Post-Medium Publishing. [Paul Graham]
What if People Don’t Take the Bait to Go Paperless? [New York Times]
Ours, Theirs and the Bloggers’ Zones: Compatible, Yet Different. [Nieman]
Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom? [Technology Review-MIT]
Who Controls Data About Public Transportation? [EFF]
The People’s Republic of Google. [I,Cringely]
A Day In The Life Of An Information Worker. [Forrester Research]
Will the web mean [...]
Non-linearity of technology adoption. [cdixon.org] Great piece about complement effects and technology adoption by Chris Dixon. I’ve learned more about business, investing, and entrepreneurship from VC bloggers than perhaps I could have from any MBA program. Okay that’s a stretch, but I heave learned a great deal from investors like Chris Dixon, Fred Wilson, and [...]
Great news about RSSCloud from Dave Winer’s camp today. ReadWriteWeb: “All blogs on the WordPress.com platform and any WordPress.org blogs that opt-in will now make instant updates available to any RSS readers subscribed to a new feature called RSSCloud. There is currently only one RSS aggregator that supports RSSCloud, Dave Winer’s brand-new reader River2. That [...]
Dad’s Rants Become a Twitter Hit. [Wall Street Journal] Let’s start with some fun. This one is absolutely hilarious! Daily quotes from Dad Says on Twitter. “Don’t touch the bacon, it’s not done yet. You let me handle the bacon, and i’ll let you handle…what ever it is you do. I guess nothing.” – (NSFW) [...]
Privacy in Online Behavioral Tracking and Targeting – It’s Time to Protect Consumers. [EFF] The Electronic Frontier Foundation can do no wrong in my book. EFF and a coalition of other consumer and privacy groups called on Congress today to protect Americans’ privacy from invasive online behavioral tracking and targeting.
The Internet has not transformed civic [...]
Global Search Market Draws More than 100 Billion Searches per Month. [Comscore]
In Defense of the Punditocracy. [Anil Dash]
It’s not AT&T. It’s not Apple. It’s just Twitter. [Stardust Global Ventures]
Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. [Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle]
Wikipedia Looks Hard at Its Culture. [New York Times]
Lines are blurring in strange new world of [...]
The blogosphere is up in arms on this one. If you’re not familiar with Cybersecurity Bill S. 773 it would permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a “cybersecurity emergency”. Reporter Declan McCullagh (CNET) obtained an excerpt of the 55-page revised draft stated:
“The new version would allow the president to “declare [...]
Daniel Jacobson and Rob Bole presented NPR’s API to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) explaining what API’s are, why they are useful, and the particular reasons why NPR built the ones that they have. What’s amazing about the presentation is the growth numbers, with nearly 30M requests since launch and API activity almost doubling [...]
No More Beta Codes: Lazyfeed Is Open for Everyone. [Louis Gray]
Hyperdistribution. [Buzzmachine]
New Study Finds Grassroots Enterprise Social Media Often Works Best. [Craig Newmark]
Interview With William Patry: Understanding How The Copyright Debate Got Twisted. [TechDirt]
GooseGrade Uses Crowdsourcing To Edit Website Copy. [Tech Crunch]
The Government and the Web. [NYT]
Arterial, crowdsourced traffic info comes to Google Maps. [Ars [...]
Truly social data. [FluidDB]
Marching through quicksand. [Lessons Learned]
Time to retire the term “blogger”? [Scott Rosenberg, Wordyard]
Is Being In the Mobile Biz License to Ignore the Internet? [John Battelle]
Why Free Thought Is Sexy But We Hate It. [How to Split an Atom]
How Whole Foods boycott groups are using social media to organize. [Bloggasm]
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