Category: The Power of Many

Quoting from Introduction to Activism on the Internet: John of Social Design Notes has built an excellent resource in “An Introduction to Activism on the Internet”, touching on key issues like the role of geography and gender in access, privacy and anonymity, and current topics like advocacy tools, and blogging. Timely, accessible, and attractive.

Checking my ego feed in my news aggregator yesterday I saw that two bloggers had posted reviews of the book. The first, Scot Hacker, a personal friend and longtime web colleague, liked the book quite a lot, calling it “an exploration – at turns straightforwardly journalistic, nearly stream-of-consciousness, and scholarly – on the transformative power…

Almost posted about this here first but instead filed it over at Radio Free Blogistan: Kottke at the mercy of his readers. Interesting test of the “power of many” to support the blogging work of one.

Quoting from There are Feeds and Then There are Feeds And about a year ago, I started adding Technorati watchlists, as well as Feedster and Pubsub search feeds, and del.icio.us, Furl and flickr feeds on tags, and looking up terms on Blogpulse and Bloglines, to see who linked to my blog, wrote about key words…

Jay’s book is entitled Gatekeepers without Gates and if it’s anything like his wonderful weblog, it will become required reading for anyone who cares about the future of the press and the impact of the living web on the media in general. (Announcement: PressThink: Publishing News at PressThink)

I haven’t taken this software out for a spin yet, but WikidPad (WikidPad – wiki notebook/outliner for windows) appears to be fairly similar to my favorite OS X application, Voodoo Pad. I find the wiki format to be a convenient and addictive way to take notes and link together lists and work in progress.