By Matt | March 2, 2008

Twitter vs. Pownce: The Great Debate

Or is it Twitter vs. Facebook?
Or is it AIM vs. Yahoo! Messenger vs. GTalk?
Or Facebook vs. LinkedIn vs. MySpace vs. . . .
Okay. You get the picture.
Is this a ‘winner take all’ game, or can we expect that people will use many different services for some time to come?
It is most likely that everyone reading […]

By Matt | February 29, 2008

The (open) future of news

First, we must start by defining news. At least I’ll explain what I consider it to be.
News is not something solely created by a high priesthood of journalists in non-smoky back rooms of some media organization. They do create news there. Lots of it.
Nor is it merely news organizations coupled with the fast […]

By Matt | February 28, 2008

New Paradigm Emerging

Steve Gillmor’s latest show Newsgang Live has two conversations going on. One is the presidential race, in particular the rise of Barack Obama, and the other revolves around what Bruce Lerner observes is the growing pervasiveness of “propellorhead technology” as it stretches into the mainstream.
This is not just “Web 2.0″ gaining wider acceptance, as one […]