism must be one that is open to both amateur and professional reporters,” said Bill Kovach, founder of the Committee of Concerned Journalists.

“Somewhere each day,” he continued, “another site moves a step closer to becoming a direct competitor or a valuable new addition to the legacy press.”

Perhaps like the Long Island Independent Media Consortium? Or the Long Island Meta-News Service ?

One Long Island is full of ideas on how we the public can govern and inform ourselves both within and outside of the already established norms.

Only through this type of "mass collaboration" can common ground be established for moving Long Island forward. Otherwise we will constantly be vulnerable to the "divide and conquer" mentality that currently carries the day.