Category: The Power of Many

It seems that logging is a no-brainer. Systems already can do journaling and to the computer (by which I mean a central processing unit) everything happens in a totally linear way as it is. The real trick of what we today call blogging is to determine what information to make public to anyone, what information…

My interview with Dan Gillmor in the Well’s public Inkwell conference has come to a close and Jon Lebkowsky’s interview with me in that same venue has now begun, concurrent with Lisa Goldman’s interview with Farai Chideya of Your Call Radio. We’ll be popping up in each other’s interviews as our topics are nicely interrelated.…

Aldon Hynes, who reviewed my book at Amazon and on his Orient Lodge weblog also started a discussion about the book in the book club group of the Omidyar Network. Soon afterward, Marnie Webb from CompuMentor and Tech Soup and N-Ten (whom I met in person when we appeared on a panel together at the…

Zogby doesn’t think so (Edgewise: Simon World blogs Zogby’s Hong Kong talk): The impact of the Internet has been huge. In 1996 about 4% of voters got most of their political information from the net. In 2000 it was 31%. For 2004 it will be in excess of 50%. The second key impact has been…

Anil Dash (An unkind community) wonders if the tenor of (at least) the political blogosphere has reached a point of no return in terms of loss of civility and mob behavior (as when a popular political blogger “sics” his readers on someone espousing an unpopular viewpoint): I wonder if there’s any other steps we can…

Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry have relaunched Personal Democracy Forum. The site will run two or more feature articles a week, and shorter blog entries on blog time. There’s also a newswire pointing to interesting stories about the politics and technology, a list of the most influential political weblogs, and a dynamic, Technorati-driven list of…