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"I can’t think of anything that demonstrates the sovereign nature of the self better than a blog.” - Doc Searls
About the Author
Stowe Boyd is a well-known media subversive,
and an internationally recognized authority on real-time, collaborative
and social technologies. His new blog is Message.
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September 19, 2005
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Mobile Growth Not Slowing Yet
Infomatics has released some data on mobile phone growth for the year. Subscribers are set to jump from 335 million to 380 million this year - however, if we look at past trends, each year's "estimates" have been exceeded quite significantly, so I wouldn't be surprised to find the same going on here. Although many developed countries are nearing saturation, developing countries will push the growth, and we'll start to see more people around the world supporting 2 or more devices. Via Moore's Law
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September 06, 2005
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Our Social World
I am sorry to say that I won't be able to attend the upocoming Our Social World conference in Cambridge, England. Many of my favorite people are going to be there, presenting their fascinating insights, dammit. [tags: our+social+world
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September 04, 2005
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Paul Scrivens on Being The Hype
Paul Scrivens, who I recently met at the Blog Business Summit, has an interesting post on Being the Hype, making the case that hype can be overblown, like the boy who cried wolf, leading to negative effects: "If you continue to hype every product you release, hype will no longer be generated. This is what 37signals was doing wrong in my opinion. It's not that they are releasing a number of products or that many of them, some will argue, share the same qualities. It's that instead of just telling us that a new app will be launching next week or simply just launching it, we get a taste of our 4th product marketing speech which begins to wear on people. Apple gets hype because they don't bother hyping anything themselves. The rumor sites take care of that. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Microsoft hypes every new OS and has no chance of living up to their own hype." Amen. [tags: paul+scrivens]
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July 24, 2005
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AttentionTrust
Seth Godin Goldstein has launched AttentionTrust, a non-profit "dedicated to promoting the basic rights of attention owners." Which I believe is us.
Join Now
If you believe in and are willing to adhere to the following four principles, you are invited to apply to the AttentionTrust:
Property
You own your attention and can store it wherever you wish.
Mobility
You can securely move your attention wherever you want whenever you want to.
Economy
You can pay attention to whomever you wish and receive value in return.
Transparency
You can see exactly how your attention is being used. [tags: Attention Trust, Seth Goldstein]
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July 22, 2005
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Tagging Is The New Black
David Beisel riffs on John's Herran's quip -- “http://del.icio.us/popular is the new Slashdot.” -- by pointing out "tagging is the new black." [tags: Social Architecture]
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July 19, 2005
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12 million Skype enterprise users
Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype, estimates that 30% of its 40 million customers are corporate users. via Financial Times Tag: skype
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July 18, 2005
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Chris Allen on Extrapolative Hostility in the Online Medium
Chris Allen is trying to understand why it is so easy for people to spin into madness online, and suggests that people are involved in ad hominem stereotyping -- extrapolation, as he calls it -- and that this leads them astray: "I doubt if explaining this theory to someone who writes a hostile message is useful -- they will take it as yet another attack, which will likely contribute to another cycle of flamage. [...] Understanding this lets me add another widget to my social software toolbox: when a group process results in a hostile message, try to determine if the author is actually reacting to what you said or if their hostility is based on extrapolating to "obvious" generalities. This may not allow you to directly address the hostility, but it may help you better understand it and thus not contribute to the cycle of flames." Hear, hear.
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July 14, 2005
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Russell Beattie on "PR People Are Morons"
Russell Beattie hit a few nerves with his recent PR People Are Morons. His contention that there are many, many clueless PR flacks out there is well-founded, but the blanket indictment of PR as a whole has folks like Shel Israel and Anil Dash slapping his wrist. My hope is that the PR professionals that do get it will quickly wise up their clueless comrades, or else the PR trade will continue its plunge in respect. Russell is the one willing to overgeneralize to get attention on the real problem: PR folks attempting to short circuit the blogosphere for personal gain. [pointer from Micheal O'Connor Clark] [tags: PR People Are Morons, Russell Beattie, social+media]
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July 13, 2005
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Getting Google Juice: Use Full Names
Buried in the middle of a Gelf article about Google search, Does Google News Have a Sense of Humor?, I found this factoid about Google juice: "Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, told the Online Journalism Review that he has a theory as to why smaller-time sources get ranked higher than obviously bigger sources on some stories, especially those having to do with people's names. "I think what you're seeing is an odd little linguistic artifact," he said, explaining that while mainstream news publications refer to people on second reference by their last names, alternative news sites often use the whole name multiple times on purpose. As far as Google News is concerned, this means that the smaller sources are more relevant." Hmmm. I guess I will have to thank Ethan Zuckerman for that advice the next time I see Ethan Zuckerman. [tags: Google juice]
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June 30, 2005
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Ed Batista: Three Questions with Stowe Boyd
I recently participated in Ed Batista's "Three Questions with..." project, which can be seen here. Even has a bonus question about karate!
