July 2010
Best Of: Fake Wikileaks Leaks
Last night I tweeted some fake Wikileaks leaks. Here’s a summary: BREAKING: Wikileaks to leak bad advice during a Public Service Announcement. BREAKING: Wikileaks to leak the truth behind Santa in a special “Children’s Edition.” BREAKING: Wikileaks to leak the end of the infamous “Man from Nantucket” riddle. BREAKING: Wikileaks to leak...
Government 2.0, Phase 3: Stable Solutions
I’ve written before about the three phases of open government, or government 2.0 - Surprises, Experiments, and Solutions. Basically, from about 2007-8, open government had a lot to do with “surprises,” being surprised that blogging was useful, or using Twitter was okay. From about 2009-10, the area moved to a phase of experiments, in which it was okay to experiment with new...
Government 2.0: The Newest Reality of New Media
New media has knocked on the doors of the White House and the rest of the U.S. government twice in the last week or so, but it looks like no one is answering (so to speak). First, a partial two minute 45 second video of USDA political appointee Shirley Sherrod giving an NAACP speech was posted by influential blogger (Who some people in the media still claimed not to know? Please. He’s...
Online Priorities: Blog Traffic vs. Community...
As I get ready to launch a new website, I’ve been thinking about what my priorities are with it, and how to measure if I’m accomplishing what I want to accomplish. And so, one issue I’ve been thinking about is whether measuring things like blog hits or unique visitors or time spent on site is important (regardless of community), or if providing value to a community of people I...
Entrepreneurial Lessons From Investor Michael...
Few people saw the gigantic housing/financial crisis coming, but independent investor Michael Burry did - back in 2005. Terrific author Michael Lewis (Liar’s Poker and others) has an excerpt from his new book The Big Short in a recent issue of Vanity Fair, called Betting on the Blind Side (double meaning, gotta read it) which is very interesting in itself. But I took a few lessons from it...
