Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
A helping hand from Technorati?
I've heard about people whose small-minded partners keep track of things like who does more dishes or who remembers birthdays and anniversaries. And I'm usually sympathetic to my friends who complain that love can't be run on a point system. But that's because typical...
Setting up Bloglines subscriptions
A little more guidance for those just getting started with RSS: some more step-by-step advice on adding RSS feeds to your Bloglines account. When you're on a site that you'd like to subscribe to, click on the "sub with Bloglines" button on your toolbar (the one you...
Category feeds in WordPress
TangognaT helpfully provides a surprisingly hard-to-find answer to a pretty basic question: how do you create category-specific RSS feeds in WordPress? And the answer is... All you need to do is add a ?cat=# of category to the base url for any wordpress feed. ...so if...
Beth’s Blog: Social Bookmarking Conversation Continues While Inventing New Words
Beth Kanter continues our bloggespondence on social bookmarking with the very well-taken point that a prettier del.icio.us (my summary of Jots may actually be worth something if it makes social bookmarking useful to a wider audience, though as she notes herself the...
Your dream job: Representative Apple
If you love politics and you love Apple, have I found the job for you: Manager of Congressional Relations for Apple. That's right, Apple is looking for a [wo]man in DC to schmooze and hobnob on behalf of the Maciverse. Let's hope they get somebody great!
Looking for Diablogue?
I’m consolidating blogs: in future you can find my posts about civic engagement, online dialogue and related topics on Otherwise Engaged.
Technorati previews tag feeds
The beta Technorati makeover is now online and hurrah! it includes RSS feeds for tag pages. These feeds will make it much easier for people to aggregate blog-related content from across the web by subscribing to a particular tag feed — either within a newsreader like Bloglines or for republishing on a web site […]
YASBoS: Jots
Beth Kanter has added a great gnomz cartoon to our bloggespondence (Rob, please add this to your Lexicon for the New Millennium) on del.icio.us and social bookmarking. Beth's latest post on the subject pointed me to Jots, yet another social bookmarking site (OK, lets...
How to raise a gay-friendly child
Jennifer Gerarda Brown has posted a great set of tips on how to raise a gay-friendly child on the Lessig blog. A nice e.g. of the strong respect for civil rights that fits well with Lessig-style cyberpolitics.
Conference on Social Capital & ICTs
The European Social Capital, Quality of Life & Information Society Technologies project (SOCQUIT) is holding a 2-day conference in Paris (!) this September. The conference will reviw the results of SOQUIT’s research into the impact of IT on social capital, which focuses particularly on work and employment, aging population, local initiatives and migrants. For […]
The Harvard Business Review
A helping hand from Technorati?
I've heard about people whose small-minded partners keep track of things like who does more dishes or who remembers birthdays and anniversaries. And I'm usually sympathetic to my friends who complain that love can't be run on a point system. But that's because typical...
Setting up Bloglines subscriptions
A little more guidance for those just getting started with RSS: some more step-by-step advice on adding RSS feeds to your Bloglines account. When you're on a site that you'd like to subscribe to, click on the "sub with Bloglines" button on your toolbar (the one you...
Category feeds in WordPress
TangognaT helpfully provides a surprisingly hard-to-find answer to a pretty basic question: how do you create category-specific RSS feeds in WordPress? And the answer is... All you need to do is add a ?cat=# of category to the base url for any wordpress feed. ...so if...
Beth’s Blog: Social Bookmarking Conversation Continues While Inventing New Words
Beth Kanter continues our bloggespondence on social bookmarking with the very well-taken point that a prettier del.icio.us (my summary of Jots may actually be worth something if it makes social bookmarking useful to a wider audience, though as she notes herself the...
Your dream job: Representative Apple
If you love politics and you love Apple, have I found the job for you: Manager of Congressional Relations for Apple. That's right, Apple is looking for a [wo]man in DC to schmooze and hobnob on behalf of the Maciverse. Let's hope they get somebody great!
Looking for Diablogue?
I’m consolidating blogs: in future you can find my posts about civic engagement, online dialogue and related topics on Otherwise Engaged.
