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Amy Jo Kim (author of "Community Building on the Web) is the newest guest blogger at Corante's weblog that focuses on social software, Many-to-many. It's great to see Amy Jo getting exposure in the blog world. She's been a great resource for many years and fairly new to weblogs. It'll be great to see what she has to say on Many-to-Many.

It was 1 year ago today that I posted my first public and personal weblog entry. To celebrate, LeeLeFever.com has a completely new look- starting today. Time to get away from this computer and celebrate.

The cyberbrains behind Howard Dean |CNET.com

This interview describes some of the goals and tactics in using the Internet for the Dean campaign.

Some of the commenters in a previous post made the assumption that the campaign is all about weblogs. I think this interview shows a side of the campaign that's much more about using the Internet to get people out of their homes and interacting with one another face-to-face via resources like MeetUp.com.

Is using the Internet for organizing and fundraising really new? Campaigns like John McCain's have successfully raised money and organized online. As far back as 1992, campaigns were using FTP sites. What makes Dean different?

This is sort of a radical change. What we are doing is using the Internet to encourage people to organize offline--the great power is allowing people ways to find each other and have meetings offline. The energy that comes out from these offline meetings will be driving our campaign, so every month there are about 4,000 meetings organized online through both Meetup.com and "Get Local," our online event creation service. The Internet allows these people to find each other, but ultimately the campaign is happening offline. That is the big difference. We are taking up the next step and encouraging people to use the online (world) as well as organizing offline and that is why this is so extraordinary.

 

Via: Anil's Daily Links

musings of a social architect

I just wanted to send a quick shout-out to promote a new blogger- Amy Jo Kim.

She wrote Community Building on the Web one of the standard books on the subject - and one that helped me immensely.

Recently she was the VP of Social Architecture at There.com. I had the chance to have dinner with her and others at the online community summit and I'm glad to see she's taken the weblog leap.

From what I can tell, she just getting started, so I'm hoping a little promotion will help her keep blogging- I, for one, want to hear what she has to say.

It's Friday afternoon- take a break and read something funny.

The Onion comments on the blogs with the article: Mom Finds out About Blog

"With the raw materials in my blog, she could actually construct an accurate picture of who I am. This is (edited) serious."

"Really, the blog is just a record of what I think about the world and how I spend my free time," Widmar said. "In other words, exactly the sort of information that no 30-year-old wants his mom to have access to."

 

The Onion rocks.

If you have no idea what RSS is, go here.

Recently a reader sent me an email saying he had a wish for me. That wish was for me to change my RSS feed so that it included whole entries instead of just an excerpt. Being a user of a news aggregator myself, I knew exactly what he meant. It bugs me sometimes to have to visit a site to finish reading an entry. So, I set off to find out how…

I found a solution to the issue in the comments of this post at Electrolite. Apparently, there is another, more technical solution at Dive Into Mark.

Here is the simple change that helped me…

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1. Go the Templates in your Moveable Type application and notice that you have at least one “RSS�? template.

 

2. Open each template and look for “ – it’s near the bottom on the RSS 1.0 template.

3. Change that to “, Save and Rebuild.

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This should allow a news aggregator to see complete posts with links, formatting tags and all.