My latest at HuffPost- Romney: The Quantum Candidate
- It Wasn't Just the "Pressures of Fame" That Killed Whitney Houston (or Amy Winehouse, or Michael Jackson, or Heath Ledger...)
- How Viral Works: Tracing the Take-off of Erato's "Call Your Girlfriend"
- The "Gridlock" Story: Why Media Balance Is Broken
- Obama Can Win by Being Bipartisan and Bold
- Behind Michele Bachmann's Twisted History: The Fear of Complexity
- My latest at O’Reilly Media
Category Archives: The Web
The Desert Mothers release “Nowhere Motel”
My new band The Desert Mothers has a new release, “Nowhere Motel”, which I’m really excited about – give it a listen.Dieselbe Farbe 10 und Bube gegen verschiedene Farben Bube und König – Wenn es keine Flush Straf-Karte gibt, dann … Continue reading
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Wonkosphere: Political Reputation – or at Least Buzz – Management
It’s early days, but just like the record industry, American democracy is being taken apart and rebuilt by digital technology and the web. Several trends are converging to make this possible and, I think, inevitable. All are characterized by the … Continue reading
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More Political Reputation-Management: The Truth-o-Meter
Following my recent post about a color-coded reputation management system* for politicians (indicating their truthfulness by the color used to display their names on web pages), I came across Politifact and its Truth-o-Meter. Politifact is a project of the St. … Continue reading
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Proposal: A Politicians’ Reputation Management System
News of computer scientist Luca de Alfaro’s Wikipedia trust-coloring system revived – and improved – an idea I’ve been playing with: automated reputation-management for politicians. The idea is to make the concept of honor meaningful again, by creating new social … Continue reading
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Follow the Risk: Amateur Journalism & Democracy
Adapted from a reply on John Jarvis’ Buzz Machine blog: The Internet and cheap digital tools allow crowd-sourcing of news by amateurs, not just because the technology makes production and distribution fast, easy and cheap, but also because it diffuses … Continue reading
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The News Business Is Broken in the Digital Age – If You’re an “ee”, Not If You’re an “er”
Via Tim O’Reilly’s blog I come across San Francisco Chronicle publisher Phil Bronstein, predicting layoffs and saying the news business “is broken, and no one knows how to fix it… And if any other paper says they do, they’re lying.” … Continue reading
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When A Pointless Flash Animation Is Just Right
We’re all familiar with pointless Flash animations that serve only as barriers to getting to useful web content. But I recently stumbled across an instructive exampe of a “pointless” Flash animation that works. It’s on the web site of the … Continue reading
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Digital Politics: An Interview With CivicSpace Founder Zack Rosen
Also on my O’Reilly blog: We may have the seductiveness of the amazon.com shopping cart to thank for CivicSpace, an enhanced content management system (CMS) that has spawned many of the leading political web sites, starting with that of the … Continue reading
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Digital Politics
From my O’Reilly blog: I’ve been doing more and more work in politics since the ’04 election (communications consulting and web production). I got involved at first out of a sense of civic obligation–and because my wife told me to … Continue reading
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My Tips From An E-Musician Article On Podcasting
Electronic Musican recently ran a comprehensive article on podcasting, written by David Battino. It includes some tips from me. A lot of what has stuck with me about communication over the years I first learned as a freelance writer-broadcaster for … Continue reading
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