Category: The Power of Many

Here’s the blog ad Miles Kurland just designed for us (based, of course, on the beautiful cover design):

Scott Rosenberg has also been blogging Web 2.0 and his view of this moment in the evolution of the web- as- a- business platform is instructive: What we’re seeing is that a lot of the ideas and technologies that have incubated over the last couple of years, and have been showcased at places like the…

Women’s-right website Failure is Impossible offers a primer for countering astroturf letters- to- the- editor campaigns (Fight Back Against Killer Astroturf). The page explains how repetition of boilerplate language in letters to the editor of newspapers can be detected through web searches for key phrases. It targets Republican astroturfing but admonishes astroturf-sources on the left…

Jeff Jarvis is “eventblogging” the Web 2.0 conference. I’m just glad they didn’t call it Bubble 2.0.

Somewhat reminiscent of the Hollywood movie of a few years ago called Pay It Forward, One Million Acts describes itself as … an event that is driven by the Urban Leadership Foundation (ULF), with the goal of funding job training in low-skilled, low-education, low-income urban areas. The vision for graduates of the ULF’s Job Training…

Daily Kos (a Dem-friendly political community) has been going through some growing pains over the last few weeks, triggered in part by the departure of Theoria, a popular and well-established poster. dKos founder Markos Moulitsas has put up an interesting post over the weekend addressing the subject. In the process, he talks about the lifecycle…