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June 28, 2005
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MIT Weblog Survey
MIT is running a Weblog Survey; calling all bloggers to participate.
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Future Tense Has Been Conjugated
We've launched a new blog today, called Future Tense, where a great group will be exploring the future of work: Elizabeth Albrycht, Dave Desforges, Jim McGee, Regina Miller, and Jim Ware. My only contribution is the name! - Stowe
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June 27, 2005
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Boing Boing on Friendster
Over at Boing Boing, the uselessness of Friendster is once again mulled over, as contributor Macki trashes a totally dumb search tool they implemented: "Tracking infection vectors via social networking is definitely not a new idea, but it's apparent now that Friendster is sufficiently mature to start tuning this feature. Maybe they can start keeping track of individual's risk factors and generate a score ranging from the coveted "Raping me cures AIDS" to the dreaded "Anna Nicole Smith's Vagina"." Yikes. [tags: Friendster]
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June 14, 2005
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OpenBC Announces 500,000 users
OpenBC announces they have reached the 500,000 users milestone. Definitely a serious player in today's approach to gated social networking, although I am still withdrawing from these sorts of solutions. [tags: Unlinking From Social Networks"]
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June 10, 2005
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Nancy Whites on Stowe's Voice
Nancy White notes that I have been blogging like a maniac recently (easier when you don't travel every minute), in Stowe on a Roll. She quotes my announcement of an open business plan (although her link is broken), and then asks, "After reading that, I realized from that point on, I was hearing more of what I think of as "Stowe's voice." He has always shared links, trends and thinking, but somehow it seems to have more of his voice in it. Is this my imagination?" I don't think you're imaging things; I am trying to be more open about what we, and I, are doing behind the scenes at Corante. More to follow! [tags: Corante Open Business Plan]
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Marc Canter on Death To All Panel Sessions
Marc Canter agrees that conferences need an overhaul, or are totally broken. "I had an opportunity of helping one of the new conferences push the envelope. I suggested that perhps the notion of a conference - which only existing for a few days a year - was passe. Conferences of the future will be on-line, and 24/7/365. A brand. An IRC channel, a Wiki and a marketplace. It's a new paradigm of conferences." Hey, Marc, let's plan a new conference trying some of these ideas. [tags: Marc Canter, Death To All Panel Sessions]
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June 04, 2005
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Lifecycle of Bloggers
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June 02, 2005
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Technorati A 1: A Movable Type Plugin
I did some sniffing around, and Adam Kalsey has built a MT plugin, Technorati A 1 that does at least some of what I wrote about yesterday in the Distributed Architecture for Social Media piece: "I've whipped up a quick MT plugin that can get the Technorati link Cosmos for your entire blog or a specific entry and insert it into your blog pages." tags: [Technorati A 1]
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May 31, 2005
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Fast Company For Sale
I guess I am not surprised to read that Fast Company is up for sale. I don't know the particulars of the company's finances, or of the parent company that is also trying to dump Inc., but being the edgiest of mainstream media's business pubs is kind of like being the world's shortest giant, nowadays.[tags: Fast Company]
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May 30, 2005
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This email is: [x] blogable
Seen in recent email, a footer that displays blogability of the contents: "This email is: [x] blogable [] ask first [] private".
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May 26, 2005
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Technorati Update: 7 Days And Counting?
Just an update on the lagtime of Technorati updates: its been 7 days since the last update of Get Real's ranking (3,259) although Technorati shows an additional 108 links from 42 sources in the past 7 days. Even the Cosmos is lagging: "last updated 8 hours ago." I love Technorati, but I really need it to be instantaneous.
