Category: The Power of Many

  • Ad hoc blog workshop at the Sierra Summit?

    When I posted about my panel at the Sierra Summit, Philippe Boucher wrote in suggesting we try to arrange for bloggers to meet at the conference or to offer some sort of workshop or hand’s on event for people interested in blogging: Maybe this conference deserves more than a half hour on Saturday about the…

  • More on canned invitations

    Laura Lemay just sent me a LinkedIn invitation that made me laugh out loud (or LOL), although I realize that it would only be funny to a geek: #include <linkedinsuckup.h>

  • Last week's Onion

    Picked up a print copy of the Onion in a coffee bar yesterday and saw they had taken the piss out of online social networks (The Onion | 13 July 2005 | Infograph). Because the link will rot eventually, I stole the graphic, too.

  • News Corp acquires MySpace

    Quoting from Waxy.org Links: News Corp buys MySpace for $580 million: holy cow Lots of kids and bands on that site.

  • Principles of social networking

    The always-insightful How to Save the World blog by Dave Pollard (repeatedly misnamed in my book as “How to Change the World” for I don’t know what reason – brain damage, most likely) recently published an entry abstracting seven principles of social networking. It’s one of Dave’s shorter posts, too, so don’t be afraid to…

  • Sierra Summit 2005

    I’ll be speaking at the Sierra Summit on Saturday afternoon from 11:30 to 12:30 PM, on a panel in the Working Smart sequence called “Technology and Organizing: A Civics Laboratory.” The panel features Joan Blades from MoveOn and Zack Rosen from Civicspace as well as myself, so we should have a lively conversation and be…