Politics: The role of the Campaign Hub Weblog. What is the role of a campaign hub weblog in an online campaign? The simple answer is that it should serve as a source of reliable information on the campaign's activities. The more important answer is that it should serve as a way for supporters find each other. In… Continue reading Politics: The role of the Campaign Hub Weblog
Month: January 2004
Politics: Small-world Phenomena and the Dean Campaign II
Politics: Small-world Phenomena and the Dean Campaign II. The difficulty in building a political network like Dean is that it is extremely difficult to manufacture small-world dynamics. The weak links derived from weblogs and other forms of social technology are made via intentional actions by the network's participants. They can't be forced or planned. They also are… Continue reading Politics: Small-world Phenomena and the Dean Campaign II
Politics: Small-world Phenomena and the Dean Campaign
Politics: Small-world Phenomena and the Dean Campaign. The Dean campaign is reliant on small-world dynamics for its power. The cross connections of egalitarian weak links of Deanie weblogs and the aristocratic Dean hub weblog serve to amplify good or positive information moving through the system. Of course, this can cut the other way too. Bad or negative information can… Continue reading Politics: Small-world Phenomena and the Dean Campaign
San Diego on Wireless Cutting Edge
San Diego on Wireless Cutting Edge. San Diego is a hub for wireless companies and businesses there tend to be innovators in using wireless technologies: This piece looks at how one real estate agent uses Verizon's high-speed mobile network and how a handful of businesses use Wi-Fi networks. One interesting Wi-Fi application is at One… Continue reading San Diego on Wireless Cutting Edge
Ten Steps for Cleaning Up Information Pollution
Useit.Com: Ten Steps for Cleaning Up Information Pollution. All time-management courses boil down to one basic piece of advice: set priorities and allocate the bulk of your time to tasks that are crucial to meeting your goals. Minimize interruptions and spend big chunks of your time in productive and creative activity. [Tomalak's Realm]
On Piracy, Part II
On Piracy, Part II. Looks like my rant about software piracy has generated some thoughtful feedback, some of which is listed in the post's trackbacks. My apologies for not enabling comments for these posts, but unfortunately a recent flood of comment spam has made comments impossible for me to manage. One thing mentioned in several… Continue reading On Piracy, Part II
On Piracy
On Piracy. Many people who use pirated products justify it by claiming they're only stealing from rich mega-corporations that screw their customers, but this conveniently overlooks the fact that the people who are hurt the most by piracy are people like me. Shareware developers are losing enormous amounts of money to piracy, and we're mostly… Continue reading On Piracy
Beyond Google: Narrow the Search
Beyond Google: Narrow the Search. Too much information, no matter how fast it appears, may muddy the results of Internet searches. New technologies for mining the Web attempt to make the quest more efficient. [Wired News]
Configuring the Outlook 2003 RPC over HTTPS Client
Configuring the Outlook 2003 RPC over HTTPS Client. Tom Shinder's been busy writing some new guides on RPC over HTTPS publishing . His latest piece explains how to configure Outlook 2003 to use RPC over HTTPS, with the article also containing links to the other four tutorials that he's recently written. [MS Exchange Blog]
BitTorrent + RSS = TiVo
BitTorrent + RSS = TiVo. A great idea over at ScottRaymond.net is the combination of two technologies that would enable him to keep up on TV programs he likes, without needing to even own a TV. BitTorrent allows you to share the downloading of large files with thousands of other people that have the file… Continue reading BitTorrent + RSS = TiVo