Peter Merholz & The Word Blog
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Are Bloggers Always Fighting? Are blogs today here because of 9/11?
Posted by cheuer in Personal, The Noble Pursuit on March 6th, 2008
In doing research tonight on Blogs for The Social Media Playbook, I came across this article entitled “A Rift Among Bloggers” from the New York Times, dated June 10, 2002. What struck me most here, and why I am simply quoting it here, is how odd to think that tech bloggers and war bloggers were battling over the purpose, intention and possibility of blogging in the manner they did.
‘The Weblog world before Sept. 11 was mostly inward-looking — mostly
tech people talking about tech things,” said Glenn Reynolds, a law
professor at the University of Tennessee who publishes InstaPundit.com,
a popular site in the war blog camp that attracts about 19,000 readers
on weekdays. ”After 9/11 we got a whole generation of Weblogs that
were outward-looking” and written for a general audience, he said.
Wow. Was it really 9/11 that brought a wider cross-section of our society into blogging?
At the time, my employee and friend David Pruitt, installed Movable Type for me to play with to solve my content publishing dilemma (took a bit of time and I wanted to publish my poetry). I never quite got it looking write in those early days, and only managed to write one post, which I read aloud at the opening night of Northern Voice recently.
That first post, entitled We, together, have a dream…, represents a big vision about what I call The Noble Pursuit, stemming from my optimistic desire for dreaming and making a better world.
Wow. I didn’t even realize it, but my earliest blogging was a response to the war on terror…
The Mind Body Connection
Wondering what you think about the mind-body connection and what resources you might recommend for me to read on this important subject.
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links for 2008-03-04
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Good listing of all the main events for SxSW and parties – this is about the 12th map/calendar I have seen so far….
links for 2008-03-03
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Really great stuff that Jeff Pulver is doing with his Social Media Breakfasts – hope to help with and participate in a few soon…
Transforming the Heart of Business (My BIL Talk)
Posted by cheuer in Insytes, Leadership, Personal, SocialMedia, Speaking, The Noble Pursuit on March 2nd, 2008
Utter your Support for your Presidential Candidate
Posted by cheuer in Clients, My Utterz, Personal, Social Media Tools, SocialMedia, utterz on February 29th, 2008
Yesterday, Utterz (my client) announced its new election focused social media tool, a widget you can easily place on your blog, web site or social network, that tells the world who you are supporting in the US Presidential Election. Unlike most of the badges that are available from the main campaign Web sites that are just GIF Banner Ads, the Utterz Voice Your Support widget contains an audio message that you personally record, telling everyone why you support your candidate.
Whether you are behind Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul or even Ralph Nader, you can get a Voice Your Support widget that activates your blog readers to understand why you are supporting your candidate of choice. When they first announced the widget on the Utterz blog yesterday, it came out with only the top 4 candidates – but listening to the feedback from everyone, they quickly added an additional 4 widget options. In addition to Ron Paul and Ralph Nader, they added an independent option and a ‘fix the electoral college’ option. <plug & praise> This is what I really like about the team at Utterz – they are really responsive to the community and totally focused on their users. </plug & praise>
So enough of the pimping, I want to get more into the subject matter at hand – the elction… Perhaps you saw Larry Lessig’s excellent video on why he supports Obama – this is a powerful way to move beyond static banner ads, simple blog posts, and lawn signs, to lend your real voice and your real reasons to your candidate. As all of us social media folks know, we trust each other, more than we trust media or institutions. This new widget allows anyone, from their computer or any telephone, to record a message and display it easily for everyone to hear. Its so cool.
As you may have already seen, I placed a Voice Your Support widget on my blog the other day, putting my support behind Obama. Why? Well, click the play button and listen for yourself…. ok, I am waiting. So, as you heard, I am supporting him because I think it is time for a visionary leader – someone to see beyond this mess we are in and who isn’t held down by ‘the way its always been done’. If we keep doing it the same way, with the same insiders, playing the same game – our game called Life may soon be over. Don’t agree? I am up for talking about it civilly – here in the comments or over at Utterz.
Jeremiah Owyang – Online Community Best Practices
Posted by cheuer in Uncategorized on February 28th, 2008
links for 2008-02-27
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This is a great presentation from Doc – worth your time to watch…
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Chris Heuer is the founder of Mentor Bureau, a global collaborative of Startup Mentors focused on #SmoothScaling over #Hypergrowth. He has invested his life in working to create a better society through personal and community efforts that brings people together such as Rysing Tyde and Social Media Club. To learn more about Chris, visit his profile on LinkedIn.