Tag: community
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SXSW Day Two: Tantek Çelik, Creating Building Blocks for Independents
Tantek Çelik, Chief Technologist at Technorati, is shooting to enable the independents of the world. Building blocks are built by both experts and non-experts to advance the enablement of independents. Blogger did this in new ways. Publishing content on your own site and made extremely easily. Creative Commons is a building block as well, but […]
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SXSW Day Two: James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki, staff writer at the New Yorker, speaks about the future of tapping into the wisdom of the crowd – Making a horseracing analogy to the wisdom of the crowds. As the odds go, so do the results. The idea is that based on the varied expertise of the crowds, the odds begin to […]
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To Move On…
I grew up across the Hudson, about 13 miles west in a town called Montclair. Our home stood on a hill on the western side of town, with my bedroom resting on the top, eastern side of our three floor Victorian. My eyes could skip over Anderson Park, past downtown Upper Montclair and over the thin […]
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America Is Mos Def
Mother nature dropped Katrina. The federal government dropped the ball. Kanye West dropped the illest freestyle in the midst of the harshest climate. And Mos Def just dropped Katrina Klap, a jam that will undoubtedly mark this moment in the annals of hip-hop and social activism. 1, 2, 3, 4 bust it! This is for […]
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Newsweek Blog Talk: An Innovator?
Newsweek and Technorati are in bed together and I’m really hoping it isn’t a monogamous relationship. I’m not sure when this started, but Newsweek is now citing “Blog Talk,” creating a contextual column from the Newsweek article page that links to a full Blog Talk page which presents the last 10 blogs posts that have […]
You Are Standing In An Open Field 