Category: The Power of Many

Was: Telemarketers, do not call my cellphone Passing this along, seems like a worthy blog meme to spread: In case you had not heard … In a few weeks, cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls. Worse yet, YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS…

Cell phones help people locate each other at spread out entertainment events like the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (the first weekend of which I just attended for the tenth or eleventh time in the last thirteen or so years), but it can be hard to hear what someone is saying into your phone…

Faithful readers of this site know that I am also a contributing editor at Personal Democracy Forum, a site about how technology is changing politics edited by Micah Sifry and founded by Andrew Rasiej. That site grew out of a one-day conference in New York last year (also called Personal Democracy Forum). This May 16…

Steve Rubel celebrates his blog’s first anniversary (Happy Birthday Micro Persuasion!). He’s accomplished a tremendous amount in one year, and in that time has become my first go-to source for blog news and information. Here’s his summary of the year: Micro Persuasion turns one year old today. I would like to take this opportunity to…

I missed the local anniversary party and the afterparty the next day, but the first one got a decent write up in the Chronicale / SF Gate (Hippies, freethinkers and geeks mark two decades of dipping into the Well): The crowd looked like the stereotype of the Bay Area intellectual and creative community. And, indeed,…

Over at Hot Points, GoDadddy founder and president Bob Parsons notes that the US 9th Circuit has ruled it OK for critics of a business entity to register “{entity name here}sucks.com” as a domain name, even when the entity’s name is a registered trademark. This evening, Parsons will discuss the ramifications of this on RadioGoDaddy.com:…