[Here's a bit I've got so far prefacing That Project Provisionally Called a Book.] Say Everything, Scott Rosenberg’s book about “how blogging began, where it’s going, and why it matters,” begins on the morning of September 11, 2001. Along with first-hand witnesses in Manhattan, many other people across the US gravitated online to share their thoughts [...]
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The book project has evolved from the “world-turned-upside-down” concept to a more general, but better-organized, case for blogging — by which I mean any kind of social, citizen-driven media. [Update: Seconds after publishing I realized what a profound understatement that is... I guess I'll just leave it to readers to figure out exactly what it's [...]
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I’m working on trying to select and organize some of my best posts into a book I’ll publish through Lulu. If you have any you like — or stuck in your mind at least — or if you’ve been reading without ever commenting, now’s the time to say something. The working title is “The World Turned [...]
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Yesterday I noticed a couple of announcements for London social media events in the fall: a Twitter 101 TechAlliance Breakfast Club on October 14 starring @billdeys, @ericablonde, and @titusferguson a social media [un]conference for the arts community promoted by @adamcaplan, @titusferguson, and @billdeys (from what I understand at this early stage — let me know if I [...]
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by Brian on 08-10-2009
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When David Armano posted this visual in January I laughed, then wondered where I fit. “Obviously I converted to social media long ago and quickly skipped past zealotry, and self-righteousness to become an evolving believer…” Well, um, looking back it is clear I still had some self-righteous jerkiness to get out of my system and I’m [...]
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Just like last year I’ll be away from blogging for the first part of August. I’ll still be using email and Facebook… I think I might actually use Facebook more than I have before. My brother is getting married on Saturday so this is a perfect time to focus on the more ‘real’ and fundamental, interpersonal [...]
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Another bit of a ramble (I love where it ends up), starting with this Time Q&A: TIME: How difficult was it to chart a history of a massive and diverse thing like blogging? Rosenberg: This is a phenomenon that starts small, then diversifies, then explodes at a certain point. At the small phase, it’s not that [...]
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I’m still posting more or less daily at Open/Conceptual, focusing on some special interest stuff there, but I haven’t been doing much for BrianFrank.ca lately. It’ll probably stay this way for a while. Lately I’ve been looking back at where I’ve come from. I actually forgot how non-blog-like my blogging was a little over a [...]
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This morning I realized I was a little unfair to Glen Pearson in my last post at BrianFrank.ca. I excerpted a bit of his blog as a jumping-off point, but the rest of my post didn’t really have much to do with what he wrote. I kind of left it hanging there as if he didn’t [...]
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These thoughts have been germinating for a while, finally coming together after reading this on Glen Pearson’s blog: I am learning that these people ["from all political stripes" who manage to work together] are looking for a “place,” a way of being that can reflect political differences while at the same time maintaining the deep respect [...]
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by Brian on 07-10-2009
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Felix Salmon posted some great advice about blogging for journalists. All of the points are very good, most of them are familiar, but this — one of his slogans — really stood out for me: “the object of quality in a blog is not the individual blog entry, it’s the blog itself” It reminded me [...]
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Partially inspired by this post at Rockinon, I’m going to go opinion-free for the rest of July. I was working on a follow-up to the Gladwell post, and after several versions I really didn’t like what I was writing, nor did I like myself very much for writing it. And what would blogging be without [...]
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The Best Disinfectant
by OpenConceptual on 07-14-2009
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This morning I realized I was a little unfair to Glen Pearson in my last post at BrianFrank.ca. I excerpted a bit of his blog as a jumping-off point, but the rest of my post didn’t really have much to do with what he wrote. I kind of left it hanging there as if he didn’t [...]
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