Category: The Power of Many

  • First the LA Times, now the US Government

    The Onion, America’s Finest News Source, reports: Congress Abandons WikiConstitution: WASHINGTON, DC – Congress scrapped the open-source, open-edit, online version of the Constitution Monday, only two months after it went live. “The idea seemed to dovetail perfectly with our tradition of democratic participation,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said. “But when so-called ‘contributors’ began loading…

  • Katrina PeopleFinder project

    Over the long weekend I witnessed a flurry of email messages from the network of activist techies and techie activists I’m connected to since the Dean campaign and the work on this book. Some of this coalesced into the PeopleFinder project to help cross-correlate all the missing persons and I’m OK data being gathered across…

  • Echo Chamber Project launches vlog

    A few weeks ago, Kent Bye, director of the Echo Chamber project, tipped me off to a new vlog (video [web] log) he’s producing. This first episode includes an animation that tries to illustrate the folksonomy concept as well as interviews “about the upcoming media revolution” conducted at the most recent Personal Democracy Forum. He…

  • Wildbit report on online social networks

    Chris Nagele from Wildbit gave me a head’s up about a 35-page report on social networks his company is offering for download as an Acrobat file free of charge: Social Networks Report He says My company, Wildbit, is currently working on a social network and community web site. Part of the research to understand and…

  • Women are from strong, men are from weak

    I’m in the Saturday morning opening session at blogher, which is about whether women should “learn to play by the rules” or “change the rules.” danah boyd just got up to clarify a misstatement claiming that women don’t do social networking as much as men do. danah explained that women and men (tend to) do…

  • GoingOn will be a network of social networks

    Lots of buzz around this week about Marc Canter et al. announcing the GoingOn network, a meta social network that will provide a platform for stitching together existing social network and digital identity systems and standards, or something like that. JD Lasica interviewed Valerie Cunningham for a better explanation of what’s going to be going…