11 responses

• Jim Cowie Apr 15, 2008
   

  "Today I understand that the impossible is coming into range." He's right. As large numbers of people get these tools under control, we'll finally see something more productive than flashcrowd performance art and friendless million-friend networks. The most expensive part of having an organization -- the getting organized part -- is about to go to zero cost, and the pool of people you can reach is now broad enough that the effects will be empowering for average people and transformative for society.

   
• jessica Apr 15, 2008
   

  Dan shares some great and practical uses of Web 2.0 technology. I often hear people say, "That's great, but how can I use it?" when talking about various tools.

   
• todd Apr 15, 2008
   

  damn. y'all built it up and it was so disappointing. all that coordination and potential used to.... end hunger? nope. get rich? nope. raise the awareness of some critical cause? not at all. it was all used to make a zombie flick (and from appearances a bad one). i'm not impressed.

   
• smckenzie23 Apr 15, 2008
   

  Zombie flicks are pretty important. Don't discount the social significance of zombie flicks. When the zombies come, you better hope a neighbor or someone has been watching zombie movies is prepared with a stockpile of shotguns and axes.

   
• todd Apr 15, 2008
   

  mmm. Brains!

   
• jhota Apr 15, 2008
   

  so we made a zombie flick. that's what we wanted to do. if someone else wants to save the world, they can do that: the same technologies that made this happen can make anything else happen that takes group effort. baby steps, man. baby steps. (and it's SUPPOSED to be a BAD zombie flick).

   
• japee Apr 16, 2008
   

  I do my part for world hunger, healing the sick, mentoring kids, raising funds for cancer and heart disease during the week. I earned my Zombie brunch. Brains. Mmmmm.

   
• todd Apr 16, 2008
   

  jhota: i take your point. i just thought the leadup idealistic comments by jim and jessica were overblown.

   
• Jim Cowie Apr 16, 2008
   

  overblown. pfft. you know, I know another man who started making zombie movies, and ended up changing the free world. that man's name .. is Nelson Mandela. And now you know ..... the rest ... of the story.

   
• todd Apr 16, 2008
   

  and he is *still* on the US Govt's terror watch list. Because he's a terrorist. duh.

   
• jessica Apr 16, 2008
   

  Watch out. I think I've seen one of those zombies trolling around Babbledog.