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May 20, 2005
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Will Wright on Spore
Via Wired News, Will Wright, the mind behind The Sims, talks about his new "game" called Spore: "Can a computer game bring you to theological discussions, or philosophy, but at the same time remain eminently whimsical and playful and approachable? That's an interesting balance to strike. I like the idea of an extremely whimsical toy that has deep philosophical implications." Kind of like David Weinberger. [tags: Wll Wright, Spore]
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DSpeak
Oh boy, things are moving fast in VoIPland. At IGN.com, Craig Harris reports from E3 2005 "Earlier this week, we reported that Nintendo would be demonstrating something called DSpeak at its Electronic Entertainment Expo booth this week. After experiencing it hands-on, we can tell you what it is: Voice-over IP using the Nintendo DS' wireless and microphone capabilities." Just a concept demo, but this should create even more panic in the traditional phone companies. [pointer from Waxy.org] [tags: Nintendo DS, Dspeak]
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Virginia Postrel is Watching The Watchers
Virginia Postrel has a new column at Forbes -- Looking Forward -- where, at least in this issue, she is taking MSM blogbashers on: "Something about blogs makes a lot of respectable journalists hyperventilate." Go get'im! [tags: Virginia Postrel, Watching The Watchers]
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May 19, 2005
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Anne Galloway on Mass Amateurization
Anne Galloway has a few choice words re: Mass Amateurization, and why Flickr and Dodgeball have been scooped up: They convinced us to play with their products and help build them. "Don't get me wrong. Generally I stand behind what some folks call 'mass amateurisation' - or more specifically I support challenges to traditional professional expertise. But when Microsoft or the BBC want me to "play" with their products it's different from when I play with my friends and peers. Not necessarily worse, and wonderful in all sorts of ways, but different nonetheless. Started as basically DIY efforts, Flickr has become Flickr/Yahoo and Dodgeball has become Dodgeball/Google. Blogging the latest conference I attended or building patio furniture from the latest issue of Ready-Made is different than squatter entrepreneurship. Assembled relations shift, will continue to shift, and that's never a neutral occurrence." [tags: Anne Galloway, Mass Amateurization, Flickr, Dodgeball]
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May 17, 2005
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Gary Turner: UFO Sleuth?
Gary Turner reports on catching a UFO (or something) on video. [pointer from Doc]
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May 15, 2005
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Jon Stewart/Daily Show on Watching The Watchers
Apropos of the mainstream media becoming obsessed with the blogosphere, here a recent Daily Show (see here), where John Stewart and Co. skewer the idiotic phenomenon of news journalists reading blogs on television. [pointer from Dave Evans] [tags: Watching The Watchers]
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May 12, 2005
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Skype targets enterprise users with new partnership
Skype just announced a partnership with Fiberlink, a company developing voice-data solutions for enterprise mobility. Without all the legwork, they've successfully managed to get a leg into selling to corporate clients. Way to go Skype. I personally think it's a great move. I use Skype for most of my business contacts, for both voice and chat components. It's ability for multi-user chat and voice conference, not to mention the low-cost voice mail option, make Skype a great business tool. And, yes, this is despite the valid points about Skype's ability to use your resources given by Marc. From Om Malik
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May 10, 2005
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Flackster Is Back!
Michael O' Connor Clark is back and blogging at Flackster after a long hiatus. He is rolling out a multi part series: The Seven Deadly Agency Types.
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Stowe Boyd: Black Belt Seminar
I recently claimed the www.stoweboyd.com domain name, and mapped it to my Typepad account, so my personal blog is now www.stoweboyd.com/awm. The most recent post: Black Belt Seminar. Yes; no kidding.
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May 09, 2005
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A Practical Guide To Social Networks
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Huh?
