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Today we’re happy to announce a new PdF book project called Rebooting America: Democracy in the 21st Century, an anthology of essays from leading thinkers and activists (check out the impressive list here) that we'll be publishing to coincide with this year's Personal Democracy Forum conference June 23-24 in New York City.

The anthology features our essayists' response to this challenge:

When the Framers met in Philadelphia in 1787, they bravely conjured a new form of self-government. But they couldn’t have imagined a mass society with instantaneous, many-to-many communications or many of the other innovations of modernity. So, replacing that quill pen with a mouse, imagine that you have to power to redesign American democracy for the Internet Age. What would you do?

We’re quite pleased with the group of contributors we’ve lined up. But the collection wouldn’t be complete without reading your thoughts, too, so we’re inviting our readers to submit essays telling us how to make America better, stronger, more inclusive and participatory, and to vote on their favorite essays. Up to three winning essays will be included in the anthology.

Go here to submit your essay and to view previously submitted essays from other readers. If you like someone’s essay, vote it up, if you don’t, vote it down, and we’ll take your opinions into account. The book’s editors, Allison Fine, Micah Sifry, Andrew Rasiej and Josh Levy will be making the final decision.

Essays should run from 500 to 1500 words, and the deadline is May 1. If you’re interesting in submitting your ideas, go to http://rebooting.personaldemocracy.com to get started.

If you've already registered for PdF 2008, don't worry--you can still submit an essay. If you win, we'll refund your fee.