Category: The Power of Many

The first time I heard about BzzAgent was at South by Southwest this year, when I was on a panel about open source marketing and Jason Calacanis brought it up as a negative example, explaining that the agency’s methods involved inducing agents to shill for their clients in the guise of ordinary social interaction. Invite…

Quoting from How to interest more girls in tech careers at Misbehaving: Jacquelynne Eccles, a University of Michigan psychologist, says that girls steer away from careers in math, science and engineering because they view them as solitary pursuits: “In order to increase the number of women in science, we also need to make young women…

With Yahoo! 360º – Yahoo! 360 Product Blog, the Yahoo 360 team is eating its own dogfood in public, but can any group of people (or Yahoo! Group) have its own blog there, or is this just a custom work-around?

Chris Nolan guested a week or so at PressThink with The Stand Alone Journalist is Here…. Be sure to read if you’re interested in the impact of blogging and syndication on journalism.

Today I are one! OK, I’ve dabbled in journalism before, but it’s been a while and it was mostly in the tech trade press. Today my first article has been published at Personal Democracy Forum, Meetup Says Put Up or Shutdown: On April 12, Meetup.com dropped a bomb on its users: the online group organizing…

Quoting from All-Podcast, All-the-Time Radio: A San Francisco radio station is going to start airing nothing but user-submitted podcasts beginning on May 16. The station, which calls itself KYOU Open Source Radio, will broadcast on 1550-AM/San Francisco and the Internet. Submitted podcasts must be 60 megabytes or less in size and can be in any…