Category: The Power of Many

Aaron Swartz is building infogami in public. So far, it lets you set up a site more or less instantly(junkyard) and edit it like a wiki. The site comes with a blog. Not sure what else it’s going to do. Looks like there are Google text ads down the side. Guess that’s the business model.…

danah boyd has posted her “crib notes” for a talk she gave at an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in February, Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace. Worth reading for everyone curious (or fretting) about MySpace’s popularity with the young.

The good folks at Participatory Culture have unveiled a key component of their “Democracy Internet TV” platform, the desktop Democracy Player software (for Windows only, so far): > This Windows version, while still in beta, means that we now have a complete set of tools for democratizing online video — and marks the beginning of…

Interesting trend over on Kos of late. Senators and reps have been posting on Kos for at least a year or two. The first one I happen to remember was from Senator Boxer, and folks just loved her for it. But the frequency of these big-name-posts has definitely been on the rise, especially over the…

I’ve always felt (and I said this all over the book) that it was wrong to think that the Internet inherently isolates people or makes them behave antisocially. A Pew report issued Wednesday, supports the idea the use of the Internet expands social contact: > The Pew Internet and American Life Project also finds that…

It looks like Dan Gillmor is rebooting. Bayosphere didn’t work out exactly as he had hoped, but he’s got a new project already launched in cooperation with UC Berkeley’s J-School and a star-studded cast of advisors. I wonder if the Pajamas Media guys are watching?