Category: The Power of Many

Quoting from Waxy.org Links: News Corp buys MySpace for $580 million: holy cow Lots of kids and bands on that site.

The always-insightful How to Save the World blog by Dave Pollard (repeatedly misnamed in my book as “How to Change the World” for I don’t know what reason – brain damage, most likely) recently published an entry abstracting seven principles of social networking. It’s one of Dave’s shorter posts, too, so don’t be afraid to…

I’ll be speaking at the Sierra Summit on Saturday afternoon from 11:30 to 12:30 PM, on a panel in the Working Smart sequence called “Technology and Organizing: A Civics Laboratory.” The panel features Joan Blades from MoveOn and Zack Rosen from Civicspace as well as myself, so we should have a lively conversation and be…

Lazy Independence Day reblogging, quoting from Blog While You Book NYT: For years, book authors have used the Internet to publicize their work and to keep in touch with readers. Several, like John Battelle, are now experimenting with maintaining blogs while still in the act of writing their books.

Tantek (among others?) has launched a site to promote XHTML-based microformats as a microcontent solution building on existing standards. (Boy, poking my head into Yahoo 360 sure gets me up to speed on industry buzz quickly. Then again, that’s more a function of the social network I brought with me and a bit of currentness…

My Web 2.0 looks like some kind of taglicious social search engine.

As the LA Times seemed to have learned, perhaps editorials aren’t the best context for publicly editable wiki-ing. Wikis seem to work best when used to build a repository of information by people who share a common goal or ethos. I wrote about this last week at Personal Democracy Forum in an article my editors…

It seems that the wiki got slashdotted, which lead to pr0n being posted (goatse, I wonder?), and the site being removed in response: Full Circle Online Interaction Blog: LA Times WikiTorial Update – vandalized. (via Nancy White, via Weblogsky)

In the POM book I talk about a technology practice that I refer to as ARM, meaning “activist relationship management,” modeled on the idea of CRM (customer relationship management). ARM is big business these days (see Personal Democracy Forum’s coverage of the flap over ARM vendor Convio’s policies regarding who they will work with as…

This sounds llike a cool idea (Bright Lightbulb Overhead: LATimes.com Goes Wiki): I won’t believe this until I see it launched and operating unmolested by higher-ups for a good month or so, but barely a month after relaunching a cleaner, freer web site, LATimes.com is planning to launch a wiki to invite public comment and…

Via Waxy.org links comes news of yet another feed reader, FeedLounge that offers tagging along with some NetNewsWire-type features, such as saving feed entries forever and flagging entries. It supports all browsers and imports OPML, naturally. Currently in an invite-only alpha. The web-based feedreader market is getting crowded. When will they start doing more dynamic…

From this post at Am I Patriotic it sounds like plans to develop an open source meeting scheduler to replace Meetup continue afoot.

Sharper eyes than mine have caught Bret Schundler’s campaign website compositing images taken from the Dean campaign (Thank God I’m Not a Republican!): Separated at Birth: Bret Schundler and Howard Dean: One photo was taken at a 2004 Dean for President rally sponsored by the American University College Democrats in Washington, D.C. The other photo…

Steve Gillmor, a champion of the attention.xml concept, wonder whether there is an inalienable right to not just our own data but also the data describing our “gestures” and the record of where we’ve spent our attention. These are not easy questions to muddle through as the urge to monetize Web 2.0 heats up all…

Hmm, seems like I could have added a pro-technology perspective to the proceedings (Geodog: A night at the Oh-So Berkeley CyberSalon): As long time readers know, I love the People’s Republic of Berkeley, foibles and all, and have celebrated its wonderful quirks in my writing and photography for the last 3 years, and even been…

I’ve become a little more understanding about the lame robotic invitations that are suggested by default by most social network services when you invite a new member. I’ve been told that providing the user with a canned invitation instead of requiring that the user write their own increases the utility of the invitation service. At…

Quoting from Darknet: The Installments (at Joho the blog): JD Lasica is beginning to post long installments from his entertaining new book, Darknet: Hollywood’s War against the Digital Generation. First up: The story of some teen film-makers. He’ll also be posting new material. [Technorati tag: drm]

People for the American Way are preparing to create a telephonic flash mob if the Senate votes on the filibuster rule. With the Nuclear Option’s timing in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s hands, there won’t be enough warning to send out an email alert the moment he drops the bomb on the Senate. But we…

I’m at PDF2005 at CUNY in New York city today. I moderated a panel called “Tools and Ideas for Empowering the Edges” in the morning, so I’m off-duty now, able to participate as an audience member and on the really snarky backchannel chat. Right now Micah Sifry is interviewing Andy Stern of the SEIU. More…

Quoting from Everything is miscellaneous: I haven’t yet figured out exactly how I want to handle blogging the writing of the book. I don’t think I want to put a blog at EverythingIsMiscellaneous.com (there’s nothing there yet because I’ve had some domain issues) because researching and writing this book isn’t an isolated act for me.…

Clay Shirky congratulates his students who developed Dodgeball and have now sold it to Google Gmail, Orkut, and now Dodgeball all touch this issue. Dodgeball in particular is built on a mix of three different kinds of maps: maps of location (118 rivington St), maps of place (a bar called The Magician), and maps of…