Posts from ‘October, 2006’

Floyd Landis, who won the Tour de France bicycle marathon, was charged with doping violations. He’s put up his defense on floydlandis.com, replete with documentation and detail. This is an excellent example of how to use the Web to amplify one’s own case in a complex situation. News coverage of the case has been, by […]

UPDATED Business Week: Wal-Mart’s Jim and Laura: The Real Story. So are Laura and Jim real people? Or part of an elaborate publicity stunt? It turns out they are for real. However, their story, told in full, with certain financial payments disclosed, does not reflect as well on Wal-Mart as perhaps the company would like. […]

Jack Slocum has created a brilliant WordPress comments system using a Yahoo toolset. This is an example of how people are creating impressive new things by linking technologies.

Susan Mernit wonders: Why did Google buy YouTube when they could have bought the New York Times Company? That news got me thinking about what Google mighta coulda bought with their money and didn’t, and I got to asking myself where the paradigm shift was in that. For instance, with that kind of dough, Google […]

The Sunlight Foundation is offering a Transparency Tools Training session today. Ellen Miller, the foundation’s president, advises: To participate in the Transparency Tools Training Webinar on October 11th at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, go to www.infiniteconferencing.com/join, choose ‘participant’ then enter this code: 632518 and you should be able to see what we’re doing. To hear, […]

Placeblogger Originally uploaded by lisa.williams. Thursday, Oct. 12, 7PM Berkman Center for the Internet and Society 23 Everett Street Cambridge, MA Attendees will get the first, prelaunch, look under the hood at a live, under development version of Placeblogger, the site I’m putting together that will be a directory and live aggregator of headlines from […]

It’s gone live: The Yahoo Time Capsule (Flash required) is where you can “share a piece of your online world” in a project that will be created for one month, and then go into storage with the Smithsonian until 2020. I’m planning to contribute.

The Citizen Media Gold Rush is in full fury, with Google’s buyout of YouTube as Exhibit A. YouTube has been a fantastic success, and deserved a big payday. Is it worth $1.6 biilion, though? I doubt it, and I think Google doubts it, too. Consider that Google paid with stock, not cash. Google’s stock looks […]

Doc Searls offers great ideas to newspapers. Most won’t listen.

Jason Calacanis has written a very tough piece about an operation called PayPerPost, a company that has gotten serious venture-capital backing for a “service” in which bloggers are paid to write about products — but are not required to disclose their financial interest. We should generally abhor this kind of marketing. It encourages us to […]