Category: The Power of Many

Yesterday I engaged in a long interview / discussion with Tom Moroney, one of the hosts of Simply Put, a politics-oriented show on Bloomberg Radio. We got into some fairly interesting areas, such as questions about whether the Internet is a social or antisocial medium, and how you can trust the credibility or authority of…

After Jerome Armstrong posted a nice blurb about the book at MyDD and Daily Kos, a long discussion thread has ensued, mainly at dKos. Stirling Newberry, of BOPnews (and formerly the Draft Clark movement) objects to our use of the word many in the book’s title, seeing it as code for old-school mass-media broadcasting (Daily…

I’ve been meaning to blog about Paper Airplane since April when I first read about it at the Nanopublishing weblog, which got it from hatch.org: Flying the Two Way Web. Technically, it’s a Mozilla plug-in, but implementation details aside, what’s intriguing about it is the way it builds on the P2P model to faciliate ad-hoc…

Today we begin an interview in the Well’s public Inkwell.vue conference. In it, I am talking to Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News columnist and weblogger and author We the Media. We have crossed paths a few times in the past year while working on our respective books and I expect a lot of complementary…

In the process of interviewing people for the book I would often end up extracting the most salient bits you can find to illustrate points in the words of my sources. Inevitably, there would be other fine nuggets of observation that would end up on the cutting-room floor. Because of the relatively unlimited space online…

By the time you’ve heard of a popular band they often represent a kind of supergroup built out of the hottest bands from some microscene you’ve generally never heard of. Via Andy Baio’s Waxy Links I stumbled upon

Here’s the blog ad Miles Kurland just designed for us (based, of course, on the beautiful cover design):

Scott Rosenberg has also been blogging Web 2.0 and his view of this moment in the evolution of the web- as- a- business platform is instructive: What we’re seeing is that a lot of the ideas and technologies that have incubated over the last couple of years, and have been showcased at places like the…

Women’s-right website Failure is Impossible offers a primer for countering astroturf letters- to- the- editor campaigns (Fight Back Against Killer Astroturf). The page explains how repetition of boilerplate language in letters to the editor of newspapers can be detected through web searches for key phrases. It targets Republican astroturfing but admonishes astroturf-sources on the left…

Jeff Jarvis is “eventblogging” the Web 2.0 conference. I’m just glad they didn’t call it Bubble 2.0.

Somewhat reminiscent of the Hollywood movie of a few years ago called Pay It Forward, One Million Acts describes itself as … an event that is driven by the Urban Leadership Foundation (ULF), with the goal of funding job training in low-skilled, low-education, low-income urban areas. The vision for graduates of the ULF’s Job Training…

Daily Kos (a Dem-friendly political community) has been going through some growing pains over the last few weeks, triggered in part by the departure of Theoria, a popular and well-established poster. dKos founder Markos Moulitsas has put up an interesting post over the weekend addressing the subject. In the process, he talks about the lifecycle…

Not content with the track record of the Democratic party or its surrogates in winning the post-debate meta-debate media framesetting in the 2000 election, left/liberal online activists circulated chain mail messages online yesterday, itemizing the contact email addresses and websites of the major print and cable TV news and punditry outlets with a concerted effort…

OK, it’s just for one day, but it’s still an interesting idea: So, you want to manage my campaign for a day?

via Susan Mernit’s Blog: Politics & the Net: Free online discussion this Tuesday: “There’s a free online discussion on The Impact of Participatory Media on Election 2004 happening this Tuesday, October 5, 2004 from 2:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. Eastern U.S. Time Brought to you by The Media Center, a think tank examining the intersection…

A lot of talk online today about the flaws in the most recent presidential Gallup poll – specifically, oversampling Republicans. Kos writes: Just got off the phone with a reporter from USA Today who is writing a story on potential problems with the Gallup poll, and the liberal blogosphere’s work in bringing attention to the…

Peter Beinart at Time has an analysis of the election that suggest, suprise suprise, that with Iraq back as a major campaign issue, maybe Dean may not have been such a poor choice of a nomineee (TIME.com: If Howard Dean Were the Candidate … — Oct. 04, 2004): Political punditry is harder than it looks.…

A Syracuse paper which published an article that was skeptical about the how authoritative an online collaborative encyclopedia could be has now published a front-page article that is much more positive about wikis (Syracuse.com: NewsFlash – ‘Wikis’ offer knowledge-sharing online). The article even picks up on my (not that I own it) preference for referring…

J.D. Lasica researches how sites end up on Google News (and why certain political opinions dominate there). He contrasts Yahoo! News’ human approach with Google News’ algorithm-only one; Yahoo says the person-powered one is actually faster.

Cecil pointed out to me that we haven’t really kept up with the latest weblogs- meet- the-power-of-many storyline in which legions of skeptical bloggers took down the mighty Dan Rather and CBS over the AWOLgate forged documents. He’s probably right and I shouldn’t let my pinko biases keep me from acknowledging a situation where the…

Leuschke’s links pointed me to TiddlyWiki – a reusable non-linear personal web notebook, a very cool implementation of the wiki concept with an entirely fresh way of presenting the reader’s path. Visit the site and start clicking some links to see what I mean.