In an interesting side story of the PdF2008 conference, it turns out that the conference actually had to pay Jazz at Lincoln Center for the rights to record, tape, and distrubute the content of the conference.  Jazz at Lincoln Center retains the copyright to all “performances” in their facility.  So to get your hands on [...]

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Well, the web is approaching another one of those tipping points, and it seems that “LIVE” is the next big thing.
Through sites such as qik.com and mogulus.com, users can stream video live to the world.  They also capture this live video and turn it around into ondemand video content after the live event is over.  [...]

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The transactional cost of gathering a group of people together has gotten very low thanks to the Internet and mobile phones.
Thanks to technology, there’s virtually no cost involved with getting people together, to exchange information, and act in support or opposition of a particular common interest.
Increasingly, media is not just a source of information.   It [...]

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Wow.  One of the coolest concepts in blog tracking I have seen in a while.  If you are really a big time blog geek, you’ve probably seen “maps” of the blogosphere before.  They usually look like big and small dots on a page connected by lines.  The big ones look like hairballs.
Well, there’s a new [...]

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We’ll be at the 2008 Personal Democracy Forum Conference in New York City?  What’s the PdF?  Read more here.
So why are we blogging about the PdF Conference?  Well, it is probably the largest gathering of political and technology bloggers on the east coast.  The best of the bests are here.
So we will be posting what we’ve [...]

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