Category: The Power of Many

Jon Udell’s got another wonderful “screencast” up: The on-demand blogosphere. I’ve been a fan of Jon’s since he was narrating his content-management system learnings for Byte Magazine. These days he’s pioneering a bleeding edge that the rest of us will get to only when it doesn’t require customizing one’s own interface to the degree he’s…

In Define “Journalist”, Scot Hacker says: At the J-School, we’ve been exploring the question of whether bloggers are journalists for a couple of years, in both classroom experiments and in conferences that have drawn fascinated/scared journalists and the blogging elite from around the world. The question can often be boiled down like this: Journalists may…

I’m headed off to Austin next week to attend South by Southwest Interactive for my first time, something I’ve been meaning to do now for a number of years. On Sunday, March 13, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm I’m on a panel called Open Source Marketing: The New Unwieldy / Unlimited Product Publicity. On Tuesday,…

In his Fresh Books Blog (Do you need an agent in the tech book market?), literary agent Matt Wagner points to a discussion about agents, how they earn their 15% and how useful they are in today’s business climate, taking place on the weblog of Joe Wikert, an editor at Wiley (Agents: Do You Need…

Seb Paquet points us to this International Symposium on Wikis, currently in the midst of a call for papers and presentations. Should be interesting. Perhaps I can come up with something to submit.

Quoting from The great FEC scare. This interview with FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith, warning that political bloggers may soon be subject to draconian regulation as a consequence of McCain-Feingold, has been linked to from all over the blogosphere. I’m frankly not sure how seriously to take it, because in all honesty I don’t entirely trust…