WordPress Wednesday News: 4 WordCamps, WordPress 2.6.2, Bad Themes, Count Twitterers, Threaded Comments, and Sticky Posts
Four WordCamps and one WordPress Meetup all on September 27. It s WordPress Day! WordPress 2.6.2 released. Update now. New Plugin released taking advantage of new features in 2.6.2. Comment threading and inline editing added to upcoming WordPress 2...

I m Looking for a few Good Social Media Stories
I am starting my 16th month of writing my Social Media Global Reports. To date, I have interviewed 108 people in 34 countries. They are a diverse lot, ranging from Michael Dell, founder of the world s second largest computer company to Wael Abbas who...

The Hobson and Holtz Report - Podcast #379: September 11, 2008
Content summary: Remembering 9/11; next FIR Live on Blogtalk Radio on Sept 20; update on iTunes; follow-up: GM s anti-misinformation website; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York reports on BusinessWeek s guide to CEO micro-blog...

Crowdsourcing: business model failure vs. management mistake
While a combination of my job and a bit of intellectual curiosity leads me to devour a lot of content on the web, there is precisely one publication that I pay to have delivered to my house each week - The Economist. It s always a special treat whe...

As the world fights climate change, could games be part of the solution
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking to Ken Eklund, a freelance writer and game designer, and the creator of a fascinating Alternate Reality Game (ARG) called World Without Oil. As the world grapples with climate change and other global iss...

It s Not Internet Pessimists vs. Internet Optimists; It s Simply Reality
Adam Thierer has tried to categorize a bunch of different book authors and internet thinkers into one of two camps: internet optimists and internet pessimists. I m somewhat surprised to be included among the optimists for a few reasons -- not the ...