Category: The Power of Many

In Weblogsky: Divide and Subtract, jonl, who sent me my first invitation into Multiply, contemplates leaving it entirely: Finally, today, I decided that Multiply really does suck, so I killed some of my data there and tried to find a way out. Finding none, I posted this image as my headshot (and you’re welcome to…

In Many-to-Many: XFN Relationships Clay Shirky convinces me that XFN is wack. But can we just pick a model and let people experiment with it? I don’t care if it’s FOAF or XFN or PeopleAggritude or whatever. What’s the best way to build out and model the part of my network I want to be…

Uh, I should have noted before today that I am speaking at N-TEN : 2004 San Francisco Regional Conference tomorrow (Friday, August 20), on the topic “What is Blogging and Why Should I Care?” or something to that effect. I;ve got to do a better job of alerting the public about my upcoming speaking events,…

While discussing Multiply on the Well, I was prompted to spew out my current thinking on digital identity and portable networks and what I wrote earned a “Nice rant, dude” from bumbaugh so I’ve included it here for the archives:

Now that review copies have been sent out to the first wave of media we are starting to get calls for in-studio appearances in New York around the time of the book’s launch (September 1). So the book tour is going to start there in New York in the end of August. I’ll stay in…

Apparently there’s yet another social network manager now. I received an invitation to join it from 3 people so far. Two of them are male, one isn’t and has never evidenced an inclination to be identified as such that I’m aware. The invitation read: Molly has added you as his contact on Multiply so he…