HOTSOUP.com I am less impressed with this top-down approach to creating citizen opinion than I am with Campaigns Wikia: http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Campaigns_Wikia …which is from the founder of WikiPedia. Besides, HotSoup gave me an .asp error on their little “tell us your opinion” widget. Bad mojo if you can’t handle setting up a simple web form. I […]
Campaigns Wikia – Central Campaign Wikia What Wikipedia is to encylopedic information, Campaign Wikia hopes to be for elections and politics in the US
Big Ten Who owns the media in America? Not many companies control the information you see/hear/read. Look and learn. This is why “net neutrality” and citizen media are the most important areas of action.
The headline screams — Another movie studio offers movie downloads! What it whispers is “another movie studio offers movie downloads you can purchase and view if you have the right operating system version and are using the right web browser. Effectively rendering the service useless. Warner Bros. sells films via Guba.com – Yahoo! News LOS […]
The New Media Consortium (NMC) posts a video about their 2nd life “campus” during the 2006 conference: >The 2006 NMC Summer Conference was held June 7-10, 2006, in Cleveland, Ohio. Hosts were Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. http://www.nmc.org/sl/2006/06/12/second-life-movie/ […]
Why Email is Broken What I mean by silo’ed is that email traps information into personalized, unsharable, unsearchable vacuums where no one else can access it – the Email Inbox. Think of your Email Inbox as a heavily fortified walled garden. Not mentioning the difficulties many have accessing their Email Inbox outside the corporate firewall, […]
Stromcode – AJAX: Building a Spy So this guy works on Glowfoto, another photo sharing site. Hadn’t heard of it until now.
cheesebikini/208-: Weblog Assignment 1 class weblog on social software experiences
Rosenfeld Media – Publisher of user experience design books Very interesting mashup for publishing models. Rather than releasing huge door stoppers they will release smaller volumes of content more regularly, and, respond to customer desires rather than purely “what will sell” guess meetings.