http://www.jedmiller.com/ internet, media and other preoccupations en-us 2010-07-22T08:47:10-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000304.html Living Social ad on Pandora offering an NYC "Bucket List" of things to do before you die, with the site of the Twin Towers perfectly framed in the background. #fail... JM 2010-07-22T08:47:10-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000303.html Spread in this week's New York Mag. On the left, article on NY's no-fault divorce law, and how NY couples often need to concoct tales of adultery just to split up, and how for hundreds of years it's been women... JM 2010-07-01T22:13:43-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000302.html from twitter... JM 2010-06-17T15:56:06-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000300.html "... it is time to get Twitter's role in the events in Iran right," writes Golaz Esfandiari in Foreign Policy this week. Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran. As Mehdi Yahyanejad, the manager of "Balatarin," one of... JM 2010-06-12T14:42:37-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000299.html Internet evangerealists don't talk at you about what's possible, they talk with you about what's needed. They don't work with products, they work with people. They don't have wireless headsets, they have conversations. Evangerealists believe that there's nothing wrong with... JM 2010-06-04T14:35:16-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000296.html Birthday gift extravaganza for Todd, followed by a behind the scenes extra courtesy of Cane Man, Vaidila:... JM 2010-05-22T07:54:46-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000293.html Moments apart, two of my favorite evangerealists make beautifully similar points in unrelated posts: Gavin Clabaugh, shortly after panel at New America Foundation on how philanthropic data does, can or should change the world:@glcabaugh: Fading barriers: bandwidth, storage, crunch power,... JM 2010-05-10T21:34:52-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000292.html Project Manager in CA kept telling me the changes had been pushed live, but no matter how many times I refreshed or cleared my cache, they didn't show up. PM said "Methinks you have a caching issue?" My response below:... JM 2010-03-23T17:34:51-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000291.html A simple and potentially disruptive question from Andrea DiMaio on the Gartner blog: As governments embrace "bottom-up experimentation" online, is the traditional model of outside technology consulting viable? It's the next incarnation of the problem non-profits often have with vendors... JM 2009-12-23T15:12:30-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000290.html Cell phone users didn't need Verizon to tell us that AT&T's wireless service isn't as good as Verizon's. AT&T reinforced it themselves when all their ads boasted improved coverage after the merger with Cingular. But seeing AT&T get all whiny... JM 2009-11-22T14:22:46-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000288.html There's an article by me in the latest newsletter from the Citizen Services office of the General Service Administration. The issue is devoted questions of citizen participation in governance. I had the chance to interview some personal heroes of participatory... JM 2009-10-31T19:44:52-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000289.html Things I took away from the Balloon Boy debacle: The right story scales fast and now that people are channels it can scale really fast. Social networks scale a story best if it's a story that catches the imagination. It... JM 2009-10-20T21:59:23-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000287.html EurasiaNet reports a new $10M plan by the Pentagon to build foreign-language web sites in support of U.S. foreign policy. Let's count the ways that the plan, as described, is dopey: Ten million dollars?? Ten million dollars?? Do you know... JM 2009-09-29T23:44:39-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000286.html I am neither American royalty nor likely to ever be as accomplished as Ted Kennedy, but I felt unexpectedly connected to him yesterday when TV pundits were speculating about the crushing pressure he must have felt in 1962, when he... JM 2009-08-27T07:01:28-05:00 http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000285.html Like a good parent, a project manager needs to keep you focused without pressuring you so hard that you rebel. He or she inspires you to think more clearly and produce on deadline, but also lightens your load by thinking... JM 2009-08-25T18:38:40-05:00