Knight
Agaric looks to get on Calais bandwagon
Despite what Thunderbird thought,
Calais is not the oft-spammed product with a similar name.
It is, instead:
Why you should run your own blog (or join a trusted community)
(Also, why you should support the EFF.)
* Between Friends: The Perils of Centralized Blogging
One of the paradoxes of current social software is how many
of your closely-guarded secrets you are obliged to entrust
to a third party. The news that LiveJournal has been sold
to SUP, a Moscow-based company, is the latest vivid
indication of this danger. Now, LiveJournal journal entries
are under the control of not only a young new company, but
a new jurisdiction: Russia. What does that mean for the
What should I say?
As part of a build-a-module-and-blog-about-it slot in the first round of the Knight News Challenge, I'm being asked to, well, blog. Which Knight and MediaShift (PBS) will promote. What I'm really going for is a much bigger and far less tame goal than Related Content– approximately, revolution against bad, anti-people media. That's step one in a building a larger, more successful movement for justice, liberty, and a happier planet.
Now how do I fit that into short blog posts about reinventing community news for the digital age?