An agonizingly funny spoof of a trendy marketing boutique:Huh? We do stuff.[pointer from Jeffrey Zeldman]
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Watching The Watchers: New York Times
Mark Cotton at marketwatch reports reports "The New York Times Company (NYT) said Monday it plans to introduce a redesigned Business Day section on Monday 16 May. It also plans to expand its coverage of new media and online web journals known as blogs as well as widen its coverage of consumer technology, the legal profession, Wall Street, venture capital and financial products." [pointer from Susan Mernit]
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May 07, 2005
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Buzzworthy: Your brain on e-mail
I saw that Brian Chin of Buzzworthy is tracking the story about the recent HP study on Continuous Partial Attention I mentioned recently, and points out that the nice folks at HP have prepared a guide to help you a/ determine if you are an "info-maniac", and b/ if you are how to wean yourself off of it. Bah!
[tags: Continuous Partial Attention]
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May 05, 2005
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Xeni Jardin on Pentagon publicists "don't know how to handle bloggers"
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May 04, 2005
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If The Blogosphere Was A Country...
I got a kick out of Jeremy Wright's fanciful roster of bloggers if the Blogosphere was a company, which puts me (me! of all people) as a Supreme Court Justice. But I like being on any list with Doc Searls.
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Dave Balter Apologizes
Over at Strange Attractor, Suw recapitulates a fracas that transpired over the past few days with Dave Balter, the president of BzzAgent. I missed the whole thing because of an email server problem, but suffice it to say that Dave has apologized for calling Suw and Corante liars. I don't think the controversy about BzzAgent and it's social spam form of marketing is done, but perhaps this flap is dying down.
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April 29, 2005
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David Weinberger on [scs] Community
While I was stuffing my self silly at the Les Blogs conference in Paris, David Weinberger was at what must have been a fascinating conference: Microsoft's Social Computing Symposium. Here's his summary of presentations by Amy Bruckman (George Institute of Tech), Robert Kraut (Carnegie Mellon's CommunityLab), Randy Farmer (Yahoo), David MacDonald (U of Washington), Fernanda B. Viegas (MIT Media Lab). He has numerous other entries on the symposium, as well. I have to get invited to this next year, so I better tone down the invective about Windows a notch.
[tags: scs SocialSoftware]
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April 28, 2005
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Jeff Jarvis on Google
Jeff Jarvis has taken a long hard look at Google: "I love Google; we all should. I don't hate Google. But I think it's time to consider fearing Google. Just to be safe."
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Second Life Future Salon
A number of cool folks, including Randy Moss, Jim Purbrick, and Jerry Paffendorf are co-conspirators on today's Second Life Future Salon, which is a futuristic look at virtual worlds and their broader application.
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April 25, 2005
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Darren Barefoot at Les Blog
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April 18, 2005
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Adobe Buys Macromedia
I just heard that Adobe is buying Macromedia for $3.4B. [Pointer from Clickable Culture] Maybe someone at Adobe will wake up to the fact that having Flash on 99%+ of connected desktops should lead to a Flash-based instant messaging network, and perhaps something like the Nerdvana client, instead of the ill-fated Central application?
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April 15, 2005
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Joi Ito: Amicus Brief Asks for Legal Rights for Internet Journalists
Joi Ito mentions "The Stanford Center for Internet and Society filed an amicus brief today [12 April 2005] which I signed together with a number of others. Go CIS!
Amicus Brief Asks for Legal Rights for Internet Journalists
CIS filed an amicus brief today on behalf of The First Amendment Project, Internet journalists and bloggers and others asking the court in the Apple v. Does case to treat online publishers the same rights as their colleagues who publish in more traditional formats. Download file"
Yeah, like the right to jailed for refusing to disclose confidential informants, perhaps?
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April 08, 2005
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Alarm:Clock's Take On Del.icio.us
Interesting to hear a VC analyst's take on Del.icio.us: [from alarm:clock] "Classic guy-in-a-room venture. Schachter has been running this as a side project, with no stated intention of making money. Rather, he reaps the karmic rewards of creating a nice Web tool and clearly draws the adulation of many Web 2.0 geeks. We think he's wise to emerge from his bedroom - a little investment can go a long way in the current market, as can a loyal user base."
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April 06, 2005
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IT Conversations Goes Open Source
Doug Kaye has announced that IT Conversations is going "open source" -- meaning that the contributions of the community toward IT Conversations projects is welcomed. JD Lasica has a posting that includes the announcement, originally sent by email.
