Tag Archives: influence

Video: Jon Stewart’s speech at the Rally For Sanity

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Karl

YouTube: Jon Stewart’s speech at the Rally For Sanity.:

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John Scalzi: “Being poor and not feeling rich are not the same thing, don’t confuse the two”

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Karl

John Scalzi, in “Why Not Feeling Rich is Not Being Poor, and Other Things Financial”, reacts to those employing his powerful piece, “Being Poor” against the (in my opinion) lack of empathy Todd Henderson shown in his piece complaining about … Continue reading →

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Counting political party stories on Google News

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Karl

I am *not* accusing anyone of coverage bias. I’d bet that Google News’s story inclusion algorithms probably reflect what people are linking to and discussing generally. Google News: “Republican Party”: 11,579 stories Google News: “Tea Party”: 22,977 stories Google News: … Continue reading →

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Rebooting Democracy thoughts on Activists versus Pundits and Law

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Karl

The difference between an actual organizer/activist working in a movement and someone of the punditry; there are *concrete* artifacts pursued by an organizer/activist and the primary artifact of a pundit is their cult of personality. If there aren’t proposals behind … Continue reading →

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Food for thought links

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Karl

Scott Berkun shares the perfect quote of the week: John F. Kennedy: The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows … Continue reading →

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Tweet into meaning

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Karl

Sociologist Erving Goffmanll said that all of life is performance, and Peggy Orenstein in the NYTimes says that Twitter is a new stage. Jeff Jarvis is getting ready to write a book about “abundant publicness” and some of the thoughts … Continue reading →

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Journalism Warning Labels

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Karl

I like this – a lot. Makes a whole hell of a lot more sense than PMRC warning labels, that’s for sure. I wonder if a Firefox plugin, enabling some social review mechanism to apply these labels would work. Probably … Continue reading →

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Memeorandum has become essential

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Karl

I have been hard on Memeorandum in the past, believing that its story selection algorithm’s were too narrow, that it promoted a small subset of the Web, but just look at it. Look at it again. Memeorandum is the only … Continue reading →

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Two questioning reports on social networking and culture

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Karl

Jeffrey Rosen in the NYTimes reports on the effects social networking will have on our efforts to redefine ourselves: It’s often said that we live in a permissive era, one with infinite second chances. But the truth is that for … Continue reading →

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Ethan Zuckerman at TEDGlobal on the challenge and opportunity

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Karl

Interested in how information reaches those it needs to reach? Intersted in acts of journalism crossing cultural gulfs and divides? Interested in web services and connectivity? You will want to watch Ethan Zuckerman’s talk at TEDGlobal 2010 and I hope … Continue reading →

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