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FriendFeed is a new(ish) web service that aggregates all of your social media activities in one convenient place for people to follow. It’s like bloglines but instead of just subscribing to RSS feeds, you can also follow people’s twitter, flickr, YouTube, Amazon, Google Talk and Facebook activities (and a bunch of other stuff) all at [...]

Don’t you hate it when people say that this time of year? Me too. Emily and I are going on a little holiday visit with family in the Simmon homeland for New Year’s. We will be drinking and playing music and Mafia and generally relaxing like hell. My uncle’s house in teh swank, but his [...]

We continue our trip down Candleblog lane, looking at May – August, 2008… 5/21/08: Bill on Blogging part 1: Spitballs From the Bushes – In May I was invited to address the Burlington Free Press newsroom and talk about blogging. I turned the presentation into a series of posts based on my notes for the [...]

For some reason, today is all about reading articles about digital culture. These are all worth your time (well, maybe just skim the Salon piece) and will perhaps engender some discussion in the comments? Lawrence Lessig argues in Newsweek that the FCC should be dismantled and replaced with something that actually promotes innovation in technology [...]

Over the next week we’ll be taking a look back at some of the highlights from Candleblog in 2008. Here are a few gems from January to April… 1/8/08: Why “Uncle Mike” scares the hell out of me – We knew Huckabee winning the GOP nomination was a long shot, despite his win in the [...]

My peeps at The Contrarian Media empire have got themselves some new digs, courtesy of Contrarian resident tubes-nerd and Kate Bush fan, Tanner McCuin. Tanner fashioned Casey and the boys (we seriously need some gender equity over there) a fancy new blog using WordPress, thus shedding the last vestiges of the old Solid State paradigm [...]

Lots of folks have been making some great recommendations to the Obama transition team via their transition website, change.gov. Lawrence Lessig and a cabal of Internet Big Thinkers suggested some Principals for an Open Transition, public.resource.org has Five Suggestions for Change, and loads of people have been leaving comments and applying for jobs and in [...]

I want to to take a minute and point out a couple of cases of traditional media embracing social media in Vermont. First of all, VCAM has entered the social media realm more forcefully lately. Spear-headed by my co-worker Seth, VCAM now has a growing Facebook presence (and group) and a twitter account to go [...]

Tuesday is coming! Once you’ve done your civic duty and voted, you’ll no doubt be glued to various media outlets and awaiting some results. Those of you in Vermont may wish to keep a Firefox tab open to channel17.org, where all kinds of Vermont-centric election coverage will be going on. Along with the cable access [...]

I have just submitted my first post to The Contrarian — the blog run by The Contrarian Media Group, which in turn is run by musician, writer, music policy wonk and former Vermonter, Casey Rae-Hunter. The Contrarian used to be Casey’s personal blog, but recently he’s been expanding the ranks of authors there and even [...]