Monday, September 8, 2008

Community v. Content

I've said before that we community wonks could find ourselves without much leverage if we don't get involved in creating content.

I figured the best way to get involved would be the old-fashioned way, so I wrote this thingy for MSNBC.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25852407

testing out a widget

Clearspring seems to be doing some interesting stuff with widgets. I'm investigating further.

I've been talking about the "atomization" of content online since anyone would listen back at ConsumerReports. It's interesting to see the different forms of that atomization and the different filters for drawing that content together.