Category: The Power of Many

Looks like Corante’s got another blog (Operating Manual for Social Tools) that I should be following here at POM. Where does David Weinberger find the time to contribute to so many weblogs? Also, I’m a little unclear of the overlap between this and other Corante blogs, such as Many-to-Many (to which danah and David contribute)…

A squad of TPM readers are outing congressfolks in the Republican caucus on how they voted on the DeLay Rule: Quoting from Ch-ch-ch-changes Rare is the PDF reader who doesn’t also read Josh Marshall’s TalkingPointsMemo but what’s going on there today is so interesting that I think it’s worth everyone paying close attention. Marhall has…

As I just posted over at Personal Democracy Forum (Trippi says blogs driving Kerry camp’s interest in recount): On MSNBC’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann has been one of the few television newshosts tracking down the issues related to counting and recounting votes and addressing potential voting irregularities (such as voter fraud and suppression), particularly in the…

By far, Steve Rubel’s MicroPersuasion blog has been my favorite lately, especially for news and ideas related to blogging itself. Perhaps this site should have a featured recommended blog that can rotate whenever I get addicted to a new one? I already push headlines from a lot of weblogs relevant to the book on the…

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In The Rise of Open-Source Politics, Micah L. Sifry discusses the influence of the new grassroots technologists on the past year’s campaign: Josh Koenig, one of the twenty-somethings who cut their teeth at the Dean campaign and a co-founder of Music for America, says, “We’re only seeing the first drips of what is going to…

in RConversation: Blogger Corps?, Rebecca MacKinnon writes: In the final wrap-up session of Bloggercon III, I suggested that socially conscious members of the blogging community (of all political persuasions) might want to organize a “Blogger Corps.” Through it, bloggers could donate their time to help poorly funded activists or non-profit groups to figure out what…

In Blog Post Spurs Potential Legal Trouble for Electronic Arts (Micro Persuasion), Steve Rubel writes: The San Francisco Examiner reports that an anonymous writer who claims to be the spouse of an Electronic Arts employee has sparked an online venting session, drawing hundreds of disgruntled employees out of their shells to complain of slave-like work…

in Kevin Sites: photoblogging Falluja, Boing Boing : “Xeni Jardin: Link”

Say, no one told me Skype had come out for the Macintosh (as of October 25!). This is great news. I’ve been waiting to try this out. All the kool kidz are using Skype (a free Internet telephony solution): Download Skype for Mac OS X

Back on October 19, Tech Nation with Dr. Moira Gunn aired an interview with me which is now available for listening online in Real Audio format. I’d like to get the Bloomberg interview in some online format as well (note to self). Also, now that I’ve kicked this bronchitis and election season is past, it’s…

With the hard launch of Firefox 1.0, Google appears to be hosting a Mozilla Firefox Start Page that will probably help with bandwidth management. Andy Baio calls Firefox “the best consumer product out of the open-source movement.”

In How BC04 made better use of its email list, Daily Kos points to Bush vs. Kerry: Email Newsletters Rated, usability maven Jakob Nielsen’s “interesting analysis” in his Alertbox web column: Although I don’t actually claim that Bush won because of usability, I do think that wise use of email newsletters contributed to his victory.…

Dave Winer’s unconference BloggerCon is having its third second annual instance this weekend at Stanford. I am mostly following it in my aggregrator: Lobbycon is always one of the best parts of any conference; hanging in the courtyard and talking to folks – both people I’ve read and not met, and friends and colleagues I…

The editors of the Personal Democracy Forum have asked a number of experienced activists and commentators to take a first look back at the events of the last 18 months and identify the biggest impact technology has had on politics. The first responses are now featured over there (Election 2004: Lessons for the Future, part…

Steve Rubel’s Micropersuasion weblog is bursting with great insights into blogs, public relations, and the way conversations are changing marketing online. I find that in the first year or so of a new blog from an insightful weblogger like Steve you get a lot of great thinking about the medium itself. Old burnouts like myself…

Jed Miller writes about building town blogs at Personal Democracy Forum (another site I contribute to): Mark Glaser of OJR keeps a steady eye on the encounter between journalism and the Internet. In today’s article he uses the lovely coinage “town blog” to describe a wave of new “hyperlocal” citizen media sites. There’s really good…

Looks like Chuck Olsen’s movie is ready for prime time: Just noticed that Chuck Olsen’s film Blogumentary is premiering in Minneapolis on November 5th. Chuck started working on this – and posting – in 2003 saying: We live in an age where everyone is a mediamaker. Blogs empower us to tell our story, spout and…

On the Creative Commons blog, Neeru Paharia writes about the beta version of The Publisher, an application that enables anyone to publish content with a creative commons license and host it permanently at archive.org: Leveraging the Internet Archive‘s generous offer to host Creative Commons licensed (audio and video) files for free, we recently completed the…

Scot Hacker has been exploring the various wiki applications (Where’s the Movable Type of the Wiki World?) and though he settled on MediaWiki for the purpose of a Berkeley class, he says he’s still waiting for a “killer app” wiki.

We’re waiting for the dust to settle around provisional ballots and the like but it appears that despite the distributed efforts of a revitalized liberal movement to get out the vote and mobilize as many supporters as possible, the Republicans managed to poll 3 million more popular votes than the Democrats in this presidential election.…