Category: People Power

Sacramento Bee columnist has been publishing his California Insider weblog since April, but with the recall craziness, his blogged insights are especially welcome, giving us a glimpse into the chaos that is California’s governance. One of his readers likens webloggers to courtiers, but haven’t journalists always behaved like a gossipy jockeying court, especially capital press…

Howard Dean’s presidential campaign has already distinguished itself by its savvy embrace of the Internet and weblogs (or “chatrooms” as I heard one uncomfortable political pundit refer to them on NPR a few weeks back) and the wellspring of enthusiasm coming from the grassroots. It’s not surprising when you consider that they’ve been taking advice…

So it occurred to me a month or so ago that the best potential use of the Dead Beat website might be to set it up as a Wiki. Wikis are, among other things, highly collaborative websites. See, for example, the Grateful Dead entry in the Wikipedia, a project building an entirely collaborative encyclopedia. Technically,…