Hashtags are becoming a useful way to organize information in today’s information age, when data is spread over a multitude of platforms. It is incredibly time consuming to log into Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and every other niche network that you have an account on and update the same information over and over again. However, with […]
A chat with the co-founder of FriendFeed
A chat with the co-founder of FriendFeed from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Today came word that Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, is buying the microblogging service FriendFeed. This is interesting on a couple of levels. First, it provides further proof that Twitter — the microblogging platform that has taken the world by storm […]
7 questions for the author of ‘Say Everything’
Scott Rosenberg sketches his vision of blogosphere’s impact on our culture Scott Rosenberg, co-founder and longtime managing editor of Salon — and a longtime friend — has a new book out, following Dreaming in Code, called Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters (Crown Publishing Group). It’s a well-written, well-researched, […]
Tombstones and milestones
Personal account of the transformation of publishing and the evolution of authority–referencing Britannica, Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times
Final reflections on the Traveling Geeks trip
It has been one month since the Traveling Geeks kicked off our trip to London and Cambridge with a Tweetup at JuJu in Chelsea. (I was the chief organizer of trip.) From this distance and vantage point, here are a few random impressions: • I think too much can be made of the differences between […]