President Obama made his way into office with a tech savvy campaign team and promises to use new technologies to change the way government gets its job done. With the campaign over and the administration under way, shifting rhetoric into action has happened in notable ways but also raised major concerns....
Continue ReadingConversations about blog posts are increasingly taking place on Twitter in addition to the comments section of blogs. Due to this trend, over the last six months we’ve seen lots of blogs integrate tweetbacks into their comment sections. Building on the trackback concept, a tweetback searches Twitter for links to specific blog pots and displays relevant tweets in the comments section of your blog. ...
Continue ReadingWith Google I/O in full swing yesterday, one thing is apparent: we are on the cusp of a new HTML standard. It's slated to be a really versatile and shiny standard. It's a standard that promises to work for, and not against developers. It's been a long time coming, but for the first time in the standard's history,...
Continue ReadingAlong with Heather Lauer of Tribe Effect, I will be participating in a Personal Democracy Forum conference call this Thursday (May 28) from 1-2 pm EST on the topic of “How the Pickens Plan Recruited 1.5 Million Volunteers in Nine Months.” The call is open to all members of the PDF Network,...
Continue ReadingI was in Las Vegas last week to participate in an ACG Intergrowth panel about how the rise of the social web is changing the way we network. David Teten, the author of the book the Virtual Handshake and CEO of Teten Advisors, was one of my fellow panelists and also a featured speaker at the conference. ...
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