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Community Design

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Presentation on community design by Christina Wodtke:

Recommend downloading the Powerpoint slides as some of the text isn’t legible in the Flash conversion.

Community framework:
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Akismet = Life saver

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Akismet stats for the Compete Blog:

Compete Blog Akismet Count

From Akismet’s homepage:

You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.

They’ve nailed it thus far.

Robert Scoble, Twitter, Next Generation of Journalism

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

This blew my mind today.

Robert Scoble was at today’s big Google press conference with Eric Schmidt and tons of other execs, and he (via Twitter) solicited questions – in real time – from his Twitter friends for the Google folks:

Robert Scoble + Twitter

Incredible. I felt like I was really at the press conference and could ask anything, thanks to the Scoble + Twitter conduit. wow.

Update (Robert’s vantage point):

Periodic Table of the Internet

Sunday, June 24th, 2007



via [wellingtongrey.net] – posters, etc also available via cafepress.

Ran into Kevin Spacey randomly on the streets of NYC on Thurs

Saturday, June 9th, 2007