The Seattle Chapter of the Social Media Club is having an event tonight, May 1, 2008 at the Text 100 office in downtown Seattle. The meeting starts at 6:30 and refreshments will be served.
Here’s the skinny-
A Published Stream of Consciousness:
Do Business and Micro-blogging Mix?

Micro-blogging services such as Twitter are continually growing in popularity, […]

Been a tough and busy few days, but today is going to rock (though losing the earlier version of this post was not the highlight I hoped for). Tonight in San Francisco Karen O’Brien and I are leading a discussion on connecting with our communities - how to find them, how to determine where […]

The digerati’s first impressions of MySpace’s social news venture, which launched in beta yesterday, was anything but positive. Well undercooked was the general consensus, even for a beta launch.
No one was more harsh, or more scatological, than Rex Dixon who called MySpace News nothing more than a clipping service linking the kind of of generic […]

Who Knows What’s Best for Citizen Journalists? ….I was fortunate yesterday to help lead a fascinating discussion about trust, journalism and pro am media at the New York Social Media Club meeting. NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen provided the jumping off point by presenting and discussing his mini-empire of experimental, participatory journalism. That empire includes […]

No doubt Twitter was the story of the week. In fact, given the character limits on Twitter messages, there were probably more words written about Twitter on then Internet this week than there were words written in Twitter messages–from raves about Twittermap, a mash up of Twitter and Google Maps–to a big media wrap up […]

Just about 6 weeks ago, I wrote a post about Twitter being a great evolution of IM, moving to EM, which I called “everywhere messaging”. Well, in the weeks since, I have come to realize it is really about EP, “everywhere publishing” - but not just […]

Instant Messaging (IM) is not dead or even dying, but EM is about to change everything. While IM emphasizes the immediacy of the communication, EM can represent the value of the communication. Then again, like any communications channel, what gets transmitted can also be pure drivel. EM, however, has tremendous potential for solving […]