Category: The Power of Many

  • Susan Mernit on 43 things

    Quoting from Digging 43 things: The 10 minutes I was going to spend on the 43 Things beta from robot coop turned into 45 somehow. This list-maker from a new company formed by a bunch of Amazon’s personalization wizards has a social network aspect and a team or groups component that are both cool. I’m…

  • VoodooPad 2.0 is out

    draft notes in progress (based theory of publishing entire process): i am “saddened” to quote Tom Daschle to feel that I must mention that VoodooPad isn’t paying me to blog about it!* VoodooPad. You put your brain in it. That’s the short explanation. If you are familiar with Wikis, then go ahead and delete all…

  • Citzen's media on the local level

    Quoting from Washington Post Examines Citzen’s Media Big day for citizen journalism. Peg notes that Leslie Walker writes in today’s Washington Post that several notable ventures have launched or raised money this year to create local news sites online in which readers contribute all or most of the news. Profiled… iBrattleboro.com NorthwestVoice Advance Internet Backfence…

  • Missing the conference / not missing the conference

    Although my personal life wouldn’t permit yet another east coast trip at this moment (I was there in the summer and the fall and I’m headed there for the holidays as well), it sounds like the Internet ‘n’ society conference going on at Harvard this weekend would have been a nice one to make it…

  • Wiki spam

    I suppose wiki spam is inevitable. I’ve set up the wiki part of this site to be fairly open to changes to encourage readers and visitors to interact, but now for the second time a spammer has dropped a bunch of links to some Chinese websites onto the pages (Recent Changes). It’s not hard for…

  • Email and Browser URL Extraction and Search via a Personal del.icio.us

    I think Jeremy Zawodny’s onto something big here. I’ll have to add a link to my “why not tag everything” post too, because I think it’s part of the same picture (Email and Browser URL Extraction and Search via a Personal del.icio.us): A few minutes ago, I needed to send a note to Russell about…