Technorati previews tag feeds
The beta Technorati makeover is now online and hurrah! it includes RSS feeds for tag pages. These feeds will make it much easier for people to aggregate blog-related content from across the web by subscribing to a particular tag feed — either within a newsreader like Bloglines or for republishing on a web site […]
YASBoS: Jots
Beth Kanter has added a great gnomz cartoon to our bloggespondence (Rob, please add this to your Lexicon for the New Millennium) on del.icio.us and social bookmarking. Beth's latest post on the subject pointed me to Jots, yet another social bookmarking site (OK, lets...
How to raise a gay-friendly child
Jennifer Gerarda Brown has posted a great set of tips on how to raise a gay-friendly child on the Lessig blog. A nice e.g. of the strong respect for civil rights that fits well with Lessig-style cyberpolitics.
Conference on Social Capital & ICTs
The European Social Capital, Quality of Life & Information Society Technologies project (SOCQUIT) is holding a 2-day conference in Paris (!) this September. The conference will reviw the results of SOQUIT’s research into the impact of IT on social capital, which focuses particularly on work and employment, aging population, local initiatives and migrants. For […]
OneZero
Online collaboration for your right brain, part 2: MindMeister…
How to use MindMeister as a powerful tool for collaborative mindmapping and brainstorming.
Kris Krug on Web 2.0 at STT
Technology and copyright
Technology is obsoleting copyright law. Encourages people to use Creative Commons for all their work.
» bonus tip: When publishing with Creative Commons, use the attribution noncommercial license, which means that any non-profit can republish your content, as long as they credit you as the original author (or photographer). But businesses won’t be allowed to take your content and make money with it.
Promote ownership of your brand
Let people remix your content. Give them creative assets to work with.
Let go of control. Don’t make the mistake the music industry made — trying to loc down their content, and alienating their fans.
Document everything
If it didn’t happen on the Internet, it didn’t happen.
The power of open source
Open source software development is inherently tied to social change. They are building things for the common grood while working around traditional power models.
Vision Vancouver debate
So far no huge policy differences except on the idea of a “speculator tax†(Gregor: pro. Al: con. Raymond: ?)
A great member question: your supporters can select a 2nd choice on the preferential ballot. What can you tell them about your two opponents’ qualities and contributions to guide their decision?
I was sorry that none of the three responded with specific praise for the others’ virtues. It was such a nice opportunity to transcend the “fight†paradigm.
Bringing your online community to life
Building an online community is just the first step. Here are my tips on bringing your online community to life.
Free tix to Sex and The City…and some help for sex trade workers
Today marks the release of Sex and the City: The Movie. With the news that SATCTM tix are selling out, your friends at Social Signal (part of the original Change Everything team) want to save you from the nightmare of a Sex-less weekend. We’ve got twenty tickets to the 8 pm show on Saturday, May 31st, at the Fifth Avenue Cinema on Burrard Street.
The first twenty girlfriends to e-mail me (alex [at] socialsignal [dot] com) will be our guests on Saturday night. We’re also working on a plan for pre- or post-film cosmos (let us know what works better for you when you RSVP).
If you’d like to pass on the love, Social Signal will match any ticket-sized donations you make to WISH, the Women’s Information Safe Haven.WISH provides female survival sex workers with shelter, essential needs supports, and alternatives to their high-risk lifestyles. You can donate online or in person on Saturday night.
We hope to see you on Saturday!
See Sex and the City with your friends at Social Signal
Today marks the release of Sex and the City: The Movie. With the news that SATCTM tix are selling out, your friends at Social Signal want to save you from the nightmare of a Sex-less weekend. We've got twenty tickets to the 8 pm show on Saturday, May 31st, at the Fifth Avenue Cinema on Burrard Street.
The first twenty Social Signal girlfriends to e-mail me (alex [at] socialsignal [dot] com) will be our guests on Saturday night. We're also working on a plan for pre- or post-film cosmos (let us know what works better for you when you RSVP).
If you'd like to pass on the love, Social Signal will match any ticket-sized donations you make to WISH, the Women's Information Safe Haven. WISH provides female survival sex workers with shelter, essential needs supports, and alternatives to their high-risk lifestyles. You can donate online or in person on Saturday night.
We hope to see you on Saturday!
Mary Robinson on media freedom
The Elders' Every Human Has Rights campaign has just relaunched its site (on Drupal!) We've been privileged to work with the EHHR team in telling the story of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights online. For a great snapshot of why the UDHR matters, check out the great PSA featuring Mary Robinson on media freedom.
