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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hello cloud!
Welcome to Gangbuster. The aim here is to create an open source multi-platform client that speaks to numerous cloud-based services all from one easy to use interface.
Tired of bouncing between your feed-reader, Twitter, email and your IM client. Gangbuster may be for you. Stay tuned.