Category: The Power of Many

Yesterday I engaged in a long interview / discussion with Tom Moroney, one of the hosts of Simply Put, a politics-oriented show on Bloomberg Radio. We got into some fairly interesting areas, such as questions about whether the Internet is a social or antisocial medium, and how you can trust the credibility or authority of…

After Jerome Armstrong posted a nice blurb about the book at MyDD and Daily Kos, a long discussion thread has ensued, mainly at dKos. Stirling Newberry, of BOPnews (and formerly the Draft Clark movement) objects to our use of the word many in the book’s title, seeing it as code for old-school mass-media broadcasting (Daily…

I’ve been meaning to blog about Paper Airplane since April when I first read about it at the Nanopublishing weblog, which got it from hatch.org: Flying the Two Way Web. Technically, it’s a Mozilla plug-in, but implementation details aside, what’s intriguing about it is the way it builds on the P2P model to faciliate ad-hoc…

Today we begin an interview in the Well’s public Inkwell.vue conference. In it, I am talking to Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News columnist and weblogger and author We the Media. We have crossed paths a few times in the past year while working on our respective books and I expect a lot of complementary…

In the process of interviewing people for the book I would often end up extracting the most salient bits you can find to illustrate points in the words of my sources. Inevitably, there would be other fine nuggets of observation that would end up on the cutting-room floor. Because of the relatively unlimited space online…

By the time you’ve heard of a popular band they often represent a kind of supergroup built out of the hottest bands from some microscene you’ve generally never heard of. Via Andy Baio’s Waxy Links I stumbled upon