Gotcha Moments

Throughout the Personal Democracy Forum a lot of smart people were making impassioned pleas for candidates to use technology to have an open dialogue with the American people. Be real. Be authentic. Tear down the walls that have been erected between the candidates and voters.

It all sounds great....

Google Hot Trends

Earlier today Google launched a new feature called Hot Trends, which shows you the 100 hottest search terms on Google in near real time. You can also go back and browse the hot terms for previous days.

Note that this is not a list of the most popular searches on Google....

NPR on Ron Paul

The Bivings Group was recently interviewed by NPR’s All Things Considered for a piece about the online success of Republican/Libertarian Presidential candidate Ron Paul. Micah Sifry from the Personal Democracy Forum was also interviewed.

You can listen to the piece here.

In the interview, Robert Smith asked me if I thought all of the Paul-related activity would have a real impact on the election....

How to Run an Online Community

Corporations, media organizations and even political campaigns are launching online communities left and right seeminly. Many of them are doing so without having any real knowledge of what makes a good online community go or how to manage the community if it flourishes.

Matthew Haughey from the massively successful community site Metafilter has a good post up providing some tips....

TBG at Personal Democracy Forum

A number of us will be headed up to NYC later today to attend the Personal Democracy Forum conference tomorrow. I will be participating in the conference’s Idea Market, where I will be discussing “Best Practices in Blogger Relations.” We’ll also be co-sponsoring a post-conference happy hour from 8:00-10:00 tomorrow night with the David All Group,...