Category: The Power of Many

Quoting from The Long Tail the book and the blog: Chris Anderson is writing a book about The Long Tail which started as one of my favorite articles that he wrote for Wired. He has also started a blog about the Long Tail. The original article is online at Wired.

Books We Like is trying to build a community of book-recommenders, and offers price-comparison shopping for recommended books. This is a good step in the direction of collabortive review communities. I often want to write about a book I’m reading on my blog but I’m frustrated by the impoverished data structure (cue Marc Canter, et…

Christian posted a long quote from the Berkman School living-web wonkfest last week. At that, Kerry online honcho Zach Exley told everyone that Kerry-Edwards focused too much on means and not enough on ends: The Democrats had no shortage of goatee-chinned web designers, but they were trounced by the Republicans’ superior top-down organization. “The difference…

Joi Ito fills up his Orkut dance card, wonders what happens after “game over” (The edge of Orkut): I just got the following message on Orkut. Limit reached for number of friends You have 1024 friends. You can only have up to 1000 friends. Before you can add more friends, you need to remove friends.…

Quoting from Greensboro sees birth of new alternative media: A new kind of alternative press is emerging in Greensboro. The writers are local people who publish at their own Web sites. As individuals, these bloggers offer reporting and commentary that is useful, provocative and addictive. Collectively, they are building what could become the most important…

When we both get a moment free I’m going to interview Dan Gillmor about his new venture for the Power of Many weblog. In the meantime, this interview in Quoting from OhmyNews International gives some insight into what he’s got in mind: One of the great things about the democratization of media is that people…