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Vin Crosbie introduces the newest addition to the Rebuilding Media roster of commentators on the disruptive forces at work in the media industry: Ben Compaine. Ben is a consultant, entrepreneur, policy wonk, academic, and author of numerous influential books and articles including "Who Owns the Media: Competition and Concentration in the Mass Media Industry", winner of the Robert Picard Award for Best New Book in Media Economics.
Ben has been studying the media industry and its impact on society, culture and regulation since 1978, is a noted expert in communications theory, policy, and practice, and has published extensively about media ownership and competition. We're thrilled he's aboard and point you to Rebuilding Media where his blogging will begin shortly...
Ross Mayfield, longtime contributor to Many-to-Many and co-founder and CEO of Socialtext, has announced the release of its Wikiwyg, an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor for wikis you can read more about here.
Stowe addresses, in this post at Get Real, the confusion that's arisen about the Portland, OR event on podcasting that Corante is no longer associated with.
Stowe, in a piece entitled "Social Architecture: The Foundation of The Blogosphere", lays out his latest thinking on the emerging infrastructure of the Social Web and refers to the event Corante will be hosting in Boston on the topic in November.
Says Stowe, in wrapping up the post: "The continued growth of the Blogosphere will make its social architecture even more of an global asset that it has already proven to be. We will continue to witness enormous technological innovation, with dozens of new Flickrs, Technoratis, and De.licio.uses appearing in the next year. As more writing (and other media, like audio, video, and photography) is generated on an ever widening range of topics, more and more machine-generated analysis of human social gestures, and the gestures themselves, will play an increasingly important role in making sense of the Web. Without these techniques, the explosion of the Blogosphere will overwhelm our traditional information-based approaches.
"The criticality of these activities will cause friction on technological, societal, and economic levels, and as so those of us who are most interested and involved in these discussions may have a significant impact on the future direction of the socialized Web. The planned Symposium is intended to bring together thought leaders, practitioners, and entrepreneurs in the arena and to explore the various threads making up the discussion about social architecture."
Neurotech expert and longtime Corante contributor at Brain Waves, Zack Lynch has announced the debut of Neurotech Insights, a paid, semi-monthly newsletter covering the neurotech industry. Geared towards investors, analysts and industry execs, Neurotech Insights surveys market developments, reports on clinical trials, analyzes recent deals, and profiles interesting companies and individuals in what he says is a $100 billion market.
Learn more about the report from Zack himself and be sure to catch his offer at the end of his post for how to get a discount on the annual subscription rate.
Don't miss danah boyd's post from a few days ago on patterns she's observed in an analysis of Technorati data on a random selection of 500 blogs. Among her observations:
When bloggers link to another blog, it is more likely to be same gender.
Blogrolls seem to be very common on politically-oriented blogs and always connect to blogs with similar political views (or to mainstream media).
Few LiveJournals have a blogroll but almost all have a list of friends one click away. This is not considered by search tools that look only at the front page.
Links indicate no weight, no valence, no attributes. I know Technorati has asked folks to indicate positive/negative in their links or to use nofollow, but few do this. And even if people did, that kind of articulation is a social disaster
On LJ and Xanga, there’s a gender division in blogrolls whereby female bloggers have mostly female “friends” and vice versa.
Elizabeth Lane Lawley, who couldn't attend, and Ross Mayfield, who could attended the pre-dinner, provide post-event commentary on the recently wrapped BlogHer conference on Many-to-Many.
Also, try to catch Vin Crosbie today on NPR's Talk of the Nation where he'll be discussing, as previewed here in our new blog Rebuilding Media, 'citizen journalism'.
We've made the decision to postpone the Podcast Hotel. It was a tough decision given how much time and energy we've put into it but ultimately the right one given recent logistical concerns re: the venue and location.
We remain excited about what we'd cooked up and are still committed to creating a breakout event both in terms of format and content, but are afraid we're going to have to wait till a later date to put it on. We're in the process of contacting all associated parties and those who've registered so far. If you have any questions re your registration, the affiliate program, sponsorship, or anything else please contact us at ph@corante.com.
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