Re: Project PM

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Jaigene-

No problem. Fiscal and foreign policy conservatives are more than welcome; social conservatives probably wouldn't be comfortable working with me. Glad to have you on board.

I think I've already put you in touch with a couple of the other people who joined from reddit over the last couple of days; it looks like they're trying to find a good time when everyone can get together on IRC and discuss the software. Also I'll be sharing with you all a couple of Google Docs with further info on what's been decided so far by other software people.

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Jaigene Kang <jaigene.kang@gmail.com> wrote:
I wouldn't mind a copy of your book, now that the dear Rick Sanchez is no longer on air to amuse us all twice a day.

I appreciate the email and the time. I have spare time on my hands at the moment (being between jobs), but this seems like something I wouldn't mind helping out with. I should let you know, I do consider myself conservative, but more-ish in the Goldwater sense than the Reaganot sense. I doubt my political views will get in the way of any help though--I'm pretty socially liberal. If there's anything to unite both sides it's pundits.

You know, this actually takes me back to my undergraduate years. I remember one of my favorite classes was the founding father's and philosophy.It was sort-of "The Constitution + All the other documents circa its writing" class. In any case, not to over glorify the dead men, but it instilled most of us with a great respect for their foresight. They seemed to have expected everything...except mass media. You would think instant communication would have liberated and propelled our Democratic Republic -- but, alas it merely adds more noise than signal.

Anyways, sorry to banter! Thanks again and I look forward to your associate's email.

Jaigene D. Kang
jaigene.kang@gmail.com

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Jaigene -

Thanks for reaching out. Basically, Project PM is a distributed think-tank, which is to say that it fulfills the function of a think-tank but operates in a more efficient manner that is conducive to designing the best possible solutions to a variety of problems having to do with the way in which information flows. Media reform is central to our goals, although we're also tackling issues such as how to best encourage development in Africa at the lowest cost possible, or at no cost, as is the case with the pamphlet we intend to distribute to villages containing blueprints for locally-viable projects involving everything from agriculture to water safety.

I'm going to have my associate Clark Robinson e-mail you with links and other resources so that you get a more complete sense of what we're about; I'll forward this e-mail to him so that he'll see the skills and background you've listed here and will thus be better able to determine which of our programs might interest you the most. Feel free to ask me any questions as well. Also, we just set up an IRC channel at irc.freenode.net, #projectPM. I try to idle in there for much of the day, as do many of more active participants. Incidentally, we have about 80 members so far and expect to be expanding quite a bit over the next couple of weeks. If you know anyone else who's clever, intellectually honest, and willing to spend a little bit of time on something that hasn't been done before, have them get in touch with me.

Let me know if you'd also like a PDF copy of my upcoming book, in which I make fun of the nation's most prominent columnists and pundits and explain how media reform can best be accomplished. Also, where are you based?

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Jaigene Kang <jaigene.kang@gmail.com> wrote:

You said to email on the IAmA, so here is me emailing you about more information. I have a pretty broad IT skillset, mainly operations/security. I'm familiar with the new fangled internet stuff to some extent though (PHP, sql, css, etc).

Jaigene D. Kang
jaigene.kang@gmail.com

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Barrett Brown
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Barrett Brown
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