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POPSIs twitter boring you? @davewiner says yes. I've been hearing this quite often lately, so figured i'd clip @davewiner's tweet and ask if others are feeling the same way. personally, i have always found twitter to be a volatile blend of boring and rewarding. my biggest disappointment with twitter is that it's not tapping into people's innate desire to give, but is instead being positioned and treated as a massive "look at me" platform. i think this stems from management's decision to put the focus on a bunch of boring, attention seeking celebrities in their recommended list. that damaged the vibe of the site and overall user experience.
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POPS@davewiner calls out journalists for "not doing the job they say they do" For many years, many have blamed the media for not pushing harder to give citizens of the world a clearer, more in depth look at what's happening - particularly in washington. It is has been said that they have shy'd away from asking the very hard questions and have allowed politicians and corporations to get away with answers that didn't really answer anything. I think Dave Winer makes an important point that perhaps if jounalists did a better job distinguishing themselves and making themselves more necessary, people would feel more reliant on them.
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POPSDave Winer and the way of the Web I'll bet many of you, like me, didn't know the name of the 'man genius' behind many of Web 2.0's great advances - well, here's some of his contributions. His name is Dave Winer and he lives in Berkeley, California
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POPSOld-school journalism + blogging, social networks: synergy? Linked from Dave Winer's blog, I think. A cool, experimental idea: connect beat reporters with an online circle of stakeholders joined by modern net-based social-networking tools. In this scenario, the "new" "Web2.0" model of information distribution doesn't kill old-school journalism but reinvigorates it.
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POPSHow to use Flickr to post images to Twitter Web 2.0 granddaddy Dave Winer is building a service to post Flickr photos to Twitter. If you weren't one of the lucky few to get an invite, here's how to jury-rig a system to do the same thing on your own. (Winer already created Twittergram s, which I clipped earlier. With Twittergrams you can post short mp3s to Twitter. He even provides a phone interface. Extremely, extremely cool.)
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POPSDave Winer: the problem with conferences Dave Winer's reflections on why traditionally-structured conference formats don't seem very productive, and what might work better -- free-form, small-scale conversations among smart people who really care about things.
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POPSPost audio to Twitter by phone Not sure how useful I'll ever find this ... but, hey, it seems cool. "Register" your phone and Twitter account; then, call a number and record a 30-second message. Your audio will be mp3-encoded and a link to it will be posted to your Twitter stream.
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POPSPrint may be dying, but the news is not One of the reasons I read Mathew Ingram's blog is because of the well thought out, intelligent commentary on his selection of topics. In this case, he does a great quick analysis of the current discussion of whether newspapers are dying or not. His point, and a good one, is that the purpose and need of the newspaper companies is still there - but the "paper" part is what will probably go into the dustbin of history. Mathew (again) has inspired my opinions on the topic, which I'm writing and will share on my blog (http://rickmahn.com) by tomorrow. Interesting if you have an opinion on newspapers or not.
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POPSTurning the web into "sushi belts" Article is a tad old but found it interesting when you look at some of the changes that have occurred since this article hit the web. I'm still a little un-savvy when it comes to RSS. So I found the link in this article to "RSS Feeds explained" quite informative.
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POPSBlogs versus the NY Times in Google It will be interesting to see how old media fades out and new media takes over the lead. What if NY times top writers could fund themselves by blogging. Hmm... be hard pressed to imagine the time s could sustain itself. I still think George Orwell was only 20 years off with his 1984. Actually he was probably only 10 years off since the essence of mainstream web (where mere mortals could access info) sort of kicked off around 1994. In any regard this article gives some interesting statistics on what is happening. Someone should do a compare of todays web with Orwells 1984.
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POPSDave Winer responds to Mike Arrington's criticism... Here's the story in a nutshell. Dave Winer, Russell Shaw and Richard MacManus wrote blog posts about Web 2.0 basically being a lot of hype. Mike Arrington, Mr Web 2.0 himself, then wrote a blog post ripping into them for it. The content above is Dave Winer's response...i hope this debate continues as i personally find the "web 2.0" movement to be moving in the wrong direction and becoming more about hype and fraternity than anything. Would love to know what others think.
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POPSInteresting issues facing Wikipedia I think it will be interesting to see how Wikipedia attempt to balance the need for an open forum with the need for truth verification. I'm amazed how well it has worked so far, but as it reaches enormous scale it seems that it will only grow in difficulty.
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