The revolution will not be YouTubed. Content is not king; contact is king.

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Oh dear. Maybe it’s jetlag, maybe it’s just conference-exhaustion, but I’ve reached that time of the day where the vast numbers of people just look exhausting and alienating to me instead of friendly and interesting, and although I’ve chatted with a number […]

Bummer. I was suffering from conference overload and zoned out long enough to miss the bulk of the international panel which was one of the things I was most interested in. Right now Jeremy Heimans, one of the people who ran SÈgolËne […]

[Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2007 in New York] Seth Godin – a marketing blogger who’s doing a very amusing talk with lots of good sound bites and funny slides, mostly arguing that politicians need to be aware of the paradigm shift […]

[Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2007 in New York] The digital divide is getting worse. Ten years ago companies etc weren’t all networked. In ten years everyone in power has massive network access, but the disadvantaged still have next to none. But […]

Farouk Olu Aregbe started the Facebook group One Million Strong for Barack. I just had a look at it and see it’s now at 322,483 members. They’re working at actually activating these members by getting them to come to events and to […]

[Notes from her talk at the Personal Democracy Forum 2007 in New York] A lot of the things that we take for granted in physical publics don’t transfer to the net – for instance, presence. Politicians use physical presence – but online, […]

Thomas Friedman, author of The World Is Flat and columnist for the New York Times. This is a sampler from three new chapters he’s adding to the latest version of the book.

Yochai Benkler is the author of the influential book Wealth of Networks, and is speaking fast for a short time.