Muscling a Web Site Into a Social Movement
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Illegal immigrant ice cream vendors might be spreading leprosy in Manassas. Prince William County has been infiltrated by "unassimilated marxist radicals." Manassas Park police covered up the predations of five Hispanic men who gang-raped a woman in the street in June.
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Your online community can help fine-tune your products.
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TechWeb - The social networking site will soon provide all declared candidates who have set up MySpace pages with a click-on tool that allows visitors to pledge donations.
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We launched our new Web site yesterday--what do you think?
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Here's the new Reddit for Scripting News... http://reddit.com/r/scripting/  Please, if you're a regular reader of this site, bookmark it, and when you want to contribute a link to the community, add it there. Do the normal thing you do with Reddit or Digg, move articles up or down, according to your opinion of how relevant they are to the community defined by this weblog.  Warning: I will moderate, heavily if necessary, to keep it from being abusive or overly immature. Sorry for having to post the caveat, but you know how it goes.
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The PHPWomen have posted a reminder about the mailing list that they're going to "dust off" and start using again (and suggest you do too!).   There's just the one list currently (as hosted by omniti) but there's lots of subscribers. You can check out the signup page for more information on the list and get access to some of the archives of previous topics.
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Talk about your communications revolutions -- at no time in history has it been easier to share ideas with the masses. A decade after "weblog" enters the cultural vocabulary, the web publishing phenomenon continues to grow and change.
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Comment is free: Neal Lawson: The challenge is to seize the initiative and create a new public realm that enables a more equal world to take shape.
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Revamped website signals desire for broader customer base
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By Izwan Ismail  WEB administrators need to constantly look for ways to make their Web sites relevant to the people. This includes providing content that the people want and being user-friendly.
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Blog: Wis.dm launches. Social network site where members ask and answer yes and no questions. Could be useful for market research and targeted advertising.
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Community websites explained Building a configurable, flexible and highly interactive community web site from scratch is no mean feat. Get the technical implementation right and you might have a vibrant and active community coalesce around your site. Get it wrong and youâre left with dead web real-estate thatâs dressed right but is going nowhere. However, thanks to PHP-Nuke, most of the hard work has been done up front. And, for the would-be community site developer who doesnât have the time to read manuals, Packt Publishing has even taken the hard work out of figuring what to do post-installation.â¦
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People search that connects users to chat to find answers.
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There is an interesting post on OnLamp.com that mentions the search for a good wiki system. Read the post to find out why the author thinks that the wiki world "needs the kind of vision that will make the product more accessible, more polished, less prone to abandonment or neglect...", and the several comments that follow.
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Sam blogs about his wiki spam problems  and implements a posting throttle.  With new spam-capable zombie PCs and with wikis that aren't updated very often this isn't a solution.  If I were to go back to my wiki after a month it would be covered with spam links.  One strong solution is emergent and distributed social whitelists (AKA my FOAFKey  proposal).  With a FOAFKey enabled wiki/weblog you could allow a whitelist of a few hundred thousand users to post to the wiki without any problems.  All they would need to enter is their email address for confirmation (or the SHA1 hash of their email).  For the rare times when the user isn't within the original whitelist we can just have the user uplo ...
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Members of the social news site's community meet resistance as they attempt to out an anonymous group of no-goodniks. By NewAssignment.Net's David Cohn.
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Folksonomies Web 2.0 pioneers are taking personal control of how online content is organised, according to new research.â¦