Category: The Power of Many

I’ve become a little more understanding about the lame robotic invitations that are suggested by default by most social network services when you invite a new member. I’ve been told that providing the user with a canned invitation instead of requiring that the user write their own increases the utility of the invitation service. At…

Quoting from Darknet: The Installments (at Joho the blog): JD Lasica is beginning to post long installments from his entertaining new book, Darknet: Hollywood’s War against the Digital Generation. First up: The story of some teen film-makers. He’ll also be posting new material. [Technorati tag: drm]

People for the American Way are preparing to create a telephonic flash mob if the Senate votes on the filibuster rule. With the Nuclear Option’s timing in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s hands, there won’t be enough warning to send out an email alert the moment he drops the bomb on the Senate. But we…

I’m at PDF2005 at CUNY in New York city today. I moderated a panel called “Tools and Ideas for Empowering the Edges” in the morning, so I’m off-duty now, able to participate as an audience member and on the really snarky backchannel chat. Right now Micah Sifry is interviewing Andy Stern of the SEIU. More…

Quoting from Everything is miscellaneous: I haven’t yet figured out exactly how I want to handle blogging the writing of the book. I don’t think I want to put a blog at EverythingIsMiscellaneous.com (there’s nothing there yet because I’ve had some domain issues) because researching and writing this book isn’t an isolated act for me.…

Clay Shirky congratulates his students who developed Dodgeball and have now sold it to Google Gmail, Orkut, and now Dodgeball all touch this issue. Dodgeball in particular is built on a mix of three different kinds of maps: maps of location (118 rivington St), maps of place (a bar called The Magician), and maps of…