Category: The Power of Many

  • Voting as a social act

    I enjoyed reading Louis (didn’t they call him Luke when he taught literature in New Jersey?) Menand in the New Yorker on how voters decide who to vote for: […] Voters go into the booth carrying the imprint of the hopes and fears, the prejudices and assumptions of their family, their friends, and their neighbors.…

  • About twice as many people have no political views as have a coherent political belief system.

    […] Man may not be a political animal, but he is certainly a social animal. Voters do respond to the cues of commentators and campaigners, but only when they can match those cues up with the buzz of their own social group. Individual voters are not rational calculators of self-interest …

  • Taming wiki templates (paging mathowie)

    In the about page at haughey.com, Matt Haughey explains how he wrangled phpwiki into shape to present an elegant, functional, standard-compliant site. I have even lower standards. I just want to get the wiki pages currently at x.erio.us to look like the rest of the site, and the templates that create phpwiki pages appear to…

  • Book tour about to begin in NY

    I’m heading to New York this Saturday night so I can cover the Republican National Convention for this (and a few other) weblogs and then, after the Labor Day weekend, help support the official publication launch of the book. The book will be available in stores starting September 1, but we are timing the publicity…

  • More support for tracking the living web

    Om Malik reports that Technorati has taken a(nother?) round of VC funding: Om Malik on Broadband: Technorati gets fed VC dollars Over on the wiki tip, Ross Mayfield’s been blogging about SocialText’s successfully completed round of funding as well. Remember, as soon as everyone catches on to blogs, you can hit them with “do you…

  • I've got XFN all wrong

    Tantek emailed me to point me to some responses to Clay Shirky’s mockery of XFN. I’ve been meaning to post a follow-up, since my headline was so snarky, and I’ve been busy working on this website and preparing for my trip to New York for the RNC and it’s been getting away from me, but…