As I was driving into the Lijit offices, I was thinking about this years SXSW conference, and how different it would be for me. I was thinking about the posts I had read from friends who were going and had gone before. The difference for me this year will be striking (speaking vs. not-speaking, know...

As much as the internet has fueled innovation through the free exchange of ideas and collaboration with anyone across the globe, are we also remaking a market economy that only benefits those on top who control the mass lines of distribution? Wired considers the pitfalls of crowdsourcing - a phenome...

The funeral dirge for newspapers continued as the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News published its final edition last Friday. The casualty list is sure to grow. The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz summed up the dire signals in his State of the News story today: "Newspapers are killing sections and...

MyMuesli hat nicht ganz so erfreuliche Post erhalten, weil einige ihrer Produkte Bezeichnungen haben, auf die sich ein anderes Unternehmen die Rechte gesichert hat. Das Team von MyMuesli kam letztlich zu folgender Entscheidung: Das ist wie gesagt schon ein paar Wochen her – und wir sind zu dem Ents...

Just before New Years, I was contacted by Amanda Rose (@amanda) who was wondering if I could put out a call on Twitter for any volunteers to help put on a Twestival for DC. Here's what it's all about. On February 12, more than 175 cities around the globe will host a Tweetup party, with all proceeds ...

Bedrijven, van groot tot klein, zijn nu toch echt aan de beurt om een Twitter account aan te maken. Al was het alleen maar om te voorkomen dat de bloggers van Hyped.nl het account zullen kapen. Want Twitter breekt door en begint nu echt razend populair te worden. Afgelopen woensdag gaf EenVandaag ee...

A lurker sends me an email from a friend of his, a Presbyterian “with Lutheran sympathies” who was sharing some thoughts as to whether the Westminster Confession of Faith really denies what Lutheranism affirms concerning the Lord’s Supper. He looks at how the WCF and Lutheran confe...

The people formerly known as the audience ( TPFKATA ) are doing more than just fact-checking newspaper stories, time-shifting TV shows and capturing breaking news on their cameraphones. They are also helping run their favorite bands, designing and voting on concert T-shirts, mixing studio albums and...

Music and fashion have long provided people with important means of self-expression.  A new company called i/denti/tee , conceived and launched by non-traditional-agency-like-object Anomoly, aims to aims to monetize the space where music and fashion meet.  I like their model, which sits at the int...

The always excellent Jason Kottke has a post up that got me thinking about the “broken windows” theory and how it applies to online communities. The theory — articulated in this piece from The Atlantic in 1982 — states that crime and bad behaviour of various kinds tends to pr...