http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger Let's just see what happens Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:20:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ethan is once again knowledgeable and provocative, this time about what it takes for a coup to get some attention in this country. He compares the media's interest in Honduras' institutional coup (as a guy called it last night on The News Hour) with the almost complete ignoring of ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/07/03/coup-coup-catch-you/ Yup. Pretty damn creepy.[Tags: marketing advertising ] http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/07/03/15-creepiest-vintage-ads/ a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/">Jeff Jarvis led a discussion at PDF among 1,000 people about what government could learn from Google, and, more generally, what a bunch of techies would do to make government better. Jeff's got this rare cross of skills as a writer, teacher, entertainer and provoker. If you haven't seen ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/07/02/the-government-is-the-new-google/ PDF was an unusually rich conference. Great folks there and an especially good year to be talking about the effect of the Net on politics and governance. My take-away (although having a single take-away from a conference I just said is rich is rather contradictory, don't you think?): The Web ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/07/01/pdf-the-takeway/ These photos of bubbles bursting may be old (or not), but I just stumbled across them, and they're pretty amazing.[Tags: bubbles ] http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/07/01/bubble-bursting-photos/ Steve Myers at Poynter has a good story about NPR's crowd-sourcing Dollar Politics project. One element of it was a request for help identifying 200 people who attended a Senate hearing, some percentage of whom were lobbyists.[Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous media crowdsourcing npr ] http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/07/01/crowd-sourcing-photos/ NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people's ideas and words. You are warned, people. Frank Rich: Yes. But someone is going to have figure out how to pay for it. I suspect ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/06/30/pdf09-has-the-net-helped-journalism/ Mark Pesce is talking about the new global power. [I didn't liveblog Michael Wesch's talk because it was too hard to. It's was close to his popular YouTube lecture about YouTube. He got and deserved a standing ovation.] NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/06/30/pdf09-mark-pesce-on-global-politics-in-the-hyperconnected-universe/ NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people's ideas and words. You are warned, people. Alec Ross is the Innovation Advisor to Hillary Clinton. He's bringing Net tools, esp. social media, to ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/06/30/pdf09-alec-ross-21st-century-statecraft/ NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people's ideas and words. You are warned, people. Ellen Miller, founder of The Sunlight Foundation, says that after this morning's sessions at PDF (Vivek Kundra's ... http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/06/30/pdf09-sunlight-foundation-announcement/