Wow, it’s been a week since I posted here. I have some thoughts I’d like to write about, but I don’t have time. I want to keep posting here, but am having a hard time doing so when I’m writing a lot on two other blogs.
Folks who stop by here should check out my long interview with international digital divide fighter and super video blogger Andy Carvin over at Net Squared.
So I’m exploring a very new work routine this week, having just begun blogging at the Social Software Blog of Weblogs Inc. The idea over there is to write lots of shorter posts, and the short part is a real challenge for me so far. I do want to continue blogging here as well, but we’ll see what that ends up looking like.
Since the last time I posted here I’ve made the following posts over there, all of which may be of interest to readers of this blog.
I do intend to keep writing here for purposes other than just pointing to posts elsewhere, but we’ll see how it all shakes out!
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Microsoft super blogger Robert Scoble did a short email interview over at Net Squared and one of the questions he was asked was whether Web 2.0 is hype or for real. Part of his response included the following:
Yes, there’s a bit of hype there, but there’s also a trend that you can’t escape. More and more people are using the Web everyday and for more stuff. We’re now even able to see when our next bus will arrive in Seattle using a Web browser. Is there something unique? Yeah, the bandwidth has gotten better, the browsers with the latest technologies have gotten much more ubiquitous…
I agree that there is some hype (imagine the mockery if I didn’t!) But I think there are major indications that Web 2.0 is a real cultural change underway.
What are my favorite examples of this? The fact that RSS feeds are now available from most major online news sources and search engines is one. The fact that Yahoo has bought Flickr, Del.ico.us and Upcoming.org all in the last year or so is another. (I’m not necesarily thrilled about these acquisitions, but I think they are demonstration of the reality of Web 2.0) The fact that the number of blogs coming online is absolutely exploding and that this is occurring in a number of different contexts. My three favorite examples of late demonstrating the applicability of blogging in a variety of contexts? SciencBlogs.com (a network of science blogs), Blogging for a Cause (cancer support and networking blog) and Blue Fox Farm (a small organic farm and CSA that blogs).
What evidence do you have or is your favorite that Web 2.0 is not just hype? Plus don’t forget to check out the rest of the Scoble interview.
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I just posted an interview with Barb Dybwad over at Net Squared. Barb is the associate editor of Weblogs Inc. and blogs on the Social Software Weblog there. We had a long conversation about everything from Flickr to future applications she’s dreaming of to tips for new bloggers and blog readers. It’s such a long interview (done via IM) that I created a tag cloud to let readers skip around. The larger the text, the more accessible/less technical the section of the interview.
Huge thanks to Barb for taking the time to this interview.
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Let me know how those stationary links on the sides of my blog look in a new version of IE, will you? They look great (I think) in Firefox, terrible in Safari (eek) and kinda wacky in old Mac version of IE. They should be stationary just off the bottom and side on the left and the right. Maybe somebody will proper CSS knowledge will give me a hand with it.
Is there somebody out there that can help me figure something out about audio file conversion. Here’s the things I’m dealing with:
1. Gizmo Project records in .WAV format
2. I have a Mac
3. Audacity works fine until I try to export to mp3 and then all versions I’ve found of LameLib crash the program with an error mssg.
4. Drag and drop into Garage Band sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks, who I have not interviewed.
5. I cannot find any WAV to MP3 conversion software online for Mac that works.
I’ll bet some body out there can help me figure this out. If so, please send me an email at emailmarshall@gmail.com and I’ll get back to you after New Years.
Speaking of which have a good one. And my partner Mikalina sends her regards.
UPDATE: Woo hoo! I think I figured out how to do it! The Gizmo Project forums contained advice to use iTunes to convert to MP3, and I downloaded Cacophony to do the editing with instead of Audacity. I’ll have to see how awesome that is, but it sure looks like it works. Without converting the file to any obscure formats, most importantly! Yay!
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I know you’re out there, you readers intrigued by new web tools and how they can be used for social change! Well my wonderful coworkers at Tech Soup’s Net 2 are looking for a hand or two in profiling some really exciting non-profit groups using tools like blogs, RSS, Drupal, etc. You’ve got half an hour to do a good deed!
According to volunteer coordinater Britt Bravo, “Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes. Just register on the Net Squared site, log in, go to the “Put Your Voice in the Mix” page, http://www.netsquared.org/participate/put-your-voice-in-the-mix ,
click on “submit your case study” and fill out the form.”
Britt has a long list of groups that could be profiled, or you can find them yourself. You can get ahold of Britt via bbravo@techsoup.org. Don’t be shy about profiling your own group, either!
This is just one of many opportunities for folks to help leverage Web2.0 for the betterment of the world. Check out http://www.netsquared.org/participate/be-netsquared-builder for more info on what can be done besides profile writing.
Here’s some of the most recent groups that have been profiled:
Here’s a link to the full list of profiled groups so far. It’s pretty inspiring!
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