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March 26, 2005
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Conduct meetings via telepresence
The Universities of Calgary and Alberta have received $1.7 million to develop new and inexpensive 'telepresence' tools that would enable long-distance couples to talk over a meal, students to learn virtually, or individuals to conduct virtual meetings. The 3–D technology would allow people to “interact with holographic images in virtual encounters.”
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March 25, 2005
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de.lirio.us - the free, open-source look-alike of del.icio.us
de.lirio.us site launches with some controversy over the name. de.lirio.us has positioned itself as is a “combination of the social bookmarking, tagging & blogging phenomenons in one little package.” Although similar in look and function to del.icio.us, de.lirio.us is open-source and will likely stay free.
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Chris Allen on Dunbar, Altruistic Punishment, and Meta-Moderation
Chris Allen has a deeply researched post, Dunbar, Altruistic Punishment, and Meta-Moderation, which deserves a close look: "In summary this research offers me another widget for my social software toolbox: in any group process look for the commons, allow participants to participate in identifing defectors; determine what the costs are for such identification (which may be as simple as requiring some attention or charging for such punishment); and encourage participation in the common good by punishing those who do not participate in seeking out defectors."
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March 24, 2005
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Trawling With Engines Of Meaning
Bruce Sterling on Tags:"Ultimately no human brain, no planet full of human brains, can possibly catalog the dark, expanding ocean of data we spew. In a future of information auto-organized by folksonomy, we may not even have words for the kinds of sorting that will be going on; like mathematical proofs with 30,000 steps, they may be beyond comprehension. But they'll enable searches that are vast and eerily powerful. We won't be surfing with search engines any more. We'll be trawling with engines of meaning." [tags: Social Architecture, Bruce Sterling]
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March 22, 2005
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Gothamist / Six Apart Party Tonight
Six Apart and Gothamist are hosting a party tonight in NYC, and since I am working in town for the next few weeks, I plan to be there. Look me up!
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March 17, 2005
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Doc Searls to The New York Times
Doc lambasts the New York Times: "Here we go again. Can Papers End the Free Ride Online? in today's the New York Times. It's framed so wrong. Earth to Times:
+ You have readers, not "consumers."
+ You have writing, not "content.""
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March 14, 2005
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Liz Lawley at SXSW
Liz Lawley is doing yeoman's (yeoperson's?) work blogging hte SXSW conference, here, here, and here.
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March 10, 2005
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Mark Jen: After Google, Plaxo
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March 09, 2005
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Ed Cone on Chris Lydon
Ed Cone mentions that Chris Lydon is going back to radio: "Chris says it will be similar to his previous show, The Connection, but "more tightly integrated with the Internet, through streaming audio, podcasts, e-mail, and blogs."" And it will be called Open Source, which seems awfully close to Adam Curry's Daily Source Code, don't you think?
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February 24, 2005
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The Day Gonzo Died
Jeff Angus, over at Management by Baseball, gives a send up for Hunter S Thompson: "I think he created a lot of the foundation that evolved into the smashmouth Internet and TV journalism tradition that features adversarial in-your-face criticism. I think Thompson, however, picked targets he truly disliked. He didn't just go out of his way to fabricate his disdain in order to have something to say."
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February 23, 2005
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The Blogs Must Be Crazy
Peggy Noonan in "The Blogs Must Be Crazy" writes: "Blogging changes how business is done in American journalism," and goes on to tell how and why. [pointer from Tim Oren]
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JD Lasica on Hunter S Thompson's Suicide
JD Lasica points out that Hunter S Thompson might be the patron saint of bloggers: "Yeah, he was known for gonzo journalism, but when you strip it down, it was about the idea that anyone with a typewriter, a modicum of reporting talent and the gumption to ask the hard questions could be a reporter. Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Jimmy Breslin and others dressed it up in fancier clothes and called it "the new journalism," but the idea was that journalistic objectivity was pretty much bullshit, that the writer was very much a part of the story he was covering -- a notion that is now a core precept of the blogosphere."
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February 22, 2005
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Jay Rosen on About.com
Jay Rosen summarizes the reasoning behind the About.com purchase (and collates dozens of other great comments on the acquisition): "I'm a blogger, not a company. I couldn't tell you if this page has the proper meta-data-- or any. My search engine optimization method is to get a lot of links by writing something original and useful that people will elect to recommend at their own sites. It works (sometimes.) But only because my links don't expire."
