Housh was speaking at South by Southwest Interactive on Tuesday, the annual festival in Austin devoted to Web and digital culture.

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Jon Hein, the creator of the Jumptheshark.com Web site -- which charts the rise and fall of TV shows and other pop culture -- says "The Simpsons" is by far the most popular topic on his Web site, and there have been rumblings that the show has leaped the fish, or at least started turning into chum.

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Denise is a hurricane outreach organizer for a battered women's program in Baton Rouge, and Leo is editor and publisher of antigravitymagazine.com, a Web magazine about New Orleans' music and culture.

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Organizations want to foster employee satisfaction, productivity and creativity, but they are often reluctant to loosen the reins on traditional titles, controlled web browsing, cube culture and strict company protocols and procedures.

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It is this architecture that seems to imbue those that work with the web with a culture of free expression, a belief in universal access and a tendency toward decentralising information.

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Ford is posting a handful of new stories each week on an internal Go Further web site to illustrate the new thinking and to encourage employees to extend the seeds of the new culture.

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If this is to work it is going to need a change of culture, from one where the government viewed its web operations as something to be farmed out to some giant suppliers and forgotten, to something far more responsive.

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