Category: The Power of Many

  • Blogging to be viewed by the FEC as an in-kind political donation?

    Quoting from FEC May Regulate Blogging – by Michael Bassik at the Personal Democracy Forum blog: Bloggers and online-only journalists might have to report their hyperlinks, articles, and postings as in-kind political contributions. This according to a CNET interview with Bradley Smith, one of the six FEC commissioners. Talk of a potential rule change follows…

  • Wists visual bookmark friends network

    I’m making my plans for SXSW and getting tips from experienced attendees like George aand Austin residents like Sarah about what to do. Sarah reminded me of the 20×2 event (20 speakers, one question, two minutes each). Looking over the participant list I recognized a few names right off the bat (Dave Shea, David Galbraith,…

  • Person-to-person networking as a social panacea

    Quoting from Could Social Networking Save the World? Rob Paterson has penned a long and extraordinary article suggesting that social networking tools, building on a foundation of finding and connecting and relating tools including weblogs, could be used to cut out the corporate and government middlemen everywhere, usurp the existing economy and power authority, and…

  • What is open source marketing?

    One of the two panels I’m speaking on at this year’s South by Southwest Interactive conference (in just under two weeks), is on the subject of Open Source Marketing, with Firefox as a case in point. To prepare for the panel, I’ve been doing some online research and I’ll be posting the links here mainly…

  • Nurturing the long tail

    I’m continually impressed by the thinking and writing of Stephen Downes, who was also, I believe, the first person to perform Blogistan Pie before a live audience. In the abovelinked post, Community Blogging, Downes explored some ideas about how a self-organizing community of bloggers might subvert the dominant power-law dynamics. Highly recommended.

  • Draft of first chapter on the Red Couch

    Quoting Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger: First chapter posted on our corporate blogging book We’ve posted our first chapter over on the Red Couch. Steve Lacey already praised it. Thanks! Bob Wyman, founder of my favorite blog search engine, Pubsub.com, wonders if the book will still be useful by the time it’s published. Yes, what is…