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February 15, 2005
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Jambo Networks: Proximate WiFi Messaging
I like the Jambo WiFi proximity based messaging. Their admixture of affinity groups and online social networks with WiFi messaging is pretty neat. More to follow.
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Bubbler from Five Across
Five Across demoes their Bubbler product, which is positioned as "the fastest blogging engine in the world." [Disclosure: a new advertiser on Get Real.] They only used 2 minutes of their 7 minute alloted time, posting text, audio, and photos to a blog developed in real-time.
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Johnnie Moore On Research as a Replacement for Internal Conversation
Multiply interesting post by Johnnie Moore at BrandShift: "Scratch many research briefs and you'll find a conversation that needs to happen inside the business. An elephant under the table that's not being talked about. And when research is done to prove a point, as a substitute for a "fierce conversation", when there isn't genuine curiosity, I think it's likely to be a waste of time and trouble."
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February 10, 2005
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Bronchitis
Yes, its bronchitis. I coughed so hard I pulled a muscle in my back. On antibiotics. Forgive me if I am slow to respond.
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Dowbrigade on Greg Narain
The sarcasm at Dowbrigade regarding our own Greg Narain's Beercasting is pretty thick -- but there is a germ of truth: "Greg, who is responsible for SocialTwister.com and is making a significant splash with Beercasting.com, seems to come from a marketing background and gives the impression that every breath he takes and word he speaks are part of some vast lifelong marketing plan. ... We get the impression Greg would beercast a Bar Mitzvah if the price was right."
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February 08, 2005
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PubSub Link Corruption?
The Mad Linker drew my attention to thePubSub LinkRanks table, which looks all messed up. I hope its a temporary issue.
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Suw and the Fall and Fall of Journalism
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Brandshift Launches
Happy to announce a new blog launching today, BrandShift, with Jennifer Rice, Andy Lark, Johnnie Moore, and John Winsor. Incredible talent, incredibly important topic: How "Brand" is changing.
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February 04, 2005
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Mena Trott on True Voice
I am glad to see that Mena Trott picked up on the True Voice in Business Blogging session that Halley Suitt and I did last week, where Halley used Mena as a case study example of True Voice.
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Kevin Marks on Tags
In an IM session a few minutes ago, Kevin Marks of Technorati typed "I think I've spent more time reading meta-analyses of tags than it took me to code them up in the first place."
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February 02, 2005
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Andrew Sullivan Taking A Breather
Andrew Sullivan is taking a breather: "After much hemming and hawing, I've decided to put the blog as you've known it on hiatus for a few months. The Dish will still exist, the site will be updated weekly with new feature articles, and I'll still post when I feel like it. But it won't have the regularity or content of the past four and a half years. Why? The simple answer is that I want to take a breather, to write a long-overdue book, to read some more, travel to Europe and the Middle East, and work on some longer projects. Much as I would like to do everything, I've been unable to give the blog my full attention and make any progress on a book (and I'm two years behind). It's not so much the time as the mindset." It will happen to us all. I took a year off after my first blog was lost due to my hosting company being padlocked.
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Steve Rubel on Weinberger's Unfiltered Message
Steve Rubel chimes in on David Weinberger's advice to PR types in a recent Bruce Taylor ITWorld interview: resist the product placement, artificial buzz approach to influencing the blogosphere.
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January 28, 2005
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Return on Blogging: Conversation Rating Points
At the New Communications Forum in Napa, Jan Marie Zwiren of Edelman mentions a new approach to evaluate the return on blogging (ROB): conversation rating points (CRP), roughly analogous to TRP and other more traditional metrics.
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January 25, 2005
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Google VoIP
Times Online quotes Ovum analyst, Julian Hewitt, on Google's rumoved move to integrate VoIP telephony with search.
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January 24, 2005
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Robert Scoble at Blog Business Summit
Scoble's keynote at Blog Business Summit: a wide-ranging, gonzo exploration of the reasons why blogging has changed the world, for an ubertechnoid like him, for you, and for every business in the world, whether a tiny winery, your neighborhood plumber, or a multinational like Microsoft.
