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It Takes All Kinds – But will we choose them?

October 12, 2009

In a local community you also need all types. Perhaps not as simply denotes as intellectuals and doers and those who combine both, but in a community you have people with different interests and different focuses and different beliefs. Within a strong community they come together, and the struggles and debates that come from these different views bring out more completely developed ideas and often solutions that are better than those that would have come from a homogeneous community that all held one view.

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The News will Find Me – But what will I hear?

October 8, 2009

One of the comments that I keep hearing about news these days is that if the news is important I’ll find out about it.  More and more people are choosing their community as a filter for information.  In Leo Laporte’s talk on New Media he said “If it is important I’ll find out about it [...]

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Thoughts on The Model of the New Media Model

October 7, 2009

I just watched a great video of Leo Laporte talking about “The model of the New Media Model”.  It is well worth listening to.  He talks about a lot of things that I think are “common knowledge” with new media, but puts them together in an enjoyable speech.  Perhaps part of why I think it [...]

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The Trouble with Twitters

August 26, 2008

I must confess, I am a twitterer. But you probably already knew that, and possibly wandered here from my twitter profile in the first place. I find I get a lot out of twitter, from useful information, social connections, news about events local and virtual, and more. The challenge is in taming the flow of [...]

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It’s not a Fishbowl, It’s a Habitrail

June 6, 2008

In a lot of places I hear people talking about how we are in our little echo chamber, or fishbowl. I get that concept. I have talked with people who have written (and had published) books on film who when I talked to them about video on the net said “Oh yeah, my husband sometimes [...]

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Social Connection Across the Virtual/Physical Border

February 5, 2008

What an exciting year this is turning out to be. My official work has begun to pick up, and I’m pushing personal project internally. In the social media/startup/podcasting/tech sphere I’ve started to meet up with people in person. Very exciting and interesting to watch. Online social media is an interesting phenomenon. In a sense it [...]

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The Trivial Nature of Life

December 23, 2007

The past couple of weeks I have been amazed at the dynamics of communities within the Social Media Sphere. Both the Frozen Pea Fund and also the nature of debate, such as the debates in Seesmic that have spilled out into blogs has been fascinating to watch. In a sense these things have existed in [...]

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Frozen Pea Friday

December 21, 2007

So much to post about and so little time on winter-time Friday’s but before I go, a quick post. Please check out the FrozenPeaFund. This is an incredible example of how our online communities and “tribes” come together and support each other. It is more that talk, it really is connection. More on that later.

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Virtually Tagged – 8 Virtually Random Things

December 12, 2007

Ok, technically I’ve already posted on the 8 things about me meme, but those were 8 things about me outside of Second Life. So….when Tara5 Oh tagged me I thought I’d do 8 things about me as it relates to Second Life. (Though looking at where the meme has traveled who I’m going to tag [...]

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Friends, Romans and Countrymen

December 4, 2007

lend me your ears. Oh wait…that was another post but a useful opening line.It seems that the matter of friends, especially those made in the virtual context, has been on the minds of many. I suppose some of this is spurred by the 10,000 post threads (here) and (here) to start with. But it is [...]

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