Categories: dt=podcast
- About Civic Capital
I’ve been interested in social capital for many years (though I didn’t have a name for it before reading Robert Putnam’s groundbreaking book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community.) But I’d never heard the phrase civic capital before hearing it used to describe the effect of Barack Obama’s successful “netroots” campaign. The [...]
- Ward Cunningham’s About Us venture
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 [...]
- Valdis Krebs and social network silos
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 [...]
