Ilove Israel, and have loved it even before my visit there last April as a member of the Traveling Geeks. (Here were my dispatches, including a video of our visit to a Bedouin Arab family’s village of Khawalid in northern Israel.) So it’s always difficult as a journalist to report about something you have an emotional stake in.
Book review of ‘Viral Spiral’
We needed someone to chronicle the creative ferment and astonishing changes whipping around us in the Web 2.0-enabled commons. And now David Bollier has done so in his meticulous and very readable new book, Viral Spiral (New Press, $27 hardcover), whose publication date is either tomorrow or next week. (Disclosure: I’ve known the author since […]
‘We’re living in a media democracy’
Bill Ives at FASTForward Blog: Dean Takahashi at Venture Beat shared with us a summary of a recent Deloitte survey on the state of media. The report concludes that, “We’re living in a media democracy, where no single form of media dominates the attention of Americans. It’s also an age where everyone contributes to the […]
’20 ways to being a bigger Friendfeed monster’
Robert Scoble: 20 ways to being a bigger Friendfeed monster. He writes: Just watch this video where I show you the 20 key features of friendfeed and how to use them to be an aggregating social media monster! Robert’s become a terrific advocate for Friendfeed in the past year. Like Guy Kawasaki, I’m a dabbler, […]
The Best of 2008 in Social Media
From Paul Gillin: The Best of 2008 in Social Media (though the images won’t load for me).