Category: The Power of Many

According to Tom Burka at the hilarious Opinions You Should Have: Dave Johnson of Seeing The Forest, a liberal who knows more about the history of the Republican Party than many Republicans, is helping Joe Trippi and MSNBC keep their hands on the pulse of the blogosphere during the coming election. Dave is blogging at…

Greg Palast reports a man videotaping early voters in Florida Steve Garfield will be watching the polls and posting his findings on his video blog as he did in Massachusetts during the primaries, when he checked the compliance of campaign workers with voting regulations (150 Feet). Jon Lebkowski points me to a new site called…

I’ll be at the Technorati Party in SF, Thursday Oct 28 party this evening. I never added it to my Upcoming.org event calendar feed since I wasn’t sure it was OK to enter it over there. I’m still looking for a good virtual book tour management system! I may stick a box of my books…

The essay collection, Extreme Democracy, edited by Mitch Ratliffe and Jon Lebkowsky, has been coming out in PDF form published via the book’s blog. (I imagine there’s a wiki in the works as well.) Adina Levin’s chapter on Campaign Tools should be required reading for any activist. (Now I’m off to Personal Democracy Forum to…

Rob Goodspeed correlates creativity and online culture on his blog (On "Cool Cities" and Blogs): My theory: cities with the richest local online culture (measured in number of blogs, and use of a select group of other geographically-bound websites) will reflect those cities with the highest numbers of creative class people. He also notes that…

Jon Stahl looks at the success of the online campaign to punish the Sinclair TV network for planning to make its affiliates air an anti-Kerry film under the rubric of news (A new network takes on an old one… and wins!). The network aired a watered-down, balanced show that included clips of a pro-Kerry film…

Just a reminder that a public interview is underway in the Well’s Inkwell conference (The Power of Many: Many in the inkwell). So far, the discussion has been pretty wide ranging and everyone is welcome to participate.

Adam Bosworth writes: The platform of this decade isn’t going to be around controlling hardware resources and rich UI. Nor do I think you’re going to be able to charge for the platform per se. Instead, it is going to be around access to community, collaboration, and content. And it is going to be mass…

I’ve always felt that presidential elections are, on one level, a competition between narratives. In one sense, people vote for a story, not necessarily for a protagonist or even an ending. We’ve seen that supporters of the two parties each are looking at almost entirely different realities. Last Sunday the Suskind article in the Times…

It seems that logging is a no-brainer. Systems already can do journaling and to the computer (by which I mean a central processing unit) everything happens in a totally linear way as it is. The real trick of what we today call blogging is to determine what information to make public to anyone, what information…

My interview with Dan Gillmor in the Well’s public Inkwell conference has come to a close and Jon Lebkowsky’s interview with me in that same venue has now begun, concurrent with Lisa Goldman’s interview with Farai Chideya of Your Call Radio. We’ll be popping up in each other’s interviews as our topics are nicely interrelated.…

Aldon Hynes, who reviewed my book at Amazon and on his Orient Lodge weblog also started a discussion about the book in the book club group of the Omidyar Network. Soon afterward, Marnie Webb from CompuMentor and Tech Soup and N-Ten (whom I met in person when we appeared on a panel together at the…

Zogby doesn’t think so (Edgewise: Simon World blogs Zogby’s Hong Kong talk): The impact of the Internet has been huge. In 1996 about 4% of voters got most of their political information from the net. In 2000 it was 31%. For 2004 it will be in excess of 50%. The second key impact has been…

Anil Dash (An unkind community) wonders if the tenor of (at least) the political blogosphere has reached a point of no return in terms of loss of civility and mob behavior (as when a popular political blogger “sics” his readers on someone espousing an unpopular viewpoint): I wonder if there’s any other steps we can…

Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry have relaunched Personal Democracy Forum. The site will run two or more feature articles a week, and shorter blog entries on blog time. There’s also a newswire pointing to interesting stories about the politics and technology, a list of the most influential political weblogs, and a dynamic, Technorati-driven list of…

Larry Lessig, Aaron Swartz, and others have put together p2p-Politics as a way of enabling people to point each other to political ads online. From the site’s FAQ: Does this have anything to do with p2p filesharing? It is peer-to-peer, or people-to-people, but the files are not themselves shared. Only links to files are shared.…

Last week Jon Stewart put down Tucker Carlson on the latter’s CNN show. Today, Jeff Jarvis lays out how the publicity afterward exemplifies the living Web: Welcome to the future of TV! In old TV, a moment like this came and if you missed it, you missed it. Tough luck. In new TV, you don’t…

Friday morning I got up at the crack of dawn to make a phone appearance on WJR AM in Detroit (news/talk at 760 on the AM dial). That was fun. Then this morning at 6:05 am I spoke with Jim Sharpe on KTAR in Phoenix, the number one news station in the Phoenix metropolitan area,…

danah boyd, who’s made a practice of studying how younger people use social media (as contrasted with how we old fogeys tend to do so), noted recently (apophenia: a culture of feeds: syndication and youth culture) that the Web 2.0 “excitement” about RSS and syndicated feeds and suchlike may be missing the fact that it…

Matthew Yglesias takes a look at the organizing effort from the left blogosphere to oppose the Sinclair TV network’s plans to air an anti-Kerry film on the eve of the election. These activities aren’t limited to one ideological camp. The right blogosphere drummed up the swift vets story and complained about it not getting covered…

My publicist sent out a press release today relating The Power of Many to the online post-debate spin efforts discussed in an entry I posted after the first debate. In it, she quoted mistakenly affiliating Joe Scarborough with FOX when in fact his show is aired by MSNBC. I’m sorry for this error I made…