For-Profit Citizen Journalism Sites
July 7th, 2005 by kevin

I saw this blog on for profit citizen journalism sites(LINK) through technorati a few days ago and have been to busy to spend the time to communicate my thoughts.

Authority and The Milgram Experiments

Reading the book Small World by Mark Buchanan (American Scientist Review)lent
to me by Jerry Argyriou, I know this will be one of the many posts I
blog on about the book. Simply amazing, solid hard empirical evidence
on social networks.

Online Traction-

Some people call it gossip, others sneer and say it is nothing more
than a fleeting trend. I'm still suffering with the flu to think too
much on my own answer but I thought this piece by Dan Gilmore was
priceless. -KevinFrom Dan Gilmore: Listening Too MuchIn
the 1980s, when the online possibilities of news publishing were
starting to become clearer, a smart man told me something that I
started telling other journalists: "One of these days, we're going to find out what people actually want to read."

I saw this in Cool Tools and thought I would share

Canary Digital Wireless Hotspotter

Best Wi-Fi hotspot finder

Canary's hot spot finder is the best of the several stand-alone
Wi-Fi detectors that I've tried -- three of which I've gone so far as
to purchase. The Canary uses AAA batteries, rather than the button
cells that some detectors do (harder to replace in a pinch);
consequently it's not quite as svelte as some, but the extra goodies
are worth the chubbier, still-palmable housing. Canary's unit scrolls
across its 12-character LCD display the name, channel and signal
strength (4 bars is the highest) of the networks it finds, which makes
it truly useful for checking where your own access point's signal
reaches.