• OC Business Forum Starts today in Sonoma

    We will be adding blog posts, flickr feeds and maybe even a tweet or two throughout the day.

  • Rock on Kevin: Digg sticks to its values

    Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 In response to community uproar over censoring stories about the hd-dvd crack: “But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories…

  • I’m quoted in Inc.

    I made this month’s Inc. Magazine, in the “Ask Inc.” section of the magazine. It’s a small quote, but I got a nice plug for the Online Community Report blog. The question to Inc. was about how to increase activity in a company’s online community. The part of my answer that was quoted (more or…

  • I find your lack of courtesy disturbing

    Technological Terror I

  • I know we are in a bubble again

    I have predicted that when people start talking on their mobiles while peeing again, we would be in another bubble. As of 3:30 pm yesterday, we are officially in another bubble. ps: I was not the guilty party. pss: what’s up with that people?

  • RSS: Too geeky for too long

    Lee and Sachi LeFever from CommomCraft put together this hilarious and educational video on RSS. In my opinion, great format! Enjoy: Click To Play

  • Bloggers Code of Conduct

    Cross-posted from the OC Report: Tim O’Reilly has called for and drafted a Bloggers code of conduct, mostly in response to the over-the-top harassment that Kathy Sierra received a few weeks ago. From the O’Reilly Radar blog: We celebrate the blogosphere because it embraces frank and open conversation. But frankness does not have to mean…

  • Just becuase you can…

    I’m struggling with the concept of “always on” personal video feeds, a la Justin TV. I thought it was interesting when I first heard about Justin. Then I saw that Robert Scoble and Jerimiah Owyang will be streaming live from Web 2.0 Expo. My feelings are mixed. My initial “oh, cool” reaction has faded a…

  • Blogging & Design: Jesse breaks it down

    Jesse Thomas from Ogilvy breaks down his POV blogs in general, and blog design specifically. My takeaway after viewing: Why do we have SO many ugly babies out there? I think the availability of reaymade tools and hosted solutions has led to many of us who should know better (me included) accepting the “common” in…

  • Where does the community team belong in a commercial organization?

    Cross-posted from the OC Report: Where does the community team belong in a commercial organization? This topic came up at our recent Online Community Roundtable and we ran out of time before we could properly discuss, so I thought I would queue up the discussion here. The responsibility for Online Community in many organizations is…