Thursday, May 29, 2003

Smart Mobs: Is there a future for SmartChurchMobs? This book, which I picked up as soon as it was released last fall, had the same sort of impact on me as Rheingold's The Virtual Community did ten years ago. It described for me a fascinating social phenomenon of people connecting --- getting Wired up with each other, and the ways in which community blossomed in many online places and in many channels. Now, with the release of Smart Mobs, it is a new "unwired" , freed up channel, via Text messengers (often combined with portable phones) , PDAs, portable PC's , and "Blogging" live and on the go. I have a few posts back in the fall on Smart Church Mobs (I'll link it here shortly but you can search also on Smart Mobs and find it) 8:32:23 PM    comment []

the Future Of Ideas A Book that opned my ideas to the threat posed by the attempts to control various aspects of the Internet. Very interesting, and scary stories about the way monopolies are granted. Even more interesting are the ideas about the commons, and how everybody wins when the Internet, and software, are treated as commons instead of property, 6:39:06 PM    comment []

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