Saturday, September 21, 2002

Googlebombing Coble I presume most of my readers already know about Tara Sue, who is running for Congress against Howard Coble of Coble-Berman Bill fame. If not, go read Tara Sue Takes Aim and come back. So Tara has gotten slashdotted twice now. Nice, this is going to get her some visibility, but again in all likeliness the effect will be limited to tech circles. What we need is for Tara to show up in Google. But not for the search term "Tara Sue Grubb" - whoever's going to type that in Google already knows her. No, she needs to show up on searches for "Howard Coble" Let's fetch something from the blogosphere bag of tricks... There. Googlebombing. So I am calling upon you, dear readers, for participating in another memetics experiment of the noblest kind. Please copy the following link in your weblog, preferably in your blogrolling list: Howard Coble and ask your own readers to do the same. I'm curious to see what will happen in a couple days. I think we should aim for a place in the top 10. (Am I too ambitious?) What do you think? []  links to this post    4:14:25 PM   Homeless Guy's Blog The Homeless Guy. Amazing - a homeless guy has a blog. He blogs from public libraries. I'm very interested in reading his stuff! [Clarity's blog] Are we talking about a democratic medium or what? What do you think? []  links to this post    3:54:43 PM   Howard Rheingold Interview PopTech, the blog features an interview with online community pioneer Howard Rheingold. Howard is just about to release his latest book, Smart Mobs. "there's a little-known but important political and legal conflict that is coming to a climax very soon and will determine the kind of role people play in regard to technology in the future. Will we be users who actively shape the medium ... Or, will we be consumers, the way that people who use television technology have been? We sit there and passively consume content that is packaged and sold to us by others and have little or no say about it." I kinda asked the same question yesterday when talking about The Invisible Customers. "Any time you have a competition something that requires a top-down infrastructure and something that can grow virally from lots of individuals, the viral will win every time." I think this is an overgeneralization. There are countless subcultures that have grown virally, bottom-up, but never became mainstream. You need something that taps deeply into fundamental human needs, to succeed bottom-up. See also this previous interview with Rheingold at Edge. What do you think? []  links to this post    3:48:28 PM

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