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December 6, 2006
Catching up with NAN
Hey, I’m only a month late on congratulating Jay Rosen on the launch of NewAssignment.Net (“an experiment in open-source reporting”). My excuse is I was finishing a novel and working full time, but what about the blogs, Christian? And who...(See full entry.)
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September 21, 2006
Reuters grant underwrites NewAssignment.Net budget
Here’s Jay Rosen’s announcement of a $100,000 grant for his NADN project: PressThink: Editing Horizontally: Thanks to Reuters, NewAssignment.Net Can Hire Someone My first thought was, “This sounds like a job for George,” but George already has a job…. I...(See full entry.)
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September 11, 2006
Jay Rosen discusses NewAssignment.net
Back in late July, NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen announced an initiative called NewAssignment.Net. (Full disclosure: I am one of a medium-sized set of advisors to this project.) The goal of NADN, in my words, is to leverage blog networks...(See full entry.)
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August 30, 2006
Brief audio interview with me from last year
The day after last year’s Personal Democracy Forum I attended a Civicspace workshop event and Gregory Heller conducted a brief interview with me talking about PDF, Civicspace, and how to run conferences with an “open API” so that other events...(See full entry.)
February 22, 2006
Video for the people
The good folks at Participatory Culture have unveiled a key component of their “Democracy Internet TV” platform, the desktop Democracy Player software (for Windows only, so far): This Windows version, while still in beta, means that we now have a...(See full entry.)
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January 24, 2006
Dan Gillmor jumps ship
It looks like Dan Gillmor is rebooting. Bayosphere didn't work out exactly as he had hoped, but he's got a new project already launched in cooperation with UC Berkeley's J-School and a star-studded cast of advisors. I wonder if the...(See full entry.)
December 2, 2005
The music genie's out of the bottle
When Napster hit it big a lot of people pointed to the success of the Grateful Dead despite having almost no hit records and ascribed it to their liberal tape-trading policies. Part-time Dead lyricist and EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow...(See full entry.)
August 18, 2005
Echo Chamber Project launches vlog
A few weeks ago, Kent Bye, director of the Echo Chamber project, tipped me off to a new vlog (video [web] log) he's producing. This first episode includes an animation that tries to illustrate the folksonomy concept as well as...(See full entry.)
June 13, 2005
LA Times to try wikitorials
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,...(See full entry.)
April 29, 2005
Chris Nolan on 'The Stand Alone Journalist' at PressThink
Chris Nolan guested a week or so at PressThink with The Stand Alone Journalist is Here.... Be sure to read if you're interested in the impact of blogging and syndication on journalism....(See full entry.)
April 5, 2005
If the Times won't come to the mountain...
An essay I've struggled with writing for Jay Rosen about how the New York Times and other newspapers could become full citizens of the web has eluded me as I continue to mull over the possibilities, but in the meantime,...(See full entry.)
April 2, 2005
Darren Barefoot spits out the podcasting Kool-Aid
Scoble pointed me to Why I'm Not Smoking the Podcasting Dope by Darren Barefoot. Some good points in there about why podcasting is not like blogging and won't have the same legs....(See full entry.)
March 29, 2005
Scaling pains at a community site
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...(See full entry.)
March 25, 2005
Johnson wouldn't blog a book while writing it, Weinberger might, I did, others will
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...(See full entry.)
March 17, 2005
Opening up the book-revision process on a wiki
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...(See full entry.)
March 8, 2005
Who's entitled to the legal protections accorded journalists?
In Define "Journalist", Scot Hacker says: At the J-School, we've been exploring the question of whether bloggers are journalists for a couple of years, in both classroom experiments and in conferences that have drawn fascinated/scared journalists and the blogging elite...(See full entry.)
March 4, 2005
Is there an agent role in the disintermediated future of publishing?
In his Fresh Books Blog (Do you need an agent in the tech book market?), literary agent Matt Wagner points to a discussion about agents, how they earn their 15% and how useful they are in today's business climate, taking...(See full entry.)
March 1, 2005
Draft of first chapter on the Red Couch
Quoting Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger: First chapter posted on our corporate blogging book We've posted our first chapter over on the Red Couch. Steve Lacey already praised it. Thanks! Bob Wyman, founder of my favorite blog search engine, Pubsub.com, wonders...(See full entry.)
February 8, 2005
Jay Rosen book announced
Jay's book is entitled Gatekeepers without Gates and if it's anything like his wonderful weblog, it will become required reading for anyone who cares about the future of the press and the impact of the living web on the media...(See full entry.)
