Category: The Power of Many

Popular social bookmark site del.icio.us, widely credited with helping to popularize the current tagging craze, has accepted venture capital funding that will enable creator Joshua Schachter to devote his energy to developing the service full-time, as reported by Schachter himself in a post to the [delicious-discuss] mailing list. Congratulations, Joshua!

Quoting from The LitKicks Board Archive (I interviewed Levi and discussed Literary Kicks in the book): In January 2001, I was playing around with some Java software at work when I heard the poet Gregory Corso had died. I decided to try this new software out by putting up a Corso tribute board, and this…

Andy Baio IM’d me this morning to alert me to the new version of Upcoming.org (Upcoming.org: News: Huge Changes!). Improvements includes the following: Personal and self-promotional events now permitted / enabled. Tagging! A RESTful developer’s API. Upgraded, more legible design. E-mail/SMS Reminders.

By jove, I think David Weinberger has spun out yet another brilliant idea in P2P backup I think I’m missing something obvious, but why can’t I find a p2p backup system that lets me and a designated buddy swap storage space? I’ll give my pal, say, 5GB of storage on my computer if she’ll give…

Quoting from Blog and Wiki Best Practices Infoworld has posted a comprehensive package on the use of blogs/wikis in internal communications as well as for corporate communications/PR. Platforms reviewed include JotSpot, Socialtext and Moveable Type. The package is rich with good information. Here’s a summary of the article’s best practices. Note how they suggest to…

Quoting from Steve Johnson on books and blogs: Steve Johnson has a brilliant post on why he doesn’t blog his books as he writes them: The problem for an author is that books are not written the way they are read. They usually take years to write, from original proposal to final proofs; they are…

As I’m not yet an influential enough influencer, I will point you to initial impression of Yahoo 360 (danah boyd).

I was checking in with a Yahoo group set up for alumni of a startup I worked for in the dotcom days and noticed someone pointing to his progile at Txters.com. Looks like YASN, this one geared around enabling free text messaging.

Haven’t had a chance to explore this new Microsoft offering, but Crossfader appears to be a site designed to enable collaboration across the net among musicians and music producers: Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky – That Subliminal Kid In his debut Crossfader session, Paul Miller lays down the inside track about his new album “Drums…

I hope neither Caterina nor Stewart punch me in the mouth for reporting this: Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr: Nicely written FAQ there. Example: Are you going to become Yahoo Photos? No. Yahoo Photos will get a lot of Flickr features, and there are alot of other areas around Yahoo that will also be Flickrized…

Ben Brown, one of the names I finally met at SXSW this year wrote up a good example of spontaneous social networking on his Intarweb Rockstar blog: Virtual Community Boards, Missed Connections Not Missed, and Ambient Noise Bonus: Jeff Veen blogged his own comment at the “leveraging solipsism” panel about the best way to continue…

Nancy White did a fantastic job taking notes at various panels throughout SXSW interactive this year. In her write up of my second panel, Are Political Parties Obsolete?, she definitely captured the gist of most of what we were saying up on the stage. I plan to do a few retrospective posts here once I…

Because I’m about to check out of my hotel for my return flight from SXSW, I’m just going to swipe Steve Rubel’s Book Editing Wiki Style post from his essential, how does he do it, I remember when I had that level of energy and ethusiasm for blogging, Micro Persuasion weblog: BusinessWeek reports that Stanford…

When explaining social network services to people I often point out that Yahoo, with its profiles, groups, photo banks, and so on, is already the most popular YASN in the world. Obviously Yahoo recognizes this too and by adding a little blogging secret sauce to meld together their existing service offerings, they are making that…

There’s an official wiki for this panel that Kaliya is technographing on the screen, but I can’t read the URL (but will post it when I get it – ah, here it is: Sx Sw Delib – NcddWiki), but there’s another one also being built up at the same time: Deliberative Democracy and Interactive Technology…

10:00 Deliberative Democracy and Interactive Technology because for me today is all about politics and technology though 10:00 Web Design 2010: What Will the Web Look Like When It Turns 20? also looks like a great panel and I hope someone blogs it 11:30 Are Political Parties Obsolete? because it’s going to rock and, uh,…

Quoting from Nancy White’s excellent notes SXSW: Blogging While Black Panel below the jump

10:00 How to Make Haste Slowly: Moving to the Cutting-Edge With Limited Resources because the topic fascinates me but this conflicts with a biweekly editorial conference call I’m on for PDF, so I unfortunately will probably miss it 11:30 Blogging While Black because George rocks and this is probably the most fascinating topic of the…

The day was kind of a blur. I’ve been taking notes when I’ve had an adequate power supply for my laptop, and I’ll either post them raw or try to clean them up a bit when I get a breather. (There’s a few-hour stretch today where I think I can get a little work done.)…

Quoting from Eyebeam reBlog – SXSW Report: Ben Walker on ‘Net Censorship in China Weblog: Eyebeam reBlog Source: SXSW Report: Ben Walker on ‘Net Censorship in China Link Yesterday at SXSW: a presentation on blogging and censorship, with Hossain Derakhshan, prominent Iranian-Canadian blogger, and Benjamin Walker, radio host and Berkman Center for Internet and Society…

Steve Rubel seems to have evoked a response from AOL PR about the draconian new AIM terms of service, in the comments to his AOL’s TOS Change Sparks PR Crisis entry at Micro Persuasion / MicroPerfusion: UPDATE: AOL PR is listening and they chime in via comments to this post. The blogosphere is buzzing this…