At his webblog Bruno Gisusiani writes about “participative” democracy in a reference to French politician and presidential candidate Segolène Royal who is, apparently, designing her political program based on input submitted via her website.

Political campaigns haven’t been the same since Joe Trippi did wonders for Howard Dean by building his presidential campaign on social media, but is Segolène Royal’s approach a healthy way of engaging the public or is it simply straightforward populistic?

Here in Denmark, social-media-campagning is still an open-territory as no political party seems to have employed new media in any particularly interesting or novel way…yet.

It’s nice seeing that old-school technological appliances still have some room left for innovation.

This Tele Face phone allows you to speed-dial a favorite number via images rather than numbers or names. It has room for 5 images, which could potentially: 1) insult family members or friends when they accidentally discover that they are not on the list of favorites or 2) improve relations to family members or friends when they discover they are on it.

Of ocurse, a ‘smart’ version of this concept, would auto generate the list based on the amount + duration of incoming and outgoing calls, thereby avoiding any conflict.

This is the first post in the 1508 blog. A big thing. We have been talking about this blog for a long time. But today we gonna start. Welcome!