January 6, 2005
NPR to podcast 'On the Media'
Quoting from Big podcasting news I went to WNYC today to tape an interview with Bob Garfield on vlogging for On The Media and they told me the big news: This week's On The Media will be the first NPR...(See full entry.)
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January 5, 2005
Shirky's response to Danah Boyd on the recent Wikipedia debate
Andy Baio says (in Shirky's response to Danah Boyd on the recent Wikipedia debate): Clay on Danah on Clay on Sanger; a great debate Definitely an interesting discussion but I wonder if we are making a category error here. Talking...(See full entry.)
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December 30, 2004
Lessig to revise book by wiki
This spring, Lawrence Lessig will try to get his 1999 book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace updated by wiki for paper publication later in the year. He's inviting volunteers to serve as "Chapter Captains"; Lessig will donate his advance...(See full entry.)
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December 22, 2004
'The Long Tail' (book and the blog)
Quoting from The Long Tail the book and the blog: Chris Anderson is writing a book about The Long Tail which started as one of my favorite articles that he wrote for Wired. He has also started a blog about...(See full entry.)
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December 16, 2004
OhmyNews interview with Gillmor
When we both get a moment free I'm going to interview Dan Gillmor about his new venture for the Power of Many weblog. In the meantime, this interview in Quoting from OhmyNews International gives some insight into what he's got...(See full entry.)
December 13, 2004
Citzen's media on the local level
Quoting from Washington Post Examines Citzen's Media Big day for citizen journalism. Peg notes that Leslie Walker writes in today's Washington Post that several notable ventures have launched or raised money this year to create local news sites online in...(See full entry.)
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December 10, 2004
Gillmor leaving the Merc to found citizen journalism project
Quoting from "We the Media" Author Has New Venture at Personal Democracy Forum (by Micah L. Sifry): The biggest news I have to report so far from Harvard's "Votes, Bits and Bytes" conference is that Dan Gillmor--one of the first...(See full entry.)
D.I.Y. journalism
Quoting Matt Haughey (A Whole Lotta Nothing: Don't just read the news, make it): A few months ago, I was thinking about all the questions I wished I could ask someone that helped develop the TiVo user interface, and then...(See full entry.)
December 9, 2004
The Flickr News Network
Quoting from Is Flickr the Next Media Giant?: Wired News: When bombs went off in Jakarta, Indonesia, in September, CNN.com readers weren't the first to know. Instead, members of Flickr, an online photo service, were among the very earliest to...(See full entry.)
December 5, 2004
Writing a book by blogging it
Robert Scoble and Shel Israel have started a blog called The Red Couch on the MSN Spaces platform and are using it to write a book together with the collaboration of their readers....(See full entry.)
December 1, 2004
The Culture of Connectedness
Quoting from Emerging Media Audiences: The Culture of Connectedness: This blog is about the intersection of tech-enabled social networking and emerging media audiences. Technology is pulling together personal networks of people for more persistent connectedness and giving them tools for...(See full entry.)
November 26, 2004
Blogging the Ukraine revolution
If you want direct reportage from the Ukraine on their election crisis, then don't miss this Ukraine Revolution weblog. This post includes a link to a "smoking gun" MP3 sound file documenting plans for vote fraud: Voice records containing voices...(See full entry.)
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November 18, 2004
Today Lott... tomorrow DeLay!
A squad of TPM readers are outing congressfolks in the Republican caucus on how they voted on the DeLay Rule: Quoting from Ch-ch-ch-changes Rare is the PDF reader who doesn't also read Josh Marshall's TalkingPointsMemo but what's going on there...(See full entry.)
November 12, 2004
Kevin Sites: photoblogging Falluja
in Kevin Sites: photoblogging Falluja, Boing Boing : "Xeni Jardin: Link"...(See full entry.)
November 8, 2004
Did Bush beat Kerry in the spammer war?
In How BC04 made better use of its email list, Daily Kos points to Bush vs. Kerry: Email Newsletters Rated, usability maven Jakob Nielsen's "interesting analysis" in his Alertbox web column: Although I don't actually claim that Bush won because...(See full entry.)
November 4, 2004
Municipal blogging
Jed Miller writes about building town blogs at Personal Democracy Forum (another site I contribute to): Mark Glaser of OJR keeps a steady eye on the encounter between journalism and the Internet. In today's article he uses the lovely coinage...(See full entry.)
November 3, 2004
Blogumentary premieres Nov. 5 in Minneapolis
Looks like Chuck Olsen's movie is ready for prime time: Just noticed that Chuck Olsen's film Blogumentary is premiering in Minneapolis on November 5th. Chuck started working on this - and posting - in 2003 saying: We live in an...(See full entry.)
