Category: The Power of Many

Today is the official publication date for the book. w00t! It will take a few weeks, though, for it to appear on most shelves. My mother has already asked me to drop by her neighborhood Barnes & Noble to make sure they’ll put it in the window.

Joyce Park has been fired from Friendster and assumes it’s because she blogged about her work. Ross Mayfield has a good, short take on who Park is, how it happened and, more importantly, where the implications are when a YASNS fires a blogger: There are so many threads in this to be explored. Employee blogging…

Topix.net comments on how general search engines still don’t do a good job of keeping up to date with incremental changes (most likely by scanning webfeeds) in The Daily Internet: The kind of searches I regularly do on Feedster and Technorati just aren’t available on Google. No amount of fiddling with the advanced search options,…

I was IMing with Dave Sifry last night (we’re both in New York for the RNC – he’s credentialed with CNN and I’m going commando). He showed me the new Election Watch 2004 page at Technorati. It tracks rising and falling mentions of sites, offers blogger commentary of various ilks side by side, and now…

According to AP via CNN, Olympians are prohibited from publishing their own stories and pictures. In fact, CNN’s headline said “largely barred from blogging”, but that implies that preventive measures are being taken; in fact, the IOC says that it hasn’t done anything to enforce the ban. Athletes may be the center of attention at…

Here are the main heads from Stuart Henshall’s Manifesto for Social Networking Required at his Unbound Spiral blog: It’s my Network I own it. Social networks should empower people. I am my own hub. Ease data exchange My Blog is Better at Networking Create Markets for Connectivity Adopt user centric models Encourage Face to Face…

[…] Man may not be a political animal, but he is certainly a social animal. Voters do respond to the cues of commentators and campaigners, but only when they can match those cues up with the buzz of their own social group. Individual voters are not rational calculators of self-interest …

In the about page at haughey.com, Matt Haughey explains how he wrangled phpwiki into shape to present an elegant, functional, standard-compliant site. I have even lower standards. I just want to get the wiki pages currently at x.erio.us to look like the rest of the site, and the templates that create phpwiki pages appear to…

I’m heading to New York this Saturday night so I can cover the Republican National Convention for this (and a few other) weblogs and then, after the Labor Day weekend, help support the official publication launch of the book. The book will be available in stores starting September 1, but we are timing the publicity…

Om Malik reports that Technorati has taken a(nother?) round of VC funding: Om Malik on Broadband: Technorati gets fed VC dollars Over on the wiki tip, Ross Mayfield’s been blogging about SocialText’s successfully completed round of funding as well. Remember, as soon as everyone catches on to blogs, you can hit them with “do you…

Tantek emailed me to point me to some responses to Clay Shirky’s mockery of XFN. I’ve been meaning to post a follow-up, since my headline was so snarky, and I’ve been busy working on this website and preparing for my trip to New York for the RNC and it’s been getting away from me, but…

In Weblogsky: Divide and Subtract, jonl, who sent me my first invitation into Multiply, contemplates leaving it entirely: Finally, today, I decided that Multiply really does suck, so I killed some of my data there and tried to find a way out. Finding none, I posted this image as my headshot (and you’re welcome to…

In Many-to-Many: XFN Relationships Clay Shirky convinces me that XFN is wack. But can we just pick a model and let people experiment with it? I don’t care if it’s FOAF or XFN or PeopleAggritude or whatever. What’s the best way to build out and model the part of my network I want to be…

Uh, I should have noted before today that I am speaking at N-TEN : 2004 San Francisco Regional Conference tomorrow (Friday, August 20), on the topic “What is Blogging and Why Should I Care?” or something to that effect. I;ve got to do a better job of alerting the public about my upcoming speaking events,…

While discussing Multiply on the Well, I was prompted to spew out my current thinking on digital identity and portable networks and what I wrote earned a “Nice rant, dude” from bumbaugh so I’ve included it here for the archives:

Now that review copies have been sent out to the first wave of media we are starting to get calls for in-studio appearances in New York around the time of the book’s launch (September 1). So the book tour is going to start there in New York in the end of August. I’ll stay in…

Apparently there’s yet another social network manager now. I received an invitation to join it from 3 people so far. Two of them are male, one isn’t and has never evidenced an inclination to be identified as such that I’m aware. The invitation read: Molly has added you as his contact on Multiply so he…

Keith Hampton has announced the launch of i-neighbors, a set of free web services for neighborhoods in Canada and the US inspired by the research into the connection between virtual and f2f communities done by himself and Barry Wellman. With their software you can Meet and communicate with your neighbors. Find neighbors with similar interests.…

Cliff Figallo, whom I’ve met via the Well and our blog conference there (likely to “graduate” from being an independent conference to a featured conference, next month, if current trends hold) is blogging his experience trying to use LinkedIn for business networking, in a Blogger-driven site called Working Linkedin.

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