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“I find more and more places that are either outer boroughs of major metro areas, or dense urban suburbs that share a border with metro areas.” Annonsörer är småaffärer. Det är roligare att blogga än att sälja annonser. Tidningar kan inte vara roli

WashingtonPost.com has soft-launched “Local Explorer, ” which allows users to map crime, home sales and school information by zip code. It is a great model for “mapped journalism.”

“Explore Washington-area Communities. Grocery and drug stores, restaurants, bars, hospitals and more, plus:
* Facts & Figures * Local News from The Post * Community Resources * Classifieds”

“the evolution of a reboot participant over several years involves the realization that it’s okay to skip stuff and, indeed, that by skipping stuff you increase dramatically your chance of random conversations with interesting people”

“I have published notes from the sessions I attended in mind map format on flickr, but I am also making the mind map files available for download /…/. The notes are in Mind Manager format”

“I really like Mather’s idea of ‘people like us’, and I think it works, but that group isn’t necessarily valuable in all situations. Not only do each of us assign trust in different ways /…/ but we do so differently in each activity that we do.”

“The value of a social network is that it should facilitate communication between people who want to communicate. Just about everyone on Myspace has made their profile private. /…/ Myspace is now a series of small and private social networks.”

Det behövs tydligare kontroller för att sortera rekommendationer från våra sociala nätverk.

“the communities are starting to move to peripheral devices. /…/ There was a lot of talks about mobile and ways to integrate the web into the first life.”

“ClickComments /…/ är ett kommentarsystem innehållande symboler istället för traditionella kommentarer. Ett klick och sedan har man kommenterat. /…/ Ett enkelt sätt att få mer information om vad läsarna vill läsa om.”

Niklas Jonason går igenom de nya funktionerna i den svenska versionen av Google Maps.

“I love it that his slides are just photos of people he’s got to know through blogging/podcasting.” “everybody’s a superhero. You now have access to tools that can let you do something that’s bigger than what you do in your every day.”

“# You need text. # have mailing lists # Have your first episde available # Give your visitors things to do # Subscriptions have to be one click # Offer both download and direct play options.”

Today, what old media has is a brand which is (hopefully) filled with trust and credibility. /…/ I think they need to leverage that trust and start becoming the hub about what’s going on in the world /…/.”

Svensk punk och postpunk i passande svartvitt.

“Under ett par dagar har jag testat och känt på tjänsten som självklart har som mål att på sikt ge Blocket.se en match. /…/ Här är min intryck och förslag på förbättringar efter att par dagar med Rubbet.”

“Korta beslutsvägar, mod, mycket engagemang och stort förtroende har gett oss en färdig avsiktsförklaring att på rekordfart bygga lokala varianter av grannar.se. De 1 juli förändras förutsättningarna för hushållsnära tjänster radikalt.”

“Here’s the basic premise of the story: What can we learn about a ton of different things when we follow a bunch of economically and ethnically diverse kids through one of the nation’s biggest malls on a single Saturday afternoon?”