March 28, 2003
Your Book Review Is Due

blam! is an interesting project to collaboratively build a database of book (and movie, and CD) reviews.  You provide the...

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March 26, 2003
Microjournalism "Straight From the Sandbox"

Want a first-hand perspective on the war in Iraq?  Several American soldiers (and an Iraqi) are ready to give it...

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Pulling Together Distributed Journalism

Technorati has created a Google News for the blogsphere with its new Breaking News service, keeping track in real time...

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March 14, 2003
Dance Dance (Tech) Revolution

Looks like the MIT Media Lab is working on something interesting — cheap networked sensors to allow dancers to actually...

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March 13, 2003
Dee Hock on Emergent Democracy

More on the “emergent democracy” meme… Dee Hock, the founder of Visa and a leading thinker in the “chaordics” movement,...

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March 12, 2003
Towards Micropolitics, Part I: Microjournalism

Joichi Ito’s paper on emergent democracy, along with some other recent developments, have gotten me thinking about whether we’re ever...

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March 05, 2003
It's All in the Details

Joel Spolsky has posted an interesting essay, ““Building Communities with Software”, that explores how tiny design decisions in the underlying...

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Obligatory Disclaimer

If you think anything I write here represents the opinions of anybody but myself, you need more help than I can give you. The opinions are all mine, folks. Nobody else's. ESPECIALLY not my employer's.

If that's too hard to understand... well, I'm sorry. There's only so much I can do. I'm not a therapist, and I'm not a miracle worker. (Unless you consider staying employed in this economy a miracle.) I wish I could help you work through your delusional belief that I'm speaking for anyone else but myself. Honestly, I do. But in the end, that's a monkey you'll have to get off your back on your own. Sorry.