Category: The Power of Many

Quoting from “We the Media” Author Has New Venture at Personal Democracy Forum (by Micah L. Sifry): The biggest news I have to report so far from Harvard’s “Votes, Bits and Bytes” conference is that Dan Gillmor–one of the first mainstream journalists to get the new dynamics of Internet-powered democracy–is quitting his job at the…

Quoting Matt Haughey (A Whole Lotta Nothing: Don’t just read the news, make it): A few months ago, I was thinking about all the questions I wished I could ask someone that helped develop the TiVo user interface, and then I realized there was nothing stopping me from just emailing and asking. After a bit…

Quoting from Is Flickr the Next Media Giant?: Wired News: When bombs went off in Jakarta, Indonesia, in September, CNN.com readers weren’t the first to know. Instead, members of Flickr, an online photo service, were among the very earliest to see pictures of what had happened. “There were photos on Flickr before even any news…

Quoting from The trust network at dinner with an author that I didn’t know (in Scobleizer): How do you learn to trust/like/love someone new in your life? Tonight I was at a dinner of about a dozen people. I was asked not to blog the dinner. But, I only knew three of the people there.…

Robert Scoble and Shel Israel have started a blog called The Red Couch on the MSN Spaces platform and are using it to write a book together with the collaboration of their readers.