Posted on November 16, 2004 3:51 pm by Shel Holtz | General
“We refuse to accept a future of digital feudalism where we do not actually own the products we buy, but we are merely granted limited uses of them as long as we pay the rent.”
So says the Free Culture Manifesto, a brief document that states the foundations of the Free Culture movement. The open-source movement was started by two Swarthmore students—who also founded the…
Posted on November 16, 2004 8:28 am by Shel Holtz | General
I love Wikipedia. When US Vice President Dick Cheney proclaimed the Bush administration had an agenda based on the record number of votes the president had attracted, it was the Wikipedia that let me explore the number of votes cast for every US president. Thus I was able to determine that challenger John Kerry had also exceeded the highest number…
Posted on November 16, 2004 8:08 am by Shel Holtz | General
Ellen Simonetti has achieved a kind of fame and status in the blogosphere for bing one of the employees fired by their companies for their blogging activities. Formerly known as “The Queen of the Sky,” Simonetti was canned by Delta Air Lines for a couple suggestive photos of her in her flight attendant uniform appearing on her blog. She tells her story,…
Posted on November 15, 2004 10:06 pm by Shel Holtz | General
The e-mail was terse and formal. Just one paragraph announcing that IABC, through its insurance carrier, has reached a settlement in the lawsuit former president Elizabeth Allan brought against the association, one of its members and that member’s company. But it was enough. Delivered to all of the 13,000 IABC members worldwide with e-mail addresses, the message signed by Chairman David…
Posted on November 12, 2004 9:17 am by Shel Holtz | General
Attending BloggerCon III left Online Journalism Review’s Staci Kramer with more questions than answers:
How can bloggers be treated as a community or act collectively and retain individuality? Why do many journalists and bloggers persist in seeing the world through either-or eyes instead of complementing each other? How can the blogging community avoid being pigeonholed based on the highly publicized work of a few…
Posted on November 12, 2004 9:11 am by Shel Holtz | General
Blogs are reinventing impactful content.
I hope—I really hope—you rolled your eyes at that little snippet of corporate jargon. What the hell is impactful content and how does one reinvent it? I’m not sure, but I know how to come up with drivel like this. Visit the Web Economy Bullshit Generator and come up with your own jargon. You might even impress some clueless…
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