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So I’m listening to a new CD right now by a band I absolutely love and I’m enjoying the hell out of it. The thing is, it’s not “out” yet, meaning the band has not officially released the disk to the public. You can pre-order it (which I’ve actually done, BTW), but I still technically [...]

Check out this interview with yours truly on the new local radio show, The Browser. We talk all about “social media” and a bit about VCAM and futurism and democracy and a bunch of other crap. Listen to me bloviate at length at your own risk. Thanks to Jonathan for having me on.

Okay, I admit that the title of this post, while technically relevant to the material I’m about to present, is probably a bit more dramatic than necessary, but I’m hoping to draw some clicks from my Twitter followers and I needed the auto-tweet to sound compelling — and nothing compels the tweeps like some new-media-hating. [...]

The internets are exploding today over news that Facebook has changed it’s Terms of Service to reflect their claim to worldwide, non-exclusive rights to any photos or videos that users upload, even after the users have deleted their FB accounts. IANAL, but this means almost nothing and everyone needs to chill out. First of all, [...]

It’s possible that the recent (annoying) facebook meme where you’re supposed to write 25 random things about yourself, and then “tag” (like with a chain letter) a bunch of your friends to do it too, may be facebook’s shark-jumping moment. Evidence for this can be found today at Time.com in this addle-brained, but possibly prescient [...]

I’m having one of those “whoa” days with new media. It started because not 30 minutes after having a long conversation with a co-worker about the astounding relative safeness of air travel (a conversation that was engendered by this Steven Johnson Boing Boing post), I (ironically) followed the drama of the US Air jet crash [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]