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- YouTube: Must see TV? 'User Generated Politics' presidential campaign 2008
- On January 23, I announced: Social media conversations have entered the big leagues, the high-stakes presidential ones.In Social Media conversations: Talking or selling?, the first story in my continuing coverage of what I have dubbed “User Generated Politics,” I analyzed how Hillary Clinton used a slick video-enabled Website campaign headquarters...
- Tags: Culture, Government, Hillary Clinton, Legal, Local, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, Television, TV, User Generated Politics, User-Generated Content, Video, Wikipedia, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Wikipedia: Should students trust it?
- Jimmy Wales, co-founder Wikipedia, admonished Microsoft for its efforts in seeking to correct what it deems to be inaccuracies in a Wikipedia entry, as I discuss and analyze in “Can Wikipedia handle the truth?”Conventional media “wisdom” is in accord with Wikipedia’s Wales. Google News headlines today include: "Microsoft tried...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Citizen Journalism, Culture, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Internet Data, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, Wikipedia, Content, Social Media
- Blog posts 2007-01-27
- Can Wikipedia handle the truth?
- The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is Wikipedias own notion of “verifiability,” not truth, I pointed out last September in “Is Wikipedia ‘knowledge’ merely third party hearsay?” Wikipedia has an aversion to truth, as I discussed in “Why Digg fraud, Google bombing, Wikipedia vandalism will not be stopped.”Wikipedia co-founder Larry...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Citizen Journalism, Culture, Microsoft, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, Wikipedia, Social Media
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Google search challenge from Wikipedia founder in 2007?
- Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, is set to enter the search engine fray in collaboration with Amazon, perhaps as early as Q1 2007, according to Times Online reports:"The project has been dubbed Wikiasari , a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and asari, which is Japanese for “rummaging search”…...
- Tags: Wiki, Google Inc., Google Search, Wikipedia, Wales
- Blog posts 2006-12-23
- Web 2.0 'community': Are 'comments' representative?
- A new month, a new TechCrunch advisory of disgruntled users of Web 2.0 free services. Michael Arrington began November with “Top Digg Users Feeling Snubbed (see "Digg vs. Diggers?”), and he begins December with “Yahoo Gets Trashed By Users.” Just as with his Digg "controversy is interesting" post, Arrington’s Yahoo...
- Tags: Television, TV, Amateur Content, Digg, Social Web, Culture, Yahoo, User-Generated Content, Yahoo! Inc., Social Media, Social Networking, Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2006-12-03
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- Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for Iran
- Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for IranIranians should demand an American invasionIf some Iranians would petition us, we should folow through with the operation Iran's freedom.This operation will be a lot cheaper and more successfull than the Iraq's freedom in 2003.But Obama is...
- Tags: Leadership, Neda, Obama, Web
- Discussion threads 2009-06-23
- Advances in TREKnology
- Advances in TREKnologyI can think of three . . .right off the top of my head:1) The high-speed sliding doors at every mall, store, emergency room, etc, you go to today, came about as a direct result of the inventor seeing it on Star Trek, and wanted to duplicate...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Robots, Corporate communications, Geordi, computer, Kirk
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- Using selfishness to put crowds to work for you
- Using selfishness to put crowds to work for youGood griefHave we become this ignorant where the concept of Adam Smith's invisible hand is counter-intuitive and surprising?No wonder we've elected a freaking marxist as president.Code without good documentation has difficulty reaching critical massWhile some simple utilities can get by without documentation,...
- Tags: Wiki, Investment, Self-Interest, good documentation, selfishness
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- The disruptive tectonic forces at the intersection of technology and media
- The disruptive tectonic forces at the intersection of technology and mediaRE: The disruptive tectonic forces at the intersection of technology and meI wish what you are saying were true. But the country is just dying, and nothing needs to come out of the present troubles.The media is just like...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, News Media, media, tectonic force, disruptive tectonic force, intersection
- Discussion threads 2009-05-03
- Friday Rant - Conficker worm hype
- Friday Rant - Conficker worm hypeHey...come on now......Chicken Little has made a pretty good living with this tactic...what's your problem? ;-)RE: Friday Rant - Conficker worm hypeI agree with you, my boss watched CNN and came in afraid to go online, I even had to run scans again on...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Conficker Worm, Friday Rant, worm, paranoia, Y2K, USB flash drive
- Discussion threads 2009-04-03
- Pwn2Own hacker: Apple Safari is 'easy pickings'
- Pwn2Own hacker: Apple Safari is 'easy pickings'This would be the Charlie Millerwho won by cheating, correct? By using an already known Perl exploit that Apple hadn't patched yet in OS X.The event organizers know he cheated, but didn't have the onions to call him on it. Well, actually, they were...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Miller, Apple Inc., Apple Safari
- Discussion threads 2009-03-03
- Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the past?
- Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the past?BillG is still BillG, so is MSFTi don't think billG has been involved any less than before. maybe a little less in details. but other people's decision only matter if it is not going different way with his.RE: Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the...
- Tags: MSR, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft ThinkWeek, Billg
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- How Microsoft blew the keyword business; And how you still can't count Redmond out
- How Microsoft blew the keyword business; And how you still can't count Redmond outGoogle's search is just plain better.MS and Yahoo can do what they want. But until they have a search engine that can compete with Google's they aren't going anywhere.I personally hate having only one really good...
- Tags: keyword business, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-16
- Hackers exploiting (unpatched) IE 7 flaw to launch drive-by attacks
- Hackers exploiting unpatched IE 7 flaw to launch drive-by attacksCmon Loverock, Comment On This One!That's right, you selectively avoid stories like this. If it's anti-Linux, you pounce right on it.IE7 is a joke.So this doesn't affect XP SP3 or Vista?[i]The Web attacks, first reported by Bob McMillan, takes aim...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, SECURITY, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, exploit, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- Will Virgin Killer be a Wikipedia killer?
- Will Virgin Killer be a Wikipedia killer?please take your bigotry elsewhere, kthxbaiIt is bad that anyone can see what a naked 2yr old boy looks like? You will see a lot more going through the park on a hot day, and a google image search for boy will get you...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Virgin Killer, Virgin
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- Free Software Foundation does the right thing for free culture
- Free Software Foundation does the right thing for free cultureThe "community" does not represent meI don't know how the Wikipedia "community" is going to decide for me how the content I released under the terms of the early versions of the GFDL is suddenly going to be permissible under the...
- Tags: GFDL, Free Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureBring in the ClonesIn that timeframe, there was no way I could afford any computer from a brand name (I didn't have Billy's rich parents and had to work at Burger King to feed my tech habit). The two things that made my choice easier...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Sun Microsystems Inc., PC, computer, Amiga
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- News to know: Yahoo, Blackberry Storm, Black Friday leaks, Smartphones
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Yahoo dips below $10; Icahn, board called out Larry Dignan: Verizon Wireless: Storm lands Nov. 21 Sean Portnoy: Best Buy...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Smartphone, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Free Software Foundation does the right thing for free culture
- The Free Software Foundation's latest version of the GNU Free Documentation License GFDL surprised me a little -- but in a very good way. The FSF has ceded some control and allowed for GFDL content to be re-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. This is a major win...
- Tags: Free Software Foundation, Wikipedia, GNU Free Documentation License, BY-SA, Wiki, Online Communications, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Marketers, stop the hate! Customers are not the enemy
- Guest editorial by Susan Etlinger Back in the seventeenth century, soldiers would spend the cold winter months in towns and garrisons until the weather cleared enough for them to venture back into the field (in Italian, nella campagna) to resume fighting. And...
- Tags: Technologists, Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
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