Category: The Power of Many

Lazy Independence Day reblogging, quoting from Blog While You Book NYT: For years, book authors have used the Internet to publicize their work and to keep in touch with readers. Several, like John Battelle, are now experimenting with maintaining blogs while still in the act of writing their books.

Tantek (among others?) has launched a site to promote XHTML-based microformats as a microcontent solution building on existing standards. (Boy, poking my head into Yahoo 360 sure gets me up to speed on industry buzz quickly. Then again, that’s more a function of the social network I brought with me and a bit of currentness…

My Web 2.0 looks like some kind of taglicious social search engine.

As the LA Times seemed to have learned, perhaps editorials aren’t the best context for publicly editable wiki-ing. Wikis seem to work best when used to build a repository of information by people who share a common goal or ethos. I wrote about this last week at Personal Democracy Forum in an article my editors…

It seems that the wiki got slashdotted, which lead to pr0n being posted (goatse, I wonder?), and the site being removed in response: Full Circle Online Interaction Blog: LA Times WikiTorial Update – vandalized. (via Nancy White, via Weblogsky)

In the POM book I talk about a technology practice that I refer to as ARM, meaning “activist relationship management,” modeled on the idea of CRM (customer relationship management). ARM is big business these days (see Personal Democracy Forum’s coverage of the flap over ARM vendor Convio’s policies regarding who they will work with as…