Category: People Power

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…

Chris Pirillo just sent a notice via orkut pre-announcing Gnomedex 4.0, which may not be the best conference for “we stopped drinking” geeks. I really wanted to go last year and my schedule didn’t permit. I think my late September is wide open, so chances are I will make it this time.

Wow, danah boyd took me to school (without naming any names, which was kind of her) and I’m learning a difficult lesson. Over at misbehaving.net, she writes in sexist jokes and Orkut invites about a note I sent to the group of people there marked as my “friends.” What happened was that I saw as…

From: “Ben Brown” <member@orkut.com> To: “Christian Crumlish” Subject: Re: is orkut over? Dude, you should really stop with the friends-of-friends messages. I have no idea who you are. This message was sent by Ben Brown to Christian Crumlish.