Category: The Power of Many

Quoting from Electronic Business – Blogs for business? – 1/1/2005 – Electronic Business – CA489801: The hullabaloo surrounding the blog has obscured what it is. It’s not complex—it’s simply a Web site that lets its owner (and anyone to whom that owner gives permission) post comments, links to other Web sites and documents, all without…

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, blog readership went way up in 2004. A January report using November data says: 27% of adult U.S. Internet users read blogs (up from 17% in February). The number of blog readers is increasing faster than the number of blog creators. 12% have posted or commented…

This spring, Lawrence Lessig will try to get his 1999 book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace updated by wiki for paper publication later in the year. He’s inviting volunteers to serve as “Chapter Captains”; Lessig will donate his advance and royalties to Creative Commons. (Link via The Volokh Conspiracy.)

Reading Building an Address Book as a Modern Web App, I see that deus x has brought up another major facet of the personal social-network web app I’m speccing out in my mind: So, in the spirit of pico-projects, I’ve started building that address book application I mentioned awhile ago and I want to start…

In The Graphing Calculator Story, the author explains how a useful software utility for the Macintosh PowerPC was developed (almost) entirely by stealth: I view the events as an experiment in subverting power structures. I had none of the traditional power over others that is inherent to the structure of corporations and bureaucracies. I had…

Quoting from Susan Mernit’s blog: Ever see someone you know get really famous for what they’ve accomplished?It’s definitely happening to Craig, whose Craigslist has the media marveling. The latest story, in Newsweek, has a clever pix of Craig with “Where the Wild Things Are” fuzzy feet.Quote: “…The list is a sleeping economic giant that’s already…