Working Your Community’s Blogosphere

Recently, Darren Rowse at ProBlogger posted Five Reasons Why Mom Blogs Are the Blogs to Watch. Darren says “Mom blogs are poised to become the next big “It” when it comes to the internet–they’re gathering power like no other blogging niche and will only get bigger and better.” Then he lists some reasons why - [...]

SXSWi2008, Day 2: Social Network Coups: The Users are Revolting!

Panelists: Jessamyn West, Gina Trapani, Jessica Dzwigalski, Annalee Newitz
[aside] - I came to hear/see Jessamyn, who completely rocks! But the panel was good, too.
Newitz:
three kinds of user revolts:

anarchist-style pranks
grassroots protests
op-ed/open letter from high-profile users

Discussed some Digg revolts:

paying people to Digg your page
the HD code thing

Dzwigalski (Jessica Linden):

Griefers - tax revolt in July 2003
CopyBot protest, Nov [...]