Publishing for the people
On the Creative Commons blog, Neeru Paharia writes about the beta version of The Publisher, an application that enables anyone to publish content with a creative commons license and host it permanently at archive.org: Leveraging the Internet Archive's generous offer...(See full entry.)
November 1, 2004
Hardblogger adds Dave Johnson for election day
According to Tom Burka at the hilarious Opinions You Should Have: Dave Johnson of Seeing The Forest, a liberal who knows more about the history of the Republican Party than many Republicans, is helping Joe Trippi and MSNBC keep their...(See full entry.)
October 25, 2004
Too many realities?
I've always felt that presidential elections are, on one level, a competition between narratives. In one sense, people vote for a story, not necessarily for a protagonist or even an ending. We've seen that supporters of the two parties each...(See full entry.)
October 20, 2004
Personal Democracy Forum relaunches
Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry have relaunched Personal Democracy Forum. The site will run two or more feature articles a week, and shorter blog entries on blog time. There's also a newswire pointing to interesting stories about the politics and...(See full entry.)
October 18, 2004
Jon Stewart shoots, living web scores
Last week Jon Stewart put down Tucker Carlson on the latter's CNN show. Today, Jeff Jarvis lays out how the publicity afterward exemplifies the living Web: Welcome to the future of TV! In old TV, a moment like this came...(See full entry.)
October 7, 2004
How MP3.com used to identify local-hero bands
By the time you've heard of a popular band they often represent a kind of supergroup built out of the hottest bands from some microscene you've generally never heard of. Via Andy Baio's Waxy Links I stumbled upon an interesting...(See full entry.)
October 6, 2004
Astroturfing the flak-catchers
Women's-right website Failure is Impossible offers a primer for countering astroturf letters- to- the- editor campaigns (Fight Back Against Killer Astroturf). The page explains how repetition of boilerplate language in letters to the editor of newspapers can be detected through...(See full entry.)
October 1, 2004
Full-court press
Not content with the track record of the Democratic party or its surrogates in winning the post-debate meta-debate media framesetting in the 2000 election, left/liberal online activists circulated chain mail messages online yesterday, itemizing the contact email addresses and websites...(See full entry.)
September 27, 2004
Repainting the line between news and opinion
J.D. Lasica researches how sites end up on Google News (and why certain political opinions dominate there). He contrasts Yahoo! News' human approach with Google News' algorithm-only one; Yahoo says the person-powered one is actually faster....(See full entry.)
September 24, 2004
Was anyone at CBS reading blogs?
Cecil pointed out to me that we haven't really kept up with the latest weblogs- meet- the-power-of-many storyline in which legions of skeptical bloggers took down the mighty Dan Rather and CBS over the AWOLgate forged documents. He's probably right...(See full entry.)
September 22, 2004
How does Technorati's BookTalk work?
We need to be on this list: Technorati: BookTalk. I see that Technorati is displaying Amazon links. I wonder if their system counts links to a book's home page and its Amazon page as two different books? Then there's the...(See full entry.)
September 20, 2004
Does this website make me look technical?
A friend and mentor of mine in local East Bay politics took a look at the website for this book and told me it gave him the impression that the book was quite technical. While the book deals with technology,...(See full entry.)
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September 17, 2004
Tracking back
I meant to note a week or so ago that Cam Barrett, one of the prominent first-wave bloggers who played an important role in the Clark campaign and has now worked for the Kerry campaign as well was one of...(See full entry.)
September 13, 2004
Help wanted
The time has come to launch this site for real, after all the pre-launches and decloakings and other ramping-ups. I've finally got all the sections nearly looking the same, but I could use some help from a PHP maven since...(See full entry.)
September 10, 2004
Craig in the Times
I had the opportunity to meet my publicist Susannah Greenberg face to face yesterday (she treated me to a drink at the Rink Bar at Rockefeller Center, where we managed to catch a few breezes in this stifling New York...(See full entry.)
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September 9, 2004
DailyKos beats Fox on the Web
Chris Bowers at MyDD notes that blogs are competitive with cable news websites: Over the past thirty-one days, the ten most trafficked political blogs, Dailykos, Instapundit, Atrios, Josh Marshall, Little Green Footballs, Wonkette, Political Animal, Teagan Goddard, Captain's Quarters and...(See full entry.)
September 7, 2004
Portland blogger-journalist arouses politician's ire
During the RNC, b!X sent me a link to this entry on his Portland Communique blog: Tim Hibbitts Requests 'Retraction' And/Or 'Clarification': So consider their request fulfilled. You have his quote, and you have all of our characterizations of it....(See full entry.)
September 1, 2004
Happy pub date
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...(See full entry.)
