From the monthly archives: February 2007

Odeo for Sale

By On February 20, 2007 · Leave a Comment

GigaOm reports that Ev Williams has Odeo up for sale. I understand why Ev needs to do this but it makes me sad.

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Change can be good, Make Media

By On February 19, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Ed Cone had a good op-ed article in the N&R yesterday titled The way we politick now. Of course you can find it on his blog. (It wasn’t so long ago that MSM would flip out if you put your column on your own webpage.) He brings up several great points about how [...]

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Check out Change.org

By On February 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Non-profit techies have been dreaming of ways to use new web 2.0 stuff to help good causes. We’re always suggesting people use Digg, Facebook, De.licio.us, Flickr, and YouTube for positive social change work. Problem is they are all separate services with communities that aren’t focused on non-profit missions. What would happen if we mashed all [...]

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I love you Ruby!

By On February 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The title says it all…

What kind of geek would i be if I didn’t tell her I loved her on my blog?

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Take the Bloggers Bowling!

By On February 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Ever since Anton announced that we we’re going to have a blogger meetup at a bowling alley I’ve been hearing this song in my head. Camper Van Beethoven had it right. We need to Take the Skinheads Bloggers Bowling!

Join the Chapel Hill bloggers this Wednesday as we bowl a few games [...]

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KFTY lays off staff, will Rely on Viewer Submitted Content

By On February 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A good friend sent me a link to a blog post called Scenes from the media revolution.

Thomas Lifson
A small terrestrial (i.e., the kind that uses normal tower-based transmission) broadcast television station, KFTY, Channel 50 in Santa Rosa, California, has fired its entire news staff and is going to rely on viewer-submitted [...]

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Harnessing the Work of Bloggers

By On February 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I wrote the following on my AudioActivism blog on May 24th, 2006.

Techorati has announced a new business relationship with the Associated Press. Read more about it at Technorati Teams With The Associated Press to Connect Bloggers To More Than 440 Newspapers Nationwide.

I was once told that the real definition of a [...]

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Deleting Offending Comments on YouTube

By On February 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Ever since Ruby and I posted a video response to John Edwards video announcement on YouTube I’ve been dealing with right wingers talking shit. So far I’ve deleted two comments and blocked the YouTube users.

The last person claimed I was censoring him for deleting his comment. Here is my response to that:

Let [...]

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The General Assembly belongs to the people, not the powerful

By On February 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

HKonJ: Big March in Raleigh Tomorrow
Historic Thousands on Jones Street, aka HKonJ, is tomorrow. Check out this video of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, President of the North Carolina State NAACP.

From the HKonJ website:

HKonJ: The People’s General Assembly

In order to make substantial and progressive change [...]

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Yahoo’s Pipes

By On February 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

This new online software creation app by Yahoo called Pipes could be a big deal. (requires Yahoo login) I’m going to play with it this weekend and report back here.

It seems to me much more than a way to mash up different web services. Its a visual programing tool. Non-techie people programing could [...]

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