6 Questions For Our Social Networked Globe

By On August 25, 2010 · 2 Comments

Paul Hawken asks 6 great questions in his book “Blessed Unrest”.

“At what point in the future will the existence of 2 million, 3 million, or even 5 million citizen-led organizations shift our awareness to the possibility that we will have fundamentally changed the way human beings govern and organize themselves on earth? What [...]

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Civic Social Media – Fixcity.org PARK(ing) Day Video

By On January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

“We now have all these powerful social technologies that instead of using them for entertainment purposes we can use them for civic purposes.”

Been thinking about my product design work on mass collaboration and ongoing sustainability of peoples’ participation. The short video below on PARK(ing) Day includes nice shots of the fixcity.org site [...]

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Follow… Me – Nationalism Diminishes In The Global Human Net

By On August 12, 2009 · 2 Comments

Tim O’Reilly said the following about Obama’s use of social media in a recent Q&A on one of IBM’s business marketing sites.

“Clearly there are some new channels for outreach and new channels for listening to what people are telling you. Barack Obama built a really effective platform with mybarackobama.com—and it is really important [...]

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The Blog Post to Tweet Ratio

By On December 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Wondering why I have so few posts here? My blog to microblog posting ratio in this current era is about, um, 1 to 890 at the moment. I’m totally okay with this.

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Twittering led me to blog again

By On May 14, 2008 · 3 Comments

The quote below pretty much sums up why I’m blogging again, actually not so much wanting more space than Twitter allows in terms of some topics for me, but about my move to study more of what I do, to develop a deeper cultural understanding of the social web, now that the scale is there.

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