August 26, 2004
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...(See full entry.)
August 25, 2004
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...(See full entry.)
August 19, 2004
Still working out my events calendar
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...(See full entry.)
August 18, 2004
Book Tour: October in Austin
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...(See full entry.)
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August 4, 2004
Flipping the switch
OK, this post should bring up the new design (although a few of the links are still not active yet)....(See full entry.)
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Getting ready to launch for real
We've had stealth mode for this site, then the soft decloak, then the informal prelaunch, and now we're just about ready to launch the site. Review copies are going out this week so it's time to spruce up the site...(See full entry.)
July 31, 2004
'We the Media' book party
Brian Dear has some photos and a brief write up from Dan Gillmor's Book Release Party....(See full entry.)
July 22, 2004
We the Media blog
Dan Gillmor's upcoming book from O'Reilly, We the Media now has a weblog. Looks like I'll be interviewing Dan for the Well's public Inkwell conference in October....(See full entry.)
June 10, 2004
Blog census
I didn't know about the NITLE Blog Census until I stumbled across it in a Feedster search that turned up this eWeek article: Blogging is the hottest thing on the Internet since, well, the Web browser. This is not news,...(See full entry.)
June 3, 2004
Who owns your own words?
In Many-to-Many: Who owns a weblog's content? over at Many-to-Many, Seb Paquet inquires into ownership issues in the age of collaborative authoring....(See full entry.)
June 1, 2004
Site ready for prelaunch
With all the chapters rewritten and the glossary nearly done, and the promotional publicity effort ramping up, I spent some time over the weekend trying to crisp up the design of this weblog a bit. I may have overdone it....(See full entry.)
May 30, 2004
The power of wiki
We've got one now. Not sure anyone else can edit anything yet. I'd love to build the book's community around the wiki and not Orkut or something.......(See full entry.)
May 28, 2004
The Internet brings immediacy to writing
Speaking of manifestoes (manifestoi?), here's the crux of a brief manifesto about how participating in Usenet had affected my writing style which I posted to alt.usenet.manifestoes back in 1995: After launching myself that first time off the edge of the...(See full entry.)
May 24, 2004
New collaborative enterprises
How to Save the World author (and knowledge-management expert) David Pollard reveals that a "major US book publisher" has approached him about writing a book with the "rather unwieldy working title of The New Entrepreneurship: Stepping Stones to Joyful Success:...(See full entry.)
Inkstained wretches (without the ink)
The blog world has been basking lately in the glow of verteran journalist Bill Moyers' endorsement (in an interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air). Here's what he said (lifted from Techjournalism): I think the Internet, the blogging, is the...(See full entry.)
The media are revolting
Should have blogged this when it first appeared. David Neiwert, the freelance journalist and author behind the extraordinary Orcinus weblog published a manifesto for a media revolt earlier this month. He first explains why he thinks such a call to...(See full entry.)
JD on Nick Denton on blogs
In JD's New Media Musings: The cool kid of micropublishing, JD Lasica includes a long quotation from PR Week's interview with Gawker Media's Nick Denton. Here's the choice bit that JD especially highlights: The only time, in traditional media, when...(See full entry.)
May 7, 2004
Memeshare / mindshare?
Look who's the first result on Google if you search for "the power of many" or even just power many....(See full entry.)
May 5, 2004
Lasica using open-source editing
As many have noted, JD Lasica has posted chapters of his forthcoming book to a wiki. I didn't get around to blogging this for a couple of days, however, until Mary Hodder wrote the blog entry I wish I had...(See full entry.)
May 2, 2004
Personal anecdotes appropriate for this kind of book?
Stevin Berlin Johnson suggests that criticizing his book for its personal approach isn't, let's say, as fruitful as some other avenues of criticism he considers more legitimate....(See full entry.)
April 30, 2004
Cal panel about digital journalism
Second of today's Cal panels: Disrupting the News Industry Media Concentration and Participatory Journalism. Panelists: Neil Chase, managing editor of CBS MarketWatch Vin Crosbie of Digital Deliverance LLC media consulting firm Dan Gillmor, columnist for the San Jose Mercury News...(See full entry.)
Cal panel about the Internet
I attended two panel discussions this morning at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. This is the first-ever meeting of the fellows of the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism; today and tomorrow they will continue as a conference...(See full entry.)
April 20, 2004
Both conventions, duh!
I've been working so many angles trying to get onto the floor of the Democratic Convention when I'm forgetting that my book comesd out September 1 and we should do a big thing at the Republican Convention in New tork...(See full entry.)
