Category: The Power of Many

I just taped a ten-minute interview with Jim Asendio of WLIU, a Long Island public radio station, that will air between 9 and 10 am this coming Monday (September 13). We covered a lot of ground in that time. Jim asked some excellent questions and we ranged from talking about the fast-pacing changes in the…

Chris Bowers at MyDD notes that blogs are competitive with cable news websites: Over the past thirty-one days, the ten most trafficked political blogs, Dailykos, Instapundit, Atrios, Josh Marshall, Little Green Footballs, Wonkette, Political Animal, Teagan Goddard, Captain’s Quarters and Real Clear Politics (listed in no particular order), totaled just over 28,000,000 unique visits. This…

Patrick Di Justo writes about TxTMOB in the New York Times (Protests Powered by Cellphone: As thousands of protesters marched through Manhattan during the Republican National Convention last week, some were equipped with a wireless tactical communications device connected to a distributed information service that provided detailed and nearly instantaneous updates about route changes, street…

During the RNC, b!X sent me a link to this entry on his Portland Communique blog: Tim Hibbitts Requests ‘Retraction’ And/Or ‘Clarification’: So consider their request fulfilled. You have his quote, and you have all of our characterizations of it. Feel free to weigh-in on the controversy in the comments here. While, as we stated…

Judith Meskill notes an article at Time.com called What Are Friends For (Relationship-Capital Management – The Social Software Weblog – socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com): Deals vs. dates? Is that the difference between LinkedIn.com and, say, Orkut.com? Not really. But it is the difference between a LinkedIn, Visible Path, Spoke, or Ryze and the top dating sites. The Social…

Hard to know exactly how to characterize this but cognitive dissident John Perry Barlow has been leading revelers through a series of public dance mobs in the vicinity of the Republican convention (Dancarchy Reigns!) He seems happy with the results so far: Republicans were hard to encounter at first. They are being quarantined behind the…