Category: People Power

I’m intrigued by the service coComment is offering: giving you one place to track all of your blog comments and any followup conversations they may entail. Right now, it’s invitation-only, though, so I can’t try it out. Anyone got an invite for me? UPDATE: Well, that was fast. Looks like requesting a code is all…

Sometimes it’s useful to remember that Tim Berners-Lee’s first web browser has an editor built into it, as he reminds us in this BBC interview (Berners-Lee on the read/write web): Towards a rewritable web ML: I’m interested that at what sense you began to sense the possibilities. You weren’t thinking car rental, you weren’t thinking…

This post represents the first step in an experiment in publicly seeking work via the living web. I started by posting here at Radio Free Blogistan because this is still my best known brand and the blog site most closely associated with my name. (Who am I? I’m Christian Crumlish, a.k.a xian). What kind of…

Quoting from Buzzmachine: Free speech spreads: The first Afghan blog. [via IraqTheModel and Tim Oren] My name is Waheed. I am a 20 year old male from Afghanistan and I have been working with the US Army in Kabul, Afghanistan as an interpreter for the last 2 years…. During the Taliban we didn’t have internet…

Quoting from An Honor: I just had the honor of introducing some extraordinary people to a Silicon Valley audience. They were Jim Hake, CEO and founder of Spirit of America, which I wrote about last spring. His operation is bringing help from U.S. citizens to people who need it in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it’s…

via Call for non-profit, activist blogs (Joho the Blog): Rebeccca MacKinnon: …it would be interesting to build a public aggregator of blogs by non-profit and activist groups. Please list any you know in the comments section and I’ll start putting it together as soon as I gain critical mass. Note: Please add them to the…

Geodog has summed up a lot Late night thoughts on browsing the Iraq tag on Flickr One of the most striking developments in the web over the last year has been the sudden popularity of sites like Furl, Flickr and Del.icio.us, where users can categorize the data or photos they save with keywords, more colloquially…

Following up on Rayne’s previous post and filchyboy’s addendum, my sense is that while Billmon is clearly thoughtful and a great writer, he makes the same mistake Klam made in the Times magazine cover story, which is to view the A-list, top-of-the-power-law bloggers for the whole shmear. Of course some will cross over and sell…

I’m meeting RFB co-contributor Liza Sabater outside P.S. 122 in my old neighborhood in just over an hour. Liza and I last met face to face something like six or eight years ago, so Liza, in case your blogging between now and 6:45, I wanted to tell you I’d be wearing my orange and black…

I think a lot of us are alloying our old ideas about home pages and web publishing with new insights from blogs and wikis and other social media of the living web…

Nancy White from Full Circle asks (on the Well, in the blog conference): Are any of you familiar with a community of practice that uses a blog or a collection of blogs as their primary form of online interaction tool? If so, I’m very interested in talking to them as part of a tech study…

I nearly forgot I’m speaking at the N-TEN regional conference in SF tomorrow (Friday, August 20): N-TEN : 2004 SF Conference: Blogging

George snapped this one of me recharging my iBook, Tuatha de Danaan, with his power outlet: J.D. Lasica posted a bunch of great photos at New Media Musings. I’ll get around to posting my famous patented blurry / “action” photos when I get a moment free (ha!). Reminder to self: I still have George’s power…

Chris Shipley is introducing Guidewire as a social media company, and she just defined social media as “media as a contact sport.” She says that Guidewire coined the term social media. Is that right? I know Mary Hodder’s been using a lot recently but I haven’t found the earliest online cite.

Maybe someone at BlogOn can help me with my upcoming Boston blog-marathon. I figured out why my conventionology index was showing all recent entries to Telegraph and not just my conventionology categories from various blogs. MT Global Listings doesn’t support categories. Ouch. I love that thing. It makes most of my sites work the way…

I’ve been asked to co-host a blogger dinner next Friday evening, July 23rd, in association with the BlogOn Conference’s blog. Yes, it’s BlogOn’s Blog’s Blogger Dinner by and for Bloggers, with a side of Blogging. I’m actually thrilled. My secret confession is that I like dinner parties better than panel discussions. The cool thing is…

I’ve caught the wiki bug at last. I’ve been puttering around on various wikis for a few years now and I saw the pros and cons but it finally took Flying Meat’s VoodooPad desktop wiki-like thing for Mac OS X to really turn my head around. Now I can’t see how I ever lived without…

Tom Coates is a cutie Originally uploaded by Stewart. Posted by xian from The still-in-beta flickr YASNS has recently added a blog bridge that enables you to post anyone’s photos to just about any kind of weblog (it speaks Atom, too). You don’t get to edit the boilerplate stuff (the stuff that appears above what…