REYKJAVIK, Iceland — This city near the top of the world has a distinguished history of hosting summit meetings. Presidents, prime ministers and premiers have come here to discuss their differences and chart earth’s future.

Yet mere planets were beneath the concern of the nine leaders — warlords, religious crusaders, industrial tycoons, freedom fighters, university dons and banking moguls — who temporarily set aside their differences last week and gathered here under a banner of peace. After all, they had an entire galaxy to consider.

Of course that galaxy does not really exist. Yet for the more than 200,000 players of the science-fiction game Eve Online; for the company here that created it, CCP; indeed for the broader concept of how companies relate to their customers, the inaugural meeting of the Council of Stellar Management was a watershed in the evolution of online democracy.
Seth Schiesel
Face to Face: A Council of Online Gamers
NYT
Published: June 28, 2008

We recently launched My Yard Our Message, a project that asks you to design yard signs, vote on them, and display them in your yard. The project is open for your designs any time before the end of June. We have a design template for making the signs as easy as possible.  Mnartists.org is one of the project sponsors along with the Walker Art Center and has a great article about project.

I also posted some of the tech details on how the website was built and the Facebook App we’ve built to show the signs on profiles and pages.

So far we have 47 signs submitted in the project. Here is just a sample of them:

Use your Superpowers, VOTE!
by Jane Rainwater

Ecology Flag
by Christy Sayre

Ugly partisanship
by Emmet Byrne

Convention
by Andy Pressman

Here’s a video of our first outing, thanks to Tyler Hallett…