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January 18, 2005
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IM Addresses for today's Get Real show
If you'd like to pose questions for today's Get Real show, do so through one of these IM addresses:
stoweboyd@mac.com on AIM
stowe@corante.com on MSN
stoweboyd on Yahoo
stoweboyd@2entwine.net on Jabber
PS The telcon is full, so no use trying to sign in at this late date. There will be one every month, though.
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January 13, 2005
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Ed Simnett to Join Panel of Get Real Show
Ed Simnett, Lead Product Manager Real-Time Collaboration, Microsoft, will be joining the panel for the first Get Real show, 18 Jan at 11 am ET. Ed is an old friend, and I am looking forward to his incisive wit as a foil to my ranting.
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Podcast and Portable Media Expo
Another True Voice show lined up: Alex Williams and I will be hosting a session at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo, Nov 11-12 2005, in Ontario CA, on Podcasting
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January 11, 2005
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Hugh Macleod on Good Ideas
"Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted." Hugh MacLeod
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January 07, 2005
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Scoble on the True Voice Panel at Blog Business Summit
Robert Scoble has graciously agreed to join the True Voice panel on The Business of Blogging at the Blog Business Summit: register here for the teleconference.
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January 06, 2005
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Six Apart to Buy LiveJournal
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December 22, 2004
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1st Kyu in Shito Ryu
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December 17, 2004
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Art Mobs at EventLab
The guys at EventLab on Art Mobs: a project by Dr. David Gilbert and students from his Organizational Communication Course at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City: "Why should museums and galleries have exclusive control over making audio tours of their exhibits? Make your own audio tour (with music if you like). Why not remix the MoMA for your friends?!"
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December 16, 2004
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Tim Porter on Journalism
Tim Porter on the Future of Journalism: "In order to survive, newspapers must change their form - form, not standard - of journalism (not to mention their means of advertising delivery), but, as radical as those new forms may seem in most newsrooms, I no longer think that is enough. Many news executives know what to do, but they still don't do it. They are handcuffed by cultures that not only inhibit change, but frequently punish those who champion it. What's needed is a fundamental organizational makeover. The current newsroom structure - segregated departments, hierarchical decision-making processes, platform specific (instead of agnostic) content, and strict producer-consumer division - does not permit change on a large enough scale to break newspapers free from the traditions that bind them."
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December 15, 2004
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Michael Schrage on The Relationship Revolution
[Via Ross and Jerry] Michael Schrage from The Relationship Revolution: "Consider a small thought-experiment: Whenever you see the word "information" -- as in the strategic importance of managing information, or the importance of timely information in solving problems, or the need to make substantial investments in information technology in order to compete in the cutthroat world of global competition -- substitute the word "relationship.""
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December 10, 2004
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Yogi Berra On Social Capital
Yogi Berra on social capital: "If you don't go to their funeral, they won't come to yours"
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Craig Newmark On Telling The Truth
Craig Newmark quoting some unnamed wit on telling the truth: "If you are going to tell the truth, make'em laugh, or else they will kill you."
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"Blogspeak" From Votes, Bits & Bytes
Kathleen Matthews, the moderator of a panel session (at Votes, Bits & Bytes) with Joe Trippi and Micheal Turk, used the term "blogspeak" twice in the first few minutes of her intro, asserting that it was synonymous with speaking in sound bites. I don't agree, but I bet that is the perception among professional TV journalists.
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December 09, 2004
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More on aSmallWorld
A reader writes in response to aSmallWorld Update: "Hello, I am a member of ASW but sadly I cannot invite you as invitationing has been disabled due to the 50,000 user mark. No new members are allowed to join except for people who were invited before the cut off date." Grrr.
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Om Malik on The End of the Personal Blogger
Om Malik suggests we are witnessing the coopting of the blogosphere by Google, Yahoo, and the blog networks in hisEnd of the Personal Blogger: a bit strong, but when blogs become increasingly important, things will change, Om, and the old guard bloggers will lose relevance.
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December 07, 2004
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'Tis The Season To Blog
'Tis The Season To Blog: TypePad is offering a free blog subscription as a gift to subscribers who renew.
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December 06, 2004
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The Euan Semple theory of Knowledge Management
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Jeremy Wright's Final eBay Price
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December 03, 2004
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Andrew Orlowski on Apple OS X
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