I like to read non-fiction books in my “field” of information and social empowerment. And, like a lot of people, I sometimes annotate books as I read them. In doing so, I am, in effect, “tagging” portions of the book with metadata. I’m applying my own, personally meaningful expressions to words fixed on the page. … Continue reading Tagging and the Back-of-the-Book Index
My wife is taking some classes at Beadfest, an annual gathering of people interested in making beaded jewelry. And it made me think of the Origami convention that a friend of mine goes to every year. (I’ve remarked on this convention before because of that event’s use of labels that attendees can wear, indicating either… Continue reading Folks just want to share what they know
Perhaps I laud him too much (I see his name is quite big in my tag cloud), but here is a 17-minute talk given by Clay Shirky at the U.S. State Department last month. It is the epitome of what gets me excited about this whole damn thing we’re living through. “Web 2.0” is just… Continue reading Clay Shirky on the transformation of media
I expect that N2Y4 (the 4th annual NetSquared conference) to be the only professional conference I’ll attend this year (except, perhaps, for stuff in the Philly area). As a Net Tuesday organizer, NetSquared generously picked up the hotel and conference registration, but I had to buy the plane ticket out to California and some meals,… Continue reading Impressions from N2Y4 (2 of 2: Other Net Tuesday Organizers)
I’ve just returned from N2Y4, the 4th annual NetSquared conference in San Jose, CA. The main focus this year was the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge, and the lion’s share of content was wrapped around that. Frankly, this was not especially appealing to me ahead of time. I’ve had a Blackberry for about a year now, and… Continue reading Impressions from N2Y4 (1 of 2: Mobile Technology for Social Change)
I had coffee the other day with John S. James, a very interesting person who has come to a couple of Net Tuesday Philly events. We met primarily to discuss his idea of “smart accounts” – a sort of alternative compensation scheme for enabling online consumers to get something for free – while simultaneously compensating… Continue reading About putting out new ideas
Well, I’m starting a new blog here. I’ll be pulling over posts from the previous Blogger blog I shared with Bob Leming, and staking out some turf to express myself. I feel like I have a lot to say. So, now I have to say it.
March 7, 2009, Philadelphia – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE What unites a rapper, a singer/songwriter, three jewelry-makers, a documentary on women in the media, a raffle, a silent auction, and a music video? Stumped? They’re all coming together for an Arts Free-for-All Party to raise money for filmmaker Hannah ‘helyx’ Horwitz’s documentary about American teens in… Continue reading Madly Multi-Arts Party to Back Documentary Filmmaker on Saturday, March 14
The NetSquared “think tank” topic this month is: What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in the changing world of social media? When I first read it, however, I mentally transposed “the changing” to “changing the” and read it as: What do you think the role of nonprofit organizations is in changing… Continue reading Why nonprofits should promote social media in general
I really enjoyed an interesting Philadelphia Knowledge Management group web conference last week, led by Steve Ennen (Managing Director of the Wharton Interactive Media Initiative) on Measuring Knowledge Management in a Web 2.0 World. At one point in the session, Steve referred to a recent paper by some folks at the HP Social Computing Lab,… Continue reading The Strength of Weak Ties today
