Posts about Community

10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments

In Community, How to, Internet on 28 July 2008 tagged Media

The other day Bob Garfield had a good kvetch about dumb comments on newspaper websites on his show, On The…

Weird Turn Pro: Crowdsourcing for Creatives

In Community, Conferences, Crowdsourcing, SXSW on 12 March 2008

At SXSW Interactive 2008, I delivered a talk called Weird Turn Pro: Crowdsourcing for Creatives. I promised to put my…

Rule 1 for Collaborative Media: Ask First

In Business, Community, Creativity, Crowdsourcing, Internet, Justice, Photography, Technology on 17 December 2007

Here’s what happened, as far as I can tell. Lane Hartwell is a fantastic photographer. She recently went full-time with…

NaBloPoMo Q&A 2: Identities and Pants

In Community, Interviews, NaBloPoMo, Q&A on 3 November 2007

Nikol Hasler, from the awesome Midwest Teen Sex Show, which is not what you think it is, asked: Since so…

No Spectators

In Business, Community, Crowdsourcing, Geek, Internet, Technology, Wisdom of Crowds on 19 October 2007

It’s difficult to remember now, but there was a time when companies looked at the internet and made a ponderous…

Did Assignment Zero Work?

In Community, Crowdsourcing, Journalism, Writing on 16 July 2007

As powazek.com readers know, I participated in Assignment Zero’s Interview Week over the last few months. Jeff Howe, who coined…

Clue Unit Interview

In Business, Community, Internet, Interviews on 26 June 2007

A few weeks ago I had a great conversation with Jake, Lee, and Chris for their Clue Unit podcast about…

TOC: That Was Fun!

In Community, Conferences on 20 June 2007

Thanks to the nice folks at O’Reilly for including me in the TOC (Tools of Change) conference, and thanks to…

The Wrong Fork

In Blogging, Business, Community, Internet on 31 May 2007

Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia has a great riff I’ve heard him deliver in several interviews. It goes something like this:…