Category: The Power of Many

The essay collection, Extreme Democracy, edited by Mitch Ratliffe and Jon Lebkowsky, has been coming out in PDF form published via the book’s blog. (I imagine there’s a wiki in the works as well.) Adina Levin’s chapter on Campaign Tools should be required reading for any activist. (Now I’m off to Personal Democracy Forum to…

Rob Goodspeed correlates creativity and online culture on his blog (On "Cool Cities" and Blogs): My theory: cities with the richest local online culture (measured in number of blogs, and use of a select group of other geographically-bound websites) will reflect those cities with the highest numbers of creative class people. He also notes that…

Jon Stahl looks at the success of the online campaign to punish the Sinclair TV network for planning to make its affiliates air an anti-Kerry film under the rubric of news (A new network takes on an old one… and wins!). The network aired a watered-down, balanced show that included clips of a pro-Kerry film…

Just a reminder that a public interview is underway in the Well’s Inkwell conference (The Power of Many: Many in the inkwell). So far, the discussion has been pretty wide ranging and everyone is welcome to participate.

Adam Bosworth writes: The platform of this decade isn’t going to be around controlling hardware resources and rich UI. Nor do I think you’re going to be able to charge for the platform per se. Instead, it is going to be around access to community, collaboration, and content. And it is going to be mass…

I’ve always felt that presidential elections are, on one level, a competition between narratives. In one sense, people vote for a story, not necessarily for a protagonist or even an ending. We’ve seen that supporters of the two parties each are looking at almost entirely different realities. Last Sunday the Suskind article in the Times…