I’m looking forward to Jeff Jarvis’ book, Public Parts. I’m really hoping that it’s a book that convinces my mother – and her generation – that social networking isn’t just a frivolous activity.
All the fuss about privacy is distracting us from the more important issue: Facebook has broken the social contract to turn our freely given data into something more valuable.
Jay Rosen’s TEDx talk didn’t have the same brunt force that Jeff Jarvis delivered with “bullshit,” but Rosen’s outline for crowdsourcing is extremely enlightening.
A review of NewsTrust’s new personalized aggregator MyNews from a user who used to work there.
A quick reaction to a great podcast: Microsoft should use its monopoly position to make decisions that benefit us all instead of wavering in the useless middle.
Notes on the Hacks and Hackers event at Google on how Google Wave can be used for journalism and thoughts about what how to pitch Wave.
A response to Jay Rosen’s theory of the newspapers’ quest for innocence: sources are going direct, the Fourth Estate has lost its teeth, and Objectivity is killing good journalism.
An open letter to my senator, asking her to help fix the mobile phone industry which is threatening business and net neutrality. As the senator for Silicon Valley, I figure she’s the right person to ask.
A few quick guesses on what the design and strategy of Google Chrome OS might be. Mostly because it’s fun to guess.
Continuing the A Web Design Critique series, this post does a quick comparison of a TIME article in the online and print editions.