Category: The Power of Many

Larry Lessig, Aaron Swartz, and others have put together p2p-Politics as a way of enabling people to point each other to political ads online. From the site’s FAQ: Does this have anything to do with p2p filesharing? It is peer-to-peer, or people-to-people, but the files are not themselves shared. Only links to files are shared.…

Last week Jon Stewart put down Tucker Carlson on the latter’s CNN show. Today, Jeff Jarvis lays out how the publicity afterward exemplifies the living Web: Welcome to the future of TV! In old TV, a moment like this came and if you missed it, you missed it. Tough luck. In new TV, you don’t…

Friday morning I got up at the crack of dawn to make a phone appearance on WJR AM in Detroit (news/talk at 760 on the AM dial). That was fun. Then this morning at 6:05 am I spoke with Jim Sharpe on KTAR in Phoenix, the number one news station in the Phoenix metropolitan area,…

danah boyd, who’s made a practice of studying how younger people use social media (as contrasted with how we old fogeys tend to do so), noted recently (apophenia: a culture of feeds: syndication and youth culture) that the Web 2.0 “excitement” about RSS and syndicated feeds and suchlike may be missing the fact that it…

Matthew Yglesias takes a look at the organizing effort from the left blogosphere to oppose the Sinclair TV network’s plans to air an anti-Kerry film on the eve of the election. These activities aren’t limited to one ideological camp. The right blogosphere drummed up the swift vets story and complained about it not getting covered…

My publicist sent out a press release today relating The Power of Many to the online post-debate spin efforts discussed in an entry I posted after the first debate. In it, she quoted mistakenly affiliating Joe Scarborough with FOX when in fact his show is aired by MSNBC. I’m sorry for this error I made…