Fighting lice in Vancouver
We knew this day would come. Lice...yuck! As we struggle to contain the lice outbreak on our kids' heads, we share the following resources and insights: Think carefully before using pharmaceutical lice remedies like Nix. They are based on a natural derivative from...
JSTOR DAILY
Online collaboration for your right brain, part 2: MindMeister…
How to use MindMeister as a powerful tool for collaborative mindmapping and brainstorming.
Kris Krug on Web 2.0 at STT
Technology and copyright
Technology is obsoleting copyright law. Encourages people to use Creative Commons for all their work.
» bonus tip: When publishing with Creative Commons, use the attribution noncommercial license, which means that any non-profit can republish your content, as long as they credit you as the original author (or photographer). But businesses won’t be allowed to take your content and make money with it.
Promote ownership of your brand
Let people remix your content. Give them creative assets to work with.
Let go of control. Don’t make the mistake the music industry made — trying to loc down their content, and alienating their fans.
Document everything
If it didn’t happen on the Internet, it didn’t happen.
The power of open source
Open source software development is inherently tied to social change. They are building things for the common grood while working around traditional power models.
Vision Vancouver debate
So far no huge policy differences except on the idea of a “speculator tax†(Gregor: pro. Al: con. Raymond: ?)
A great member question: your supporters can select a 2nd choice on the preferential ballot. What can you tell them about your two opponents’ qualities and contributions to guide their decision?
I was sorry that none of the three responded with specific praise for the others’ virtues. It was such a nice opportunity to transcend the “fight†paradigm.
Bringing your online community to life
Building an online community is just the first step. Here are my tips on bringing your online community to life.
Free tix to Sex and The City…and some help for sex trade workers
Today marks the release of Sex and the City: The Movie. With the news that SATCTM tix are selling out, your friends at Social Signal (part of the original Change Everything team) want to save you from the nightmare of a Sex-less weekend. We’ve got twenty tickets to the 8 pm show on Saturday, May 31st, at the Fifth Avenue Cinema on Burrard Street.
The first twenty girlfriends to e-mail me (alex [at] socialsignal [dot] com) will be our guests on Saturday night. We’re also working on a plan for pre- or post-film cosmos (let us know what works better for you when you RSVP).
If you’d like to pass on the love, Social Signal will match any ticket-sized donations you make to WISH, the Women’s Information Safe Haven.WISH provides female survival sex workers with shelter, essential needs supports, and alternatives to their high-risk lifestyles. You can donate online or in person on Saturday night.
We hope to see you on Saturday!
See Sex and the City with your friends at Social Signal
Today marks the release of Sex and the City: The Movie. With the news that SATCTM tix are selling out, your friends at Social Signal want to save you from the nightmare of a Sex-less weekend. We've got twenty tickets to the 8 pm show on Saturday, May 31st, at the Fifth Avenue Cinema on Burrard Street.
The first twenty Social Signal girlfriends to e-mail me (alex [at] socialsignal [dot] com) will be our guests on Saturday night. We're also working on a plan for pre- or post-film cosmos (let us know what works better for you when you RSVP).
If you'd like to pass on the love, Social Signal will match any ticket-sized donations you make to WISH, the Women's Information Safe Haven. WISH provides female survival sex workers with shelter, essential needs supports, and alternatives to their high-risk lifestyles. You can donate online or in person on Saturday night.
We hope to see you on Saturday!
Mary Robinson on media freedom
The Elders' Every Human Has Rights campaign has just relaunched its site (on Drupal!) We've been privileged to work with the EHHR team in telling the story of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights online. For a great snapshot of why the UDHR matters, check out the great PSA featuring Mary Robinson on media freedom.
Fighting lice in Vancouver
We knew this day would come. Lice...yuck! As we struggle to contain the lice outbreak on our kids' heads, we share the following resources and insights: Think carefully before using pharmaceutical lice remedies like Nix. They are based on a natural derivative from...
THE VERGE
Blacksburg reminds us how to worry about our kids
What you choose when you choose a network
When I went to work for the Rae government, I thought the choice of which computer to use was a choice of Mac vs PC. But what I was really choosing was a connection to a group of people who would change my life, and the future of our country.
Finding the soul of the web in HTML
