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My old blogger friend Steven Hodson asked if I would do an interview for his blog. I was flattered, said yes, and here it is.
I talk politics, blogging, social media, and how all of them will play out in our future. Go have a look. Got other questions? Ask them there or here [...]
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Part of the magic of yesterday’s 90-minute real-time conversation with the Republicans in Baltimore was the spontaneous rise of attention. Within minutes, Twitter is abuzz. Everyone is transfixed. Everyone. It was some of the best political theater I’ve seen, ever. I call it theater because all of the drama, timing, dialogue and personalities were there, [...]
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With finally a minute or two on my hands to reflect back on this week, the heated dialogue, and the political firestorms that have raged across the Internet, a few thoughts are bubbling up worth thinking about more…
Faux populi – The strange persistent meme that permeates our media lately goes like this: Populism [...]
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Gotcha. You shouldn’t believe everything you read on the Internet. If you did, you might believe that Joe Lieberman had endorsed Scott Brown in Massachusetts. Never mind that such an endorsement would be ridiculous for Lieberman to make, given that his fortunes rest better with Democrats than Republicans regardless of the Massachusetts outcome.
Actually, Lieberman [...]
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Once again words are tossed around the Internet without much regard for the harm they do. This debate started over the weekend (as most of them do), and rages on. Two and a half years after Kathy Sierra’s withdrawal from the Internet, I’m still writing about the same stuff. I suppose I will be until [...]
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I’m writing this from the Community Unconference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. It’s been a very interesting day in many ways. Lots of shifts in the community landscape and a clear division between those who are here representing the traditional forms of community (message boards, forums, etc) and those merging traditional communities into the real-time spaces of Twitter and Facebook while still trying to keep a hand on managing their brand and keeping community “sticky”.
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