Guess what? Rising Voices has been as the world’s best weblog. Pretty cool, huh? Thanks to Solana for the amazing post she wrote on Global Voices. Here’s what she wrote: Global Voices’ citizen media outreach project, Rising Voices has been nominated for a “Best of the Blogs Award” (B.O.B.) in the category “Best Weblog”. More [...]

I love this: Via Catherine via Andrew via Jack.

In 1976 Jimmy Carter ran against Gerald Ford for the presidency of the United States. In that election 26.8 percent of voters lived in a landslide county. By 2004 that percentage almost doubled. About six of every 10 counties in the 2004 election were won by landslide margins. In California, right now, 13 counties are [...]

Here’s the bad news. As of a couple days ago Chicago garnered the dubious distinction as murder capital of the United States. Now the good news: some very smart and dedicated individuals are thinking seriously about how to reverse the trend. Dr. Gary Slutkin asks us if it is possible to put an end to [...]

Sure, almost all of the presentations here at Pop!Tech have been given in some form elsewhere. The information is out there, available mostly for free. There are websites, blogs, articles, videos and books which have all discussed the ideas that are being presented today. The magic of Pop!Tech is that, unlike most conferences, it brings [...]

Josh Groban is a pop star. The type of pop star with teenage girls screaming and fainting at every concert and young women waiting in his hotel lobby wherever he travels. These worshipping fans even have a name: Grobanites. In 2002 the Grobanites decided that they wanted to buy him a birthday present. Here is [...]

Two years ago at Pop!Tech Chris Anderson, the author of The Long Tail and the editor of Wired Magazine, gave his very first presentation about “Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business“, which then turned into an oft-cited article for Wired Magazine, and will soon be expanded into a complete book. Over the past [...]

If you didn’t want to pay $3,500 to get into this year’s Pop!Tech you can still watch the entire conference live via streaming on the Pop!Tech website. There are also many other bloggers writing up several of the talks including the tireless Bobbie Johnson on the Pop!Tech blog. Also here is Rob Katz from NextBillion.net [...]

Malcolm Gladwell needs little introduction. He wants to discuss the theme of scarcity and abundance as it applies to people. Specifically he wants to discuss America’s scarcity of capitalization; that is, the rate at which a given community takes advantage of its collective human potential. (Gladwell tips his hat to James R. Flynn who researched [...]

The theme of this year’s Pop!Tech is scarcity and abundance. (It’s being streamed live right now.) Andrew Zolli, speaking in front of a slide with a brightly lit grocery store juxtaposed next to a refugee camp in South Asia, reminds us that we have such an abundance of goods that Chris Anderson argues that $0.00 [...]