grist http://www.jedmiller.com/ internet, media and other preoccupations en-us 2010-07-22T08:47:10-05:00 dying social 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 truth in advertising 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 fifa in realtime web http://www.jedmiller.com/grist/archives/000302.html from twitter... JM 2010-06-17T15:56:06-05:00 against twiumphalism 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 what's an evangerealist? 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 todd b. 2010 - the threequel 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 dismissed as chance! 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 o, thou cache 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 citizen.gov a threat to vendors? 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 crying foul about crying foul 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 some evangerealism on government 2.0 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 hope doesn't always float 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 pentagon "strategic communications" plan for web is neither 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 EMK: a life under pressure 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 whose chopper is this? 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