Submitted by Aldon Hynes on April 16, 2005 - 9:36am.
Greg Dennis, of MIT Greens introduces Micah Silfry. Greg spoke briefly about Personal Democracy Forum
Micah started off by talking about about the importance of using new tools, such as http://chat.oc-tech.org. He talks a lot about the importance using chats, even thought they may be distracting.
Hear the story about the two antennas that were married? I heard the wedding was great but the reception was horrible.
Starting point, old groups, like the Knights of Pythias are fading away. The current political structure has been top down. That is changing. JibJab got more hits than Kerry and Bush combined.
The question that comes up on the chat is how do you find good content as everyone else starts getting involved.
Micah talks about the importance of Meetup. It has been effective in bringing new people into politics. He warns about the issue of Digital Divide.
The number of blogs doubling. 30 to 40 thousand new blogs a day. 55% of blogs are active. That's over four million people. Micah showed a great graph of keep points where there have been spikes in blog traffic.
Boingboing and instapundit are the sites that get the most traffic in the blogosphere, as much as BBC. Dailykos comes in third.
Micah, then goes to talk about 'the long tail' and 'the power curve'
Small pieces loosely joined, David Weinberger In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people
TV viewing by kids are declining, while internet usage is climbing.
The root of the word amateur is 'amore', love. Amateurs are people who do things because they love them. People who do something because they love it are going to be much more appealing than some paid hack writing marketting and spin.
'The newsroom has left the building'.
This is the age of transparency. Off the record is now dead.
After being treated like a herd, people want to be heard.
There were more people on the Yahoo Groups for the Dean campaign then the whole Dean Mailing list in Burlington.
Self organizing is here to stay Peer moderation, such as ratings in Scoop or Wikis
TaylorGus in the chat suggested, Non Profit Blog = NoProB
Notes from Micah's talk
Greg Dennis, of MIT Greens introduces Micah Silfry. Greg spoke briefly about Personal Democracy Forum
Micah started off by talking about about the importance of using new tools, such as http://chat.oc-tech.org. He talks a lot about the importance using chats, even thought they may be distracting.
Hear the story about the two antennas that were married? I heard the wedding was great but the reception was horrible.
Starting point, old groups, like the Knights of Pythias are fading away. The current political structure has been top down. That is changing. JibJab got more hits than Kerry and Bush combined.
The question that comes up on the chat is how do you find good content as everyone else starts getting involved.
Micah talks about the importance of Meetup. It has been effective in bringing new people into politics. He warns about the issue of Digital Divide.
The number of blogs doubling. 30 to 40 thousand new blogs a day. 55% of blogs are active. That's over four million people. Micah showed a great graph of keep points where there have been spikes in blog traffic.
Boingboing and instapundit are the sites that get the most traffic in the blogosphere, as much as BBC. Dailykos comes in third.
Micah, then goes to talk about 'the long tail' and 'the power curve'
Small pieces loosely joined, David Weinberger In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people
TV viewing by kids are declining, while internet usage is climbing.
The root of the word amateur is 'amore', love. Amateurs are people who do things because they love them. People who do something because they love it are going to be much more appealing than some paid hack writing marketting and spin.
'The newsroom has left the building'.
This is the age of transparency. Off the record is now dead.
After being treated like a herd, people want to be heard.
There were more people on the Yahoo Groups for the Dean campaign then the whole Dean Mailing list in Burlington.
Self organizing is here to stay Peer moderation, such as ratings in Scoop or Wikis
TaylorGus in the chat suggested, Non Profit Blog = NoProB