Phil Wolff: technologyLike art, technologies are ideas made real. Technology on dijest.comKill Bill movie-references guide- April 13, 2004 Scaramouche (1952, George Sidney) The Bride versus Johnny Mo fighting on the railing. An influence across generations. While I'm reading how memes diffuse through the blogosphere in hours and days. I love the web.http://tarantino.webds.de/tarantino/movie/killbill/articles/references-guide.htm Social Networking Technology Forum, 28-April 7pm, Berkeley- April 13, 2004 Brian Sarrazin turned me on to this Social Networking Forum at Cal. Wednesday, April 28th, 2004, 7p-9:15 pm. Wells Fargo Room on the Haas Campus. Topics look worthwhile: the economic incentives of SNT and the concept of &147;incrementalism&148; the efficacy of SNT in building long-term relationships the opportunities of ubiquitous computing, efficient user interfaces, database scaling and more intelligent query engines the global marketplace as facilitated by SNT; market...http://www.craigslist.org/eby/tce/28347945.html Google News + Technorati + Citizen Blogging =- April 12, 2004 Out of the millions who blog, a handful do what professionals call journalism. Would more be better Should we actively promote citizen journalism We could. Local Civic Journalism clubs. A full blown track in public school starting at age 8. An awards ceremony like the Pulitzer for best CJ reporting, best analysis, best thread, best catch of something missed by major media. Grants to develop curriculum for Business, Science, Public Affairs, Sports reportage. A professional guild helping...http://www.google.com/search?q=Google+News+Technorati+Citizen+Blogging Mail is part of Google's enterprise strategy.- April 3, 2004 Jeff Jarvis says Google email (gmail) is just another portal me-too. I don't think so, Jeff. Email has juice. Only telephones are used more. 40% of a company's knowledge is stored in its email boxes, hidden from intranet search engines, locked away on desktops. Email is rich with: social information (who is asked about what, who redistributes information to whom), time signatures (sent, received, read, forwarded, printed), threading and propagation clues (A sent it to B who replied..http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2004_04_02.html#006733 Emergent disorganization: lessons from East Bay Kerry.- April 2, 2004 I've been rationalizing the 30-50 hours a week of grassroots campaigning I've been investing in the local Kerry campaign since last summer. Changing the world is great, and we're doing that. My takeaway is what I learn from it, how the work itself changes me. Here are a few lessons learned. EQ is more important than IQ. Everything in campaigns is about emotion. Values trigger emotions, as do symbols of those values. And emotions get you money, volunteers, votes. Campaigns are tough on the...http://dijest.typepad.com/eastbaypapers/2004/03/a_hypothetical_.html |