Archive for the 'participatory media' Category

Yahoo! Shine…. already shining with user-created blog posts

April 2nd, 2008

Wow. Yahoo! launched their new women’s property, Shine yesterday. I have to say, while I’m not the right gender for their target audience, I really like what they’ve done.
Here’s what stands out for me: integrated email and user blogs. (Click the graphic for a larger image. I’ve outlined the […]

expelled from expelled

March 22nd, 2008

Evolutionary biologist expelled from a creationist movie showing. The movie’s title… “Expelled.”
Myers’ and Dawkins’ interview is really funny:

Richard Dawkins best line (imho):
“What astonishes me about this, it’s an incredible piece of inept public relations to expel somebody not just from any film, but from a film about expelling people for their beliefs… […]

Thrilling post about Thingfo

February 5th, 2008

First, Kristen Nicole from Mashable checked out Thingfo and wrote a thoughtful review.
Then this morning I saw this Twitter:
Thanks, ontask.

information revolution

October 22nd, 2007

who would’ve thought that tags could be so cool

h/t TechCrunch

Al Gore using his Current TV site to post short videos on key issues

October 15th, 2007

Al Gore just posted 3 nice, short, clear videos on key issues. Love to see that he’s “eating his own dog food” as we say, by using his own site to post these videos and start a conversation.

I do wish that Current vids had embed codes (do they, and I just can’t find them??).
Hopefully […]

Kucinich on people-powered politics and the blogosphere

October 7th, 2007

Kucinich and his wife talk about the blogosphere, and how the people actually have power, they just need to realize it.

The blogosphere has provided so much meaningful coverage and criticism of the Bush administration, while the corporate press and Establishment Washington has lined up to defend Bush and Cheney.
Funny how the truth can effect […]