It’s very hot here. There are lots of people, but I’m having a hard time connecting with specific folks because the name tags are very small and the affiliations are even smaller.

I had lunch with some people from the Yahoo Publishers’ Network, thought they were going to be super corporate but actually felt great about them as people!

Getting to see quite a few web friends face to face and that’s been great.

Sorry I can’t say anything more interesting, I’ll write up a report back later. Thanks for stopping by my blog! I promise that this is the least helpful post here, all the others are better.

You’ve got to check out this blog entry from CoolCatTeacher. Vicki Davis is a mind blower.

“I have been challenging my ninth grade about what the web 2.0 will mean to their future…”

Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:
elearning, Web2.0, education, youth, adoption

Quick links to a few posts I’ve made elsewhere recently that I think are particularly interesting:

• Interview with Michael Grubb, CTO of LookSmart, about Furl.net (social bookmarking) and vertical search
• Interview with Lisa Williams about high-powered research and setting up a good community blog
• Interview with Dan Haig, who set up the exiled Tibetan government’s internet system
• World Public Opinion delivered by RSS
• Reputation tracking resources
• When pitched bloggers go bad: Walmart and the blogosphere

One of the basic steps in setting up a blog that makes the most of the medium is getting an account with Feedburner.com. No matter what blogging platform you use to write your blog, there are good reasons why you should use Feedburner. Below are some reasons why, followed by some steps on how to use the service.

First: What is Feedburner?

The simplest answer to this question is that Feedburner republishes your RSS blog’s RSS feed (or any RSS feed for that matter) to make it much friendlier, more powerful and more useful.

What am I going to get out of this?
Continue reading →

Via Treehugger.com

Just found out that I’m going to be able to attend the South by Southwest Interactive event in Austin next weekend. Some face to face time with web-friends sure sounds like fun. I’ll also be doing some interviews for Net Squared.

I’ll also be at NTEN’s Non Profit Technology Conference in Seattle later this month. Just thought I’d let you know. Pretty exciting stuff. I feel pretty lucky to be able to afford this kind of conference hopping right now, so if you’re at either of these make sure to look me up before the winds of fortune change and I’m stuck in my bedroom working in my pajamas again.

The following is an email that bounced back after being sent to ForImmediatRelease PR podcast. Your thoughts on the topic before I try resending? I’d like to know what folks in the non profit world think too.

Re the idea of omitting any mention of new web tools by name in favor
of simply saying to some one in need “here’s a solution for you” –
I’d like to hear more Web 2.0 voices on the question. I am working
right now for two organizations and both make mention of Web 2.0
immediately in their names, Net Squared ( http://netsquared.org
bringing Web 2.0 to non profit organizations) and Weblogs Inc. (Social
Software blog). In both of these capacities, Web 2.0 evangelism is my
top priority and thus usability/ accessibility, etc. – but I introduce
them by name.

I do discuss Web 2.0 tools by name when I propose them to clients
(“you need a blog, you need to read RSS feeds”) but I won’t claim to
know the answer to this question. What does boss man Jason Calacanis
think of this? What do the guys on the Gilmor Gang think? What do the
folks at Web 2.0 Work Group think of it? Very important – what do the
folks at Blogher.org think? Presumably there are infiltrators in old
school media – how do they respond to this question?

My quick stab at it: the changes underway are so drastic, and so
characterized by an emphasis on open communication that people need to
be told relatively early in their process of adoption that they are
joining an emerging world that is made of different stuff. There are
enough anemic blogs out there, the LA Times wiki editorial was so half
hearted, etc. that people really need to grok what’s going on and what
the new tech means functionally and politically. If they’re not told
quickly, the landscape around these new tools is likely to get far
more ugly than it is today.

But I’d like to see this conversation extended. I know that the point
is important that many technologies now widely used were discounted at
first, but I’m not sure that ignorant bliss is the best solution.

Thanks,
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Tech Soup’s Net Squared and WINC Social Software Blog