April 2010
Governments and Citizens: You Don't Own Your...
Just finished video blogging about this for GovFresh.com but I felt this warrented a written blog too. Almost a year ago I wrote a blog post about plagarism and microblogging that no one really seemed to take seriously. The point of it was that it wasn’t really clear what “plagarism” means when content is one sentence, or 12 seconds, long. If I retweet you but change one word,...
My Thoughts on Geoff Livingston's "Retirement"...
In a post today on his blog The Buzz Bin, blogger and PR/non-profit communications guru [and buddy] Geoff Livingston announced in a post called Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow that he would retire his contributions, and only guest post on occasion at Mashable.com and some other places, in line with his new passions. I completely understand this. When I used to write journal articles for scientific...
Pre-boarding: A Novel Use of FourSquare
Last week, Robert Scoble wrote a great post about “malleable social graphs” and more broadly about the many different possible uses of location-based services like FourSquare and Gowalla (and more broadly, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and other Web 2.0 sites taking advantage of geo-tagging). This got me thinking about notions of “checking in” to a crime in progress - a...
