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Over at Community Mobilization I talk about a the dangers of Narrowliving. Joi Ito had a post on Narrowcasting, which is the production and distribution of niche media to small highly targeted audiences. The technological advances in printing and on-line publishing is making this possible and I am very skeptical of what the future holds if the trend expands unchecked. ...

If you want to try out a site that falls within the domain now loosely defined as Web 2.0, I recommend Netvibes.com. It’s 2.0-ish because, as a user, you have control of how you design your personal page and because its built around RSS feeds rather than URLs. You can easily create little boxes for sites with RSS feeds you ...

Over on Community Mobilization I talk abit about  Mososo, a cellphone application that is used is social networking analysis. I am a huge proponent of using user supplied data (cellphone call records in this case) to create group understanding and visualizations of mutually agreed upon interaction.  There are some great social network applications here that are yet to be explored ...

I see that Stowe Boyd at Get Real and I seem to be having similar thoughts about the need to think about dealing with disaster. Businesses and organizations need to have their own disaster preparedness. Time and resources need to be devoted to the question: If the worst happens, how will we continue to operate? That goes for hurricanes, earthquakes ...