May 30, 2003
"Open Source and the Voluntary Sector"

There’s a good study on Openflows called “Open Source and the Voluntary Sector” that examines how collaboratively-developed software can benefit...

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May 27, 2003
AOL: Interop? What Interop?

Depressingly, it looks like AOL is inching further and further away from allowing other instant-message networks to interoperate with their...

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May 20, 2003
Combining Forums and Weblogs

JournURL is an interesting new offering that provides a new twist on the traditional online discussion forum: your entries are...

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May 15, 2003
South Korea's "Citizen Reporters"

There’s a good story over on SFGate.com about a service in South Korea called “Ohmynews”, which gets its stories from...

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May 14, 2003
Sssh

Answerland is a new venture from Oregon’s public libraries that lets users submit a question, and have it answered by...

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Towards Micropolitics, Part II: Microfinance

Well, this has taken a little longer than I expected, but here it is, the next part of my series...

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May 13, 2003
Ray Ozzie on Social Software

Ray Ozzie, the brains behind Groove Networks, has an interesting perspective on the history behind the growing “social software” movement,...

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May 06, 2003
BBC to Britons: Say "iCan"

Wired News is reporting that the BBC is preparing a new set of online tools to foster grassroots activism among...

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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.