Category: The Power of Many

Today is the official publication date for the book. w00t! It will take a few weeks, though, for it to appear on most shelves. My mother has already asked me to drop by her neighborhood Barnes & Noble to make sure they’ll put it in the window.

Joyce Park has been fired from Friendster and assumes it’s because she blogged about her work. Ross Mayfield has a good, short take on who Park is, how it happened and, more importantly, where the implications are when a YASNS fires a blogger: There are so many threads in this to be explored. Employee blogging…

Topix.net comments on how general search engines still don’t do a good job of keeping up to date with incremental changes (most likely by scanning webfeeds) in The Daily Internet: The kind of searches I regularly do on Feedster and Technorati just aren’t available on Google. No amount of fiddling with the advanced search options,…

I was IMing with Dave Sifry last night (we’re both in New York for the RNC – he’s credentialed with CNN and I’m going commando). He showed me the new Election Watch 2004 page at Technorati. It tracks rising and falling mentions of sites, offers blogger commentary of various ilks side by side, and now…

According to AP via CNN, Olympians are prohibited from publishing their own stories and pictures. In fact, CNN’s headline said “largely barred from blogging”, but that implies that preventive measures are being taken; in fact, the IOC says that it hasn’t done anything to enforce the ban. Athletes may be the center of attention at…

Here are the main heads from Stuart Henshall’s Manifesto for Social Networking Required at his Unbound Spiral blog: It’s my Network I own it. Social networks should empower people. I am my own hub. Ease data exchange My Blog is Better at Networking Create Markets for Connectivity Adopt user centric models Encourage Face to Face…