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Kickstarter hides failure - misener.org
If you’re going to use a crowdfunding service like Kickstarter, it’s important to figure out what’s worked for others in the past, but also to figure out what hasn’t worked for others in the past.

If you hide failure, it’s hard to learn from others’ mistakes.
kickstarter  blog  design 
7 days ago by mwfogleman
Avoiding the blogger trap – Marco.org
As more people start realizing that there are better reasons to write blogs beyond trying to squeeze pennies out of ads, I bet we’ll see a significant movement toward tearing down these barriers. We’ll see more complete people blogging their whole lives, not just trying to emulate magazine columns or news sites. Some of them will get large audiences, but most won’t — and it won’t matter.
advice  blog  blogging  online  writing 
december 2011 by mwfogleman
New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education | GOOD
This is where neo-education steps in—not necessarily as a substitute for a university degree, at least not at this point, but as a necessary filler for the many gaps in today’s higher education, an essential exercise in flexing our inherent human curiosity about the world before it atrophies into the narrow scope of skill and vision that the original liberal arts model aimed to eradicate in the first place. In an age driven by the cross-pollination of ideas, viewpoints, and disciplines, it is only through such indiscriminate curiosity and exploration that we can truly liberalize our collective future.
education  web2.0  academia  thought  ted  technology  ideas  university  activism  internet  society  liberalarts  liberal  teaching  culture  blog  socialmedia  web  autodidactism  autodidactism2010 
november 2009 by mwfogleman
SourceWatch - SourceWatch
Welcome to SourceWatch—your guide to the names behind the news. SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. A primary purpose of SourceWatch is documenting the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and public relations professionals engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. SourceWatch also includes profiles on think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. Over time, SourceWatch has broadened to include others involved in public debates including media outlets, journalists, government agencies, activists and nongovernmental organizations. Unlike some other wikis, SourceWatch has a policy of strict referencing, and is overseen by a paid editor.
politics  reference  culture  tools  business  blog  web2.0  news  wiki  activism  research  economics  media  government  journalism  propaganda  watchdog  sourcewatch  progressive  democracy  information  blogs  policy  resources  analysis  alternative  search  database  pr 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Doug Feaver - Listening to the Dot-Comments - washingtonpost.com
I am writing in defense of the anonymous, unmoderated, often appallingly inaccurate, sometimes profane, frequently off point and occasionally racist reader comments that washingtonpost.com allows to be published at the end of articles and blogs.
blog  media  california  moderation  profanity  2009  blogging  journalism  blogs  censorship  socialmedia  newspapers  opinion  anonymous  anonymity  comments  newspaper 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
How to Craft Your Personal Business Model - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog
Making these decisions can be overwhelming–even if you’re a veteran. This past January, for the second time in my career, I abandoned a comfy full-time gig and jumped whole hog into a completely open calendar. Coming up on my last day as an employee, I couldn’t wait to be free again. I felt like queen of the world: I had potential clients offering me paid work, volunteer opportunities to dive into, a long list of new skills and technologies I couldn’t wait to teach myself, and a calendar full of free time. It felt great.
Then I spent my first day as a freelancer wrapped in a blanket, wide-eyed and paralyzed, wondering what in the world I’d gotten myself into. That didn’t feel great.
It was time to do some soul-searching. I picked up a notebook and pen and got to teasing out a bigger vision that would help me make sense of the smaller decisions. I was crafting my personal business model.
article  ginatrapani  business  branding  tutorial  businessmodel  blog  inspiration  freelance  webdesign  career  organization  advice  personal  best  strategy  freelancing  startups  designer 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
A Whole Lotta Nothing: This is how Social Media really works
So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products, hire people that represent the company well, and when your stuff is so awesome that friends share it with other friends, you may not even need "social media marketing" after all.
howto  blogs  wordofmouth  matthaughey  quotes  tips  culture  socialnetworking  article  business  socialmedia  twitter  strategy  pr  web2.0  media  social  advice  marketing  blogging  online  advertising  blog  web 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies - WSJ.com
Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials.

The spies came from China, Russia and other countries, these officials said, and were believed to be on a mission to navigate the U.S. electrical system and its controls. The intruders haven't sought to damage the power grid or other key infrastructure, but officials warned they could try during a crisis or war.

"The Chinese have attempted to map our infrastructure, such as the electrical grid," said a senior intelligence official. "So have the Russians."

The espionage appeared pervasive across the U.S. and doesn't target a particular company or region, said a former Department of Homeland Security official. "There are intrusions, and they are growing," the former official said, referring to electrical systems. "There were a lot last year."
cybersecurity  espionage  spy  cyberattack  cyber  cyberwarfare  cyberwar  wsj  grid  infrastructure  apocalypse  russia  electricity  networks  politics  technology  blog  news  security  usa  war  tech  hacking  energy  computing  us  policy  terrorism  cia  china  collapse 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Five Technologies Tim O'Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0 - ReadWriteWeb
Tim O'Reilly, co-founder of the Web 2.0 Conference, gave a short address on the 5th anniversary of that event at tonight's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and offered some thoughts on what's going to come next. He discussed five applications that he believes point the way.

Two themes stood out: sensors will surpass humans in front of their keyboards as the primary data source on the web and Moore's Law will need to be applied to humanity's greatest problems.

It's time for the Web to get smarter, O'Reilly said. Having just become a grandfather, he drew a parallel between the evolution of the web and human development. The early days of search engines were like a child just putting things in its mouth, wondering what they are. Now the web is starting to use all of its senses together to do do something with the information it has access too. Here's where he's seeing that happen.
software  technology  semantic  app  ibm  web3.0  blog  article  web  readwriteweb  google  web2.0  cisco  commentary  future  tech  webapps  trends  innovation  iphone  application 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Daring Fireball: Complex
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”
software  startup  evolution  technology  apple  daringfireball  design  architecture  business  read  article  strategy  blog  platform  development  simple  simplicity  agile  ideas  usability  2009  ui  iphone  ipod  complexity 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
How to stop the drug wars | The Economist
A calculated gamble, or another century of failure?
This newspaper first argued for legalisation 20 years ago (see article). Reviewing the evidence again (see article), prohibition seems even more harmful, especially for the poor and weak of the world. Legalisation would not drive gangsters completely out of drugs; as with alcohol and cigarettes, there would be taxes to avoid and rules to subvert. Nor would it automatically cure failed states like Afghanistan. Our solution is a messy one; but a century of manifest failure argues for trying it.
prohibition  drugwar  drug  legalization  drugs  2009  economist  policy  opinion  law  war  government  blog  security 
march 2009 by mwfogleman
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