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.  So you can go back and watch the recording.

The real groundbreaker is the live video comes straight off your cellphone.  A live streaming video gets pumped wirelessly up into the cloud and back down onto these sites.

So you could be sitting in your company board meeting, pull out your cell phone, and stream the meeting to your offices around the world in real time. 

Click Start…do your song and dance…then click stop.  It’s that easy.

It can take the concept of live blogging to a whole new level.

Right now, the streaming tech is available on certain Nokia phones and some other models.  The good news is that Qik is releasing an iPhone version of their system very soon (if they haven’t already).  I’d imagine it will be out with the AppStore.

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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 is a source of coordinating action.  New media makes the process easier.

Clay  Shirky’s Site

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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 (or just new to me) player in the space called Linkfluence.net.  Their algorithms organise the data in even more interesting ways based on link popularity.

For example, the system can determine if you are a liberal or conservative blogger based on the types of sites that link to you, and the types of sites that you link out to. Then, that data is compiled into spheres of influces and networks.

You can then run simulations to see what kind of “splash” certain blogs make when they publish content.  For example, the more influential bloggers have their content spread over the blogosphere like a virus within moments of publication. 

Less influential sites make a very little splash, and it can all be visualized on the system. 

Definitely worth checking out.

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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 learned from a process perspective (no politics).  There’s lots of cool technology here, and the world’s best bloggers using it.  So bear with us through out little two day mini-series.

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I was browsing ShoeMoney today, and I saw a post about a new (or maybe just newer) plugin called Increase Sociability.

I had seen it in action before on the front end of a different website, but didn’t know that was what I was seeing.

Basically, the idea is to plop a special line of text at the top of your blog post when a user comes to your site through Digg, Stumble, etc.  The plugin knows when people came to your site from one of the social voting sites, and it knows which one.  It then, for example, will remind the Digg user to digg your post.

However, users that just browse your site the good old fashioned way won’t see anything.

The idea is to give the reader just a little reminder to give you a vote.  As a result, you should get more social votes.

So, I’m going to test it on a few other sites and see how it goes.

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