Facebook is the New AOL
Jason Kottke expresses the concern a growing number of people are having about Facebook:
“As it happens, we already have a platform on which anyone can communicate and collaborate with anyone else, individuals and companies can develop applications which can interoperate with one another through open and freely available tools,...
Continue ReadingWhen I first heard that the BBC assigned a reporter, Ben Hammersley, to report about Turkey's elections via several social networks, I wondered how the Beeb would present the reporting.
Would it just leave all the information at the individual sites and hope that people would navigate to the other reporting? ...
Continue ReadingWith all the hype surrounding tomorrow's release of Apple's iPhone, I had to throw my two cents in. There are reports that both praise and criticize Apple's newest addition to its family of trendy tech products, and both sides have some good points. The pro-iPhone camp is excited about having a sleek,...
Continue ReadingNew York University journalism professor Jay Rosen harangues Mother Jones, the left-leaning investigatory magazine, for its feature package titled "Politics 2.0" in which it basically asks, "Are we entering a new era of digital democracy-or just being conned by a bunch of smooth-talking geeks?"
Rosen, an open source advocate, accuses that "The Mother Jones editors had a great story about politics and the web within their grasp,...
Continue ReadingOur blog has run off WordPress for awhile now and for the most part we’ve been pretty free of comment and trackback spam. The Akismet plugin combined with some manual intervention on occasion has usually been all that was needed to keep our comments area relatively clean. Akismet has blocked 300,000 spam comments since we started using it....
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