Category: General

Lawrence Lessig on a key difference between YouTube and Flickr: So there’s an important distinction developing among “user generated contentâ€? sites — the distinction between sites that permit “true sharingâ€? and those that permit only what I’ll call “fake sharing.â€? A “true sharingâ€? site doesn’t try to exercise ultimate control over the content it serves. […]

How Blogs Changed the World The language of blogging is more digestible. You can’t write a blog like a press release, so the words have to be more direct, unscripted, and easier to understand. Bloggers who try to hide behind marketing-speak will be called out. Blogs are written in a narrative style that gives better […]

Be Yourself to Make the Most of Social Networking However you decide to use social networking, it has to fit your organization. If your organization trembles at the thought of open and public feedback, you better think twice about social networking. But if video clips can tell your story and you’re willing to give up […]

On our Podcasting Bootcamp call last week Tim (my guest star for that week) and I were talking about the trends that podcasting and blogging embody. I talked about my  background in the hteatre and performing arts and how essentially podcasting is the exact opposite of theatre. In theatre everyone shows up at the agreed […]

(written yesterday – wouldn’t post from cafe for some reason:) And it is Tuesday. I haven’t done a journal-ish entry in this blog so here goes. Sitting here at the Argo Tea Cafe on Broadway – they have free wi-fi. Not many people here right now but it is only 9:47. In the afternoon the […]

Home for the holidays means trip to the Wal-Mart Superstore. Sometimes it’s so quiet in Clarksville, Indiana you can hear the money being sucked out of the community. The bottle says CRANBERRY and 100% JUICE. But it isn’t 100% cranberry juice. It is cranberry juice mixed with apple juice. So yes – it is 100% […]

Tony Blair’s outgoing chief strategist on blogs: What is the big breakthrough, in terms of politics, on the web in the last few years? It’s basically blogs which are, generally speaking, hostile and, generally speaking, basically see their job as every day exposing how venal, stupid, mendacious politicians are. Because the major corporate-owned media isn’t […]

I think I’m in love. I rolled out Denis’s Semiologic system (an incredibly souped-up set of WordPress templates – well, really an overhaul of the whole WordPress system). Anyway – I’ve been moving all my blogs into the Seimologic format and I was trying to figure out how to do something (not have my sidebar […]

I’m going my blog into the Semiologic format so this blog may have hiccups over the next few hours.

Jim Skyped me about his recent post about the Pay-per-post model that is starting to be ratcheted up by companies like Pay Per Post, Loudcloud and Creamaid: Is pay-per-post [without disclosure] a “black hat” business model? Some would say that it is but they are among the purists in the blogosphere. The blogger capitalists that […]