Google, OpenSocial, and Marketing
Google is announcing an open API for social networks. This has been widely reported on all the major tech news sites. It’s a strong, smart play by Google, as it lets them turn any participating site, effectively, into a Google App, and gives them access to index data that hasn’t been available [...]

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I’m always amused when I see someone bill themselves as a thought leader in their field (heck, my own company’s marketing department does it to me), mostly because the term thought leader is a joke. You are either a leader or you are not. It’d be like having a thought quarterback in the NFL, a [...]

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The Revocation of PodCamp Rule Four
In the beginning, there were seven rules of BarCamp.
1st Rule: You do talk/blog about BarCamp. (this later broke into two separate rules)
2nd Rule: If you want to present, you must write your topic and name in a presentation slot.
3rd Rule: Only three word intros.
4th Rule: As many presentations at a [...]

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Initial Thoughts After PodCamp Boston 2
PodCamp Boston 2 is over, and I find myself more optimistic, more energized about the potential of new media than ever before, despite being physically exhausted. I’m proud of what our organizer team pulled together, and deeply grateful to all the volunteers who stepped up and helped out with registration, [...]

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In a few private conversations today, some folks have wondered - what’s the most painful thing you can do to someone in new media? There is the example of the modern day pirates off the coast of Sumatra, who will tie your children to a boat anchor and slowly submerge them, then cut off your [...]

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I’m thrilled to see so many people running with flash mob ideas, like Joseph Jaffe and his new book, Join the Conversation; Joseph’s campaign was called Bum Rush the Amazon Charts, inspired by Scott Sigler and the original Bum Rush the Charts. That said, I want to reiterate something - the inspiration behind, the creator [...]

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“To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish.”
- Yiddish idiom
Julien Smith writes about the implied violence in rap music and real violence:
when this implied (though explicit) violence turns to real violence, we all of a sudden switch from being really impressed to being horrified.
Why?
This is an important question, because there’s a serious disconnect between [...]

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One of my favorite videos, redone by XPLANE, originally by Karl Fisch of Arapahoe High School. Watch it. Think about it. The implications are enormous and potentially devastating or liberating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

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A quick rant about PodCamp co-organizers
Just a quickie, two things I want to get off of my plate.
1. Just because it doesn’t come from Chris Penn or Chris Brogan doesn’t mean you should ignore it.
Chris Brogan and I founded PodCamp, true. However, our co-organizers are every bit as important, if not MORE important, than we [...]

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I must have missed the memo on Google’s new service. I typed in “Buddhist Temple near 01702″ and got some VERY different results than I was looking for.

Clicking on the link gave me this result:

Did I miss the memo? I didn’t see it anywhere on Google Labs.
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