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Just to let you all know that now I am no longer a candidate for the NH House, nor a newly elected member,I am starting a new blog to share ideas, dreams, goals, strategies, events, and other stuff that strikes my fancy. I have about 50 days left before my retirement from full-time paid work, and will expand on things I have been struggling to pay enough attention to, and add some new activities and, I hope, comrades on the journey.
The Nation's Ari Melber has an article outlining a new study done by researchers at Harvard, Yale, and Berkeley. Titled A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices on the Left and Right, the study finds, among other things, that liberal blogs tend to use platforms that allow multiple authors to be featured, while conservative ones allow for one main writer and online newspaper style comments at the bottom, if that.
Our favorite irascible media tyrant is in the news once again, and once again it's time for me to bring you a story of doing one thing while wishing for another.
We have heard a lot about the...how can I put this politely...challenges Murdoch seems to face associating factual reality with his reality, and we could have lots of fun going through his factual misstatements-but instead, I want to take on one specific issue today:
Rupert Murdoch says he hates it when people steal his content from the Internet to draw readers to their sites...which is funny, if you think about it, because he has no problem at all stealing my content (and lots of yours, as well) for his sites.
It has been an amazing week in Iran, and you are no doubt seeing images that would have been unimaginable just a few weeks ago.
For most of us, Iran has been a country about which we know very little...which, obviously, makes it tough to put the limited news we're getting into a proper context.
The goal of today's conversation is to give you a bit more of an "insider look" at today's news; and to do that we'll describe some of the risks Iranian bloggers face as they go about their business, we'll meet a blogging Iranian cleric, we'll address the issue of what tools the Iranians use for Internet censorship and the companies that could potentially be helping it along, and then we'll examine Internet traffic patterns into and out of Iran.
Finally, a few words about, of all things, how certain computer games might be useful as tools of revolution.
This is disturbing. It's more than disturbing. It makes me heartsick.
Chris Locke (and all the other Cluetrain people) are/were heroes of mine, and really the godfathers of the social media revolution (although they'd be quick to point out the term "social media" is pretty tepid bathwater).
The Cluetrain Manifesto was a book that asserted that the Internet could humanize commerce and politics and all the things which had become so horribly faceless in the 20th century. And it could do that because the DNA of the web was conversational rather than broadcast-driven.
So how did we get here? How did a feud between Kathy Sierra and the crew at MeanKids get to this point (and for those of you who will complain about me not transcribing what ugliness I am talking about -- go to the above link. I will not replicate it on this blog).
Scoble is heartsick and is taking the week off. Frank Paynter and Jeneane Sessum have apologized. We're waiting on Chris Locke. All the Locke sites are down. My hope is Locke is also not involved with the worst bits of ugliness. At least that is my hope. Time will tell.
If you don't understand this post, don't worry about it. You may be blissfully unaware of the brave new world that seemed around the corner in 1999.
But if you do understand this, it's worth asking, perhaps, not only how we got here, but how we can stop getting here, again and again.
