http://modadmin.boutotcom.com mods, admins and communities Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:26:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Can the content produced by readers be a part of a magazine? This is crucial question that a lot of media are asking. Paul Ford, Web Editor of Harper's Magazine, tells first in a conversation with journalist Choire published in Awl: What I wish I could do is take our tens of ... http://modadmin.boutotcom.com/2010/02/10/harpers-and-metafilter-magazines-and-communities/ I have begun to publish my work media machina, 10 years in the making: the quest for business models for news on the Web. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKyS9G5_jqc[/youtube] Video: Ouvert 5 Catherine Genest 2009 used with permission of the artist http://modadmin.boutotcom.com/2009/10/08/media-machina/ The move from modadmin.com is finally done! I was planning to create a new site for a work in progress called "media machina" and I used this opportunity to move all my blogs under one domain, boutotcom.com, and one platform WordPress MU, and here we are at last. It's time to thank ... http://modadmin.boutotcom.com/2009/06/08/hello-world/ Part of my ongoing collection of (apparently) unrelated quotes: warrenellis I appear to gain more followers when I don't actually post anything. I consider this to be a valuable lesson about the internet, and life. 7 minutes ago from web hrheingold 74% of the earth's population are social media strategists 17 minutes ... http://modadmin.boutotcom.com/2008/12/17/twittering-from-inside-the-event-horizon/ Last summer, I was talking on the phone with Mitch Joel about an article I was writing and he kept telling me I should read Clay Shirky's book Here Comes Everybody. I told Mitch I had read all these excerpts and all Clay's interviews in 999 blogs and that was ... http://modadmin.boutotcom.com/2008/12/14/clay-shirkys-hundred-dollars-bills/ Mark Pesce continues to publish installments of his next book the human network. I quote here a few sentences related to collective intelligence and collective knowledge tools from his last chapter: Crowdsource Yourself. The first problem in intelligence augmentation: how do you make a human being smarter? The answer: pair humans ... http://modadmin.boutotcom.com/2008/12/14/intelligence-augmentation/ back-to-the-landism. http://modadmin.boutotcom.com/2008/12/13/new-word-70s-boomers-inititative-back-to-the-landism/ Why are so many people suddenly entertaining the thought of the imminent death of Web 2.0? As I understand it, Web 2.0 is just beginning to be used by mass media and businesses: their managers are curious about it, they are giving contracts to explore how it could work for ... http://modadmin.boutotcom.com/2008/11/03/web-20-is-just-beginning/ David Carr: How much more powerful is (...) networked intelligence than a reporter with a phone, a Rolodex and the space between his or her ears? As the former newspaperman and Web evangelist Jeff Jarvis (...) has been saying since before broadband, the Web is not just a way to shout, ... http://modadmin.boutotcom.com/2008/08/10/listening-to-the-networked-intelligence/ Iain M. Banks: Part of the training of a Special Circumstances agent was learning a) that the rules were supposed to be broken sometimes, b) just how to go about breaking the rules, and c) how to get away with it, whether the rule-breaking had led to a successful outcome or ... http://modadmin.boutotcom.com/2008/08/08/another-batch-of-out-of-context-cites-i-like/