Archives: 2008/03

Ward Cunningham’s About Us venture
2008/3/19 (Wednesday) | Filed under: dt=podcast, ported from old Blogger blog

I just listened to an interesting podcasted interview with Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the wiki. He’s currently working with a new start-up called AboutUs with a very intriguing premise. AboutUs takes the text from various domains’ “About Us” pages, along with WhoIs information and probably other stuff, and puts it all into a publicly [...]

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NEIT “Solutions”: Bad!
2008/3/13 (Thursday) | Filed under: ported from old Blogger blog

Being new to this blogging game, I’m still trying to get a feel for what to write. At the moment, I feel like screaming to the world my frustration with my hosting provider, NEIT Solutions, that hosts my communishare.org site. They’ve been pretty good for years, but a couple weeks ago, they changed servers, and [...]

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Here Comes Everybody
2008/3/13 (Thursday) | Filed under: dt=book

I’ve just begun reading a terrific brand new book (publication date February 2008!), Here Comes Everybody : The Power of Organizing without Organizations by Clay Shirky. It’s about how people are spontaneously and organically forming all sorts of groups and achieving all sorts of tasks via new electronic media.
He offers, for me, the clearest explanation [...]

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Valdis Krebs and social network silos
2008/3/12 (Wednesday) | Filed under: dt=podcast, ported from old Blogger blog

I just listened to a great podcasted interview with Valdis Krebs. I was introduced to the work of Valdis Krebs by Stan Pokras way back when we were publishing the Other Networks newsletter in the early ’80’s. Valdis is a pioneer in the realm of social network analysis (SNA), a disciplined, statistical practice which long [...]

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