Category: The Social Web
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I try not to buy into the whole “Facebook is killing privacy” hype, but after seeing this in my News Feed today, I’m pretty sure they know too much: Somebody needs to warn Bill Clinton before it’s too late.
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WikiLeaks needs to clean up their public face.
I really believe in WikiLeaks’ cause. It’s a kind of journalism that wasn’t possible with older communications media, and as such is definitely forcing us to reconsider our values when it comes to reporting, openness, bias, source reliability, censorship, confidential sources, and more. I’m convinced that it will serve as a great benefit to democracy. […]
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P2 FTW
I’m working on a short-turnaround project with two developers, an ERP administrator, and other stakeholders. This is typically the kind of development project where any time spent on administrative overhead or communication (and re-communication) can hold up real progress. So I set up a WordPress instance running the P2 Theme by Automattic this afternoon. P2’s […]
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Growing Pains in the Web’s Social Revolution
I’ve observed these two things in last ten years of evolution in the “Social Web:” The Social Web has made huge changes to the way people express themselves and communicate in their daily lives, generally enhancing connections and making the world a lot smaller. That very same trend has also created more complexity from the […]
Zeke Weeks
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If you’re a personal branding/social web nerd like me, you will greatly enjoy “The Myth of the Personal Brand,” a guest post on Redhead Writing by Aaron Templer. It raises some interesting questions about the very idea of branding real people instead of companies, and a lot of the commenters bring up really good points […]
Zeke Weeks 