I’m really interested in how people that do not communicate the way I do are embracing and using the web. Using 2.0 tools, they are able to connect with their own community, and with people like me. Want to see what I mean? Check out In My Language on Youtube. When you have a tool [...]
You’d think with the election over, we would shut up about Obama’s internet strategy – but not so much. Because it turns out that an oft-quoted statistic about his campaign isn’t quite right. See, I went around telling everyone that small donors formed the bulk of his campaign contributions. I bragged about [...]
Are you a social media trysumer? A digital dilletante, you are constantly trying out all sorts of social media sites, online networks and forums. You flit from one to the next, finally settling on a few that work for you – for now. You are, rather literally, a social butterfly. You just might be the [...]
Everyone was all a-flutter earlier this week when Google introduced a new feature that allows you to vote search results up or down based on their accuracy and track it on a search wiki. The implication is that from now on the web will be a giant popularity contest where, if you haven’t been voted [...]
In the 19th century, do-it-yourself x-ray kits became popular as people x-rayed their own boots, hands, and plants (not to mention weirder stuff) to find out what the invisible world really looked like. Wired’s Alexis Madrigal has a great post about this featuring links to San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art’s Brought To Light: Photography [...]
Yesterday morning, 1.2 million people in 6 major US cities read a morning edition of the New York Times that was a little…different. The Times was dated July 4, 2009, and announced that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had ended; global warming was fixed; and the economy was on the upswing. Good news! Or [...]
What can we learn from the unstoppable Obama PR machine that just rolled over the country? Never mind the politics: the campaign was the smartest publicity siege that’s been seen in a long time. It’s particularly worth paying attention to how Obama and his crew of merry techsters paid attention to the net. [...]
Looking to get your non-profit discovered on the internet? You could do worse than surfing Google Trends, which tells you the most searched terms on the web for any particular day. Of course, while it sort of increases the likelihood that you’ll be found on a search, it also leaves you trying to work terms [...]
You’re sitting in your cubicle, trying to get a grant proposal finished. Through the thin plastic wall, Ted’s yammering away on the phone. The phone message light is flashing red, like an emergency beacon signalling your imminent overload. And then Shannon sticks her head around the corner, and asks if you have a sec…just one [...]
Google has apparently applied for a series of patents that will enable it to a put a value on how connected you are, within your social network. Akin to the “pagerank” system used by the search giant for valuing the popularity of websites, “friendrank” would help identify individuals who are particularly influential within circles [...]
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