Category: The Power of Many

  • Current Amazon.com rankings

    #2 in Computers & Internet > Digital Business & Culture > Culture (right behind Joe Trippi’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) #18 in Computers & Internet > Networking > Internet, Groupware, & Telecommunications > Internet Publishing #176 in Nonfiction > Politics > General (I don’t know why Amazon categorized this under Business & Investing…

  • Spam-style multilevel viral marketing

    I just got sent an invitation to FreeFlixTix by a friend and as I poke around the site it’s clear to me that the whole thing is a giant spam address collector by its very nature. I wish she hadn’t used my “friends and family” address. :(

  • Does this website make me look technical?

    A friend and mentor of mine in local East Bay politics took a look at the website for this book and told me it gave him the impression that the book was quite technical. While the book deals with technology, it focuses squarely on people and how they interact and work together in groups to…

  • hochan.NET reading list

    I’m seeing some traffic coming in from an blog entry at hochan.NET that also lists Gillmor’s We the Media, The New Media Reader, A Pattern Language, The Great Good Place, Trippi’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, and The Healing Power of Doing Good. I’d be much obliged if a ChineseKorean-reader could tell me what…

  • Peer-to-peer sex education

    From Ftrain I found this link to a sex wiki that calls itself “the Internet’s first wiki on sex.” This might make a good test-case for whole authority-of-wiki references debate. Will it spread disinformation or will it incrementally begin to give better information than other sources online or off? In other wiki news, Wikipedia has…

  • Tracking back

    I meant to note a week or so ago that Cam Barrett, one of the prominent first-wave bloggers who played an important role in the Clark campaign and has now worked for the Kerry campaign as well was one of the speakers at the IMHO panel I attended with Liza Sabater while I was in…