It’s late notice, which is way better than none. If you have a message you care about, this is a chance to hear all about how to be a useful part of the movement:
Today, you have an opportunity – a chance to make a difference and to lead others while doing it. It’s easier, more fun and more profitable than you think. But, only if you choose to lead instead of follow… On Tuesday, October 21 at 2pm Eastern Time, meet NY Times bestselling author, Seth Godin, and learn why it’s more profitable, powerful and productive to be a leader rather than to sit back and do nothing. You’ll discover why you already have the skills you need to make an incredible difference and how you can start leading right now.
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Fascinating story about the kind of people that make the world go round from the Chicago Tribune Blogger gets off ground with 787 . The kind that stays up until 4 a.m. sometimes poring over god knows what and hustling on the Internet to feed his curiousity:
Using media such as Twitter, he broadcast photos and commentary in real time from the plane’s assembly lines, to Boeing’s consternation. He also scored some of his biggest scoops by enlisting Boeing’s workers to correct misinformation in his blog, known as FlightBlogger. They did so at the risk of losing their jobs.
Among Netizens, this is a version of open sourcing, where a blogger calls on a community of readers to contribute facts and correct errors, to the greater good of all readers.
Ostrower remains an unabashed fan of the Dreamliner, which analysts think won’t take to the air before early 2009.
“I don’t know where this goes from here,” Ostrower said. “I hope to see it fly. I’ll be standing by the runway and sobbing like a baby.”
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…Bezos effectively hushed critics who worried that the company was spending too much on technology and shipping discounts. Now, the company he founded 14 years ago is firmly focused on exactly the kind of new ventures that Bezos relishes.
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Looking at PostLater: http://ping.fm/Eb6Ex Bloggers rejoice #status
Yoono’s new project is live, but no one’s talking until Monday. All of a sudden, I can’t wait for Monday: http://ping.fm/rzgaj
You know it’s close to the end of the year when “Best of” lists for 2008 are gradually starting to pop up all over
This morning, I found out that my dream had come true: a way to watch events and get a feel for what other people are thinking in real time. Current TV and Twitter are starting us off with the final Presidential debate:
We will broadcast as many of your debate tweets as possible right over the candidates, in real time, on our live broadcast.
Now if I could only stream it on a big, fat tv screen live. This will be a huge step in the right direction if well executed.
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World Fast Against Malaria is this Friday. Anyone else joining? http://ping.fm/diKiG
The question I was asked had to do with the demographics of social media. How many people of color participate? The question came from a diversity consultant while we were discussing how young people today are being brought up on social networks AND some statistics about age and email/social network use. I referenced Liza Sabater’s Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. The consultant also pointed out that flickr photo I used seemed to indicate that the percentage are low.
So, once I got home, I put a question out to my Twitter network. Here’s a roundup of what I learned…
The march through Jena, La., last September, which drew more than 20,000 demonstrators from across the country largely on the strength of a blogging campaign, demonstrated the potency of the new Internet movement, many analysts say—and the waning influence of traditional civil rights groups.
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Ping.fm beta desktop test: How passing strange, for I have traveled far,
And never have I heard tell of this What.
What language speak they in the land of What?