How to achieve ‘real’ democracy for web
It’s been an interesting week in regards to the users asserting their authority.
Conference goers at SXSW made a clear statement that they weren’t willing to sit back and just listen politely.
Digg users are trying to thwart an acquisition.
On Newsgang Live 3.10.08 (not released yet), Gillmor claims it’s 1968 again, and we better watch out if […]
Ad Hoc Relationship Campaigns
Any time we want to accomplish something, from here on called the campaign, we rally together our digital forces to achieve (or fail to achieve) that goal.
For each given campaign, we gather assets, if only cerebrally at first. Bookmarks, search results, trusted members of our social graph, all the tools that fit the given campaign. […]
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 […]
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 […]