Developing Online Platforms, Building Community
Let’s not beat around the bush – as of today, I’m shutting down my blog. It’s been a long time coming, but I doubt anyone will be terribly surprised. I mean, look at you – you’re here, you’re reading… But you don’t pass it on. You don’t comment. You don’t say hi. You don’t engage. [...]
Some people know what’s going on. Everywhere. All the time. We call these people journalists. They’re the gatherers, the curators. Journalists present the facts, add value and perspective, conduct analysis. Some people are what’s going on. We see them everywhere. All the time. Most of the time, when considering these people, we call them celebrities. [...]
News hit the techiverse today that Google may be shutting down Google.cn in response to a “massive infrastructure attack” on its servers in December. Within a half hour of the news breaking on the Google Blog, the tech community rallied. So far Mashable, Search Engine Land and other blogs have the biggest stories – but [...]
I had intended to post this as a comment on Jeff Jarvis’ BuzzMachine post about Google’s Synchronicity – but it got a bit long, so I thought I’d share here instead and, hopefully, invite the ghost of journalism’s future to comment – if he’s listening. Please, go read the original article if you’d like to [...]
After the Great War, France erected a line of defence on its border with Italy and Germany, hoping that it would provide a funnel for attackers wishing to avoid the line itself, or that invaders would simply get made into hamburger by the many many guns. Unfortunately, like many reactionary measures, it was built to [...]
