Category: The Power of Many

In How BC04 made better use of its email list, Daily Kos points to Bush vs. Kerry: Email Newsletters Rated, usability maven Jakob Nielsen’s “interesting analysis” in his Alertbox web column: Although I don’t actually claim that Bush won because of usability, I do think that wise use of email newsletters contributed to his victory.…

Dave Winer’s unconference BloggerCon is having its third second annual instance this weekend at Stanford. I am mostly following it in my aggregrator: Lobbycon is always one of the best parts of any conference; hanging in the courtyard and talking to folks – both people I’ve read and not met, and friends and colleagues I…

The editors of the Personal Democracy Forum have asked a number of experienced activists and commentators to take a first look back at the events of the last 18 months and identify the biggest impact technology has had on politics. The first responses are now featured over there (Election 2004: Lessons for the Future, part…

Steve Rubel’s Micropersuasion weblog is bursting with great insights into blogs, public relations, and the way conversations are changing marketing online. I find that in the first year or so of a new blog from an insightful weblogger like Steve you get a lot of great thinking about the medium itself. Old burnouts like myself…

Jed Miller writes about building town blogs at Personal Democracy Forum (another site I contribute to): Mark Glaser of OJR keeps a steady eye on the encounter between journalism and the Internet. In today’s article he uses the lovely coinage “town blog” to describe a wave of new “hyperlocal” citizen media sites. There’s really good…

Looks like Chuck Olsen’s movie is ready for prime time: Just noticed that Chuck Olsen’s film Blogumentary is premiering in Minneapolis on November 5th. Chuck started working on this – and posting – in 2003 saying: We live in an age where everyone is a mediamaker. Blogs empower us to tell our story, spout and…