Category: The Power of Many

J.D. Lasica researches how sites end up on Google News (and why certain political opinions dominate there). He contrasts Yahoo! News’ human approach with Google News’ algorithm-only one; Yahoo says the person-powered one is actually faster.

Cecil pointed out to me that we haven’t really kept up with the latest weblogs- meet- the-power-of-many storyline in which legions of skeptical bloggers took down the mighty Dan Rather and CBS over the AWOLgate forged documents. He’s probably right and I shouldn’t let my pinko biases keep me from acknowledging a situation where the…

Leuschke’s links pointed me to TiddlyWiki – a reusable non-linear personal web notebook, a very cool implementation of the wiki concept with an entirely fresh way of presenting the reader’s path. Visit the site and start clicking some links to see what I mean.

Brian Dear has noticed a trend among new social network services (brianstorms weblog: Going Local): There’s a lot of activity in the social-network-based local listings recommendations arena right now. Think “friendster meets epinions meets local.yahoo.com”. … InsiderPages and Judy’s Book are social networks (notice the emphasis on “friends helping friends”) geared at trusted recommendations of…

Bart Decrem, the producer of a political discussion site called Of, By and For, a site launched by Mitch Kapor (founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation), Joe Costello (who worked on the Dean campaign) and Decrem (head of marketing for the Mozilla project) writes: This Friday, we are hosting our first live audio event and…

We need to be on this list: Technorati: BookTalk. I see that Technorati is displaying Amazon links. I wonder if their system counts links to a book’s home page and its Amazon page as two different books? Then there’s the problem that my preferred domain name for this book, thepowerofmany.com, currently resolves to x-pollen/many or…