Indiana and the Friedman Foundation’s Generator Forum
Be inclusive, not just exclusive…. while launching C-SPAN’s Convention Hubs through TechCrunch and Mashable and Debate Hubs through ZDNetand Ars Technica was certainly effective, what sustained the success of these projects was the manual linking to blog posts, reaching out to a variety of bloggers over Twitter, email, phone and IM… and even reading blog and Twitter posts on air…
Coming Back Online, Maintaining Balance
I am just working to put it back into a larger context of my life/health, the lives of the people that matter to me (many of whom aren't mass consumers of the Internet's many gems) and the larger issues facing our world.
What are the sounds a Web Community makes?
I have been enjoying participating in, learning from, and collecting my thoughts on the part longstanding part burgeoning-emerging DC new media/tech community. As I have said before, there are undoubtedly many many groups that meet, organize, take action, support one another, etc. that I have yet to discover, but am excited to do so.
Studying the Shadows from Startup Weekend DC
To apply this same methodology, the blog posts, WaPo article, and comments from Startup Weekend are in fact a shadow being cast for us — in the DC area — and for the rest of the country, for that matter, to read as an emerging body of energy, ideas and entrepreneurism. They tell the story.