Category: The Power of Many

An essay I’ve struggled with writing for Jay Rosen about how the New York Times and other newspapers could become full citizens of the web has eluded me as I continue to mull over the possibilities, but in the meantime, it looks like some folks aren’t waiting for the major media to open themselves up…

Scoble pointed me to Why I’m Not Smoking the Podcasting Dope by Darren Barefoot. Some good points in there about why podcasting is not like blogging and won’t have the same legs.

Quoting from the term social software (danah boyd), which I meant to post six months ago when it first appeared… Christopher Allen does an excellent job of tracing the history of the term ‘social software’ – a resource for us all. Of course, i still despise the term (sorry Clay) and its (ab)usage. The term…

Popular social bookmark site del.icio.us, widely credited with helping to popularize the current tagging craze, has accepted venture capital funding that will enable creator Joshua Schachter to devote his energy to developing the service full-time, as reported by Schachter himself in a post to the [delicious-discuss] mailing list. Congratulations, Joshua!

Quoting from The LitKicks Board Archive (I interviewed Levi and discussed Literary Kicks in the book): In January 2001, I was playing around with some Java software at work when I heard the poet Gregory Corso had died. I decided to try this new software out by putting up a Corso tribute board, and this…

Andy Baio IM’d me this morning to alert me to the new version of Upcoming.org (Upcoming.org: News: Huge Changes!). Improvements includes the following: Personal and self-promotional events now permitted / enabled. Tagging! A RESTful developer’s API. Upgraded, more legible design. E-mail/SMS Reminders.