Category: The Power of Many

This sounds llike a cool idea (Bright Lightbulb Overhead: LATimes.com Goes Wiki): I won’t believe this until I see it launched and operating unmolested by higher-ups for a good month or so, but barely a month after relaunching a cleaner, freer web site, LATimes.com is planning to launch a wiki to invite public comment and…

Via Waxy.org links comes news of yet another feed reader, FeedLounge that offers tagging along with some NetNewsWire-type features, such as saving feed entries forever and flagging entries. It supports all browsers and imports OPML, naturally. Currently in an invite-only alpha. The web-based feedreader market is getting crowded. When will they start doing more dynamic…

From this post at Am I Patriotic it sounds like plans to develop an open source meeting scheduler to replace Meetup continue afoot.

Sharper eyes than mine have caught Bret Schundler’s campaign website compositing images taken from the Dean campaign (Thank God I’m Not a Republican!): Separated at Birth: Bret Schundler and Howard Dean: One photo was taken at a 2004 Dean for President rally sponsored by the American University College Democrats in Washington, D.C. The other photo…

Steve Gillmor, a champion of the attention.xml concept, wonder whether there is an inalienable right to not just our own data but also the data describing our “gestures” and the record of where we’ve spent our attention. These are not easy questions to muddle through as the urge to monetize Web 2.0 heats up all…

Hmm, seems like I could have added a pro-technology perspective to the proceedings (Geodog: A night at the Oh-So Berkeley CyberSalon): As long time readers know, I love the People’s Republic of Berkeley, foibles and all, and have celebrated its wonderful quirks in my writing and photography for the last 3 years, and even been…