April 19, 2004
Rheingold on new media strengths and weaknesses
First sentence of this Howard Rheingold article (from October 2003) says it all: "It has taken 10 years of talk about “new media” for a critical mass to understand that every computer desktop, and now every pocket, is a worldwide printing press, broadcasting station, place of assembly, and organizing tool ...(See full entry.)
April 14, 2004
This cover passed the dad test
Wow. I'm started to get really excited about this book. I'd better finish it! So many people still to talk to, no pun intended. This cover impressed my father, who spent most of his career in the New York...(See full entry.)
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April 5, 2004
My sig virus
Basic Internet marketing teaches us that your email sig is the place where you should be mentioning and linking to whatever it is in your life or portfolio that you most primarily ought to be promoting at the moment. Modern...(See full entry.)
March 24, 2004
A table in the demo room
I think we should set up a table in the demo room at the Waterside conference next month for this book. Can we get one of them outsized cardboard glossy cutouts with a mockup of the cover, and some preorder...(See full entry.)
March 22, 2004
Got VoodooPad?
I'm finally down with the wiki way. I get it. It's light years beyond. It's most of what I've been waiting for. And VoodooPad is amazing (for OS X users only, sorry), a desktop wiki app. When I finally got...(See full entry.)
Best practices
Though I have a chapter overdue from first-round development (Chapter 4) and I'm supposed to be calling Bill O'Reilly's press secretary at FOX, I find that this past week I've been spouting themes left and right. Mostly in conversation, answering...(See full entry.)
March 19, 2004
Horton hears a what
Password protection is off, we're grabbing the domain name, and I've started dropping hints on other blogs. Just set up to ping a bunch of sites on update. In addition to the Movable Type recently updated page and the usual...(See full entry.)
March 16, 2004
Stupid subtitle idea
How's that for preemptive self-recrimination? The Might of the Living Web...(See full entry.)
March 12, 2004
Small Media
Linking to Gillmor's book made me realize that we really don't have "journalism" as a topic anywhere. Not that it's necessary—as always, where's the "effective, public, real-world action" component?—and we're not a book on blogging, but both journalism and blogging...(See full entry.)
March 11, 2004
Blogging a book in progress
Over at Napsterization, Mary Hodder notes that a number of writers who are seeking input from readers on their blogs for works in progress (this, by the way, is an approach that we are thus far too timid to try)....(See full entry.)
Gillmor book on journalism and blogging
A year ago, Dan Gillmor—reporter and commentator at the San Jose Mercury News—posted a book proposal and outline (to be published by O'Reilly; includes an abstract of each chapter) for Making the News: What Happens to Journalism and Society When...(See full entry.)
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March 1, 2004
When friends don't bother to pick up the phone
ElizabethSpiers.com: Rumors of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Dear people who know me personally, have my cell phone number and my email address (some of whom have even referred to themselves as my friends) yet apparently still can't be...(See full entry.)
February 20, 2004
Steven Berlin Johnson's new book
Johnson's Mind Wide Open is in Amazon's top 1000....(See full entry.)
February 17, 2004
Schedule progress update
I will get this chapter in today, though I'm onto plan C (A was submit it early, B was submit it by 5 pm, C is submit it before midnight). It's a short-ish chapter, too, as you know, so it's...(See full entry.)
February 13, 2004
The Power of Many Conference?
Jeff Jarvis describes a conference that might look like The Power of Many: I think it's time for somebody to to split off and spawn another conference devoted to the impact of Internet technology on our lives: e, the conference....(See full entry.)
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February 10, 2004
The soft decloak
I just commented on one of Pete's earlier posts The Power of Many: Book competition?, and that reminded me that I wanted to mention the status of public discussion of the book. The associate publisher told me that it's OK...(See full entry.)
February 3, 2004
It's a wonderful life
I just noticed Brian Dear's comment on one of Pete or Cecil's posts (I only get the email notification if I wrote the post) and it reminded me that one interesting thing about pulling together my own network for this...(See full entry.)
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Microsoft conference will include many PoM contributors
The Scobleizer has a blog post on a March 29-30 conference on social computing and e-democracy that will include Joi Ito, Steven Berlin Johnson, David Weinberger, Scott Heiferman, Zack Exley, and a ton more....(See full entry.)
January 8, 2004
Eye on the competition
Mitch Ratcliffe's blog has a New Year's Day post about finding a middle method between the anarchy of plebiscites and the totalitarianism of party hacks. Again, his work is all about politics and not the broader uses that The Power...(See full entry.)
December 28, 2003
Some new people leads
My brother gave me the name of a person at Partnership for Parks in NY who worked on green-grassroots efforts there and has some stories to tell about what worked and what didn't. My friend at Yahoo tells me that...(See full entry.)