Knowledge Jolt with Jack: Online participation numbers in detail
(tags: partcipation, social technographics, Forrester)

Web Mashups Turn Citizens Into Washington’s Newest Watchdogs -
(tags: Politics ,MashUp, web2.0, campaign 08)

A quick guide to citizen-mapped agency data sites
(tags: web2.0 , politics, resource)

Yahoo! Search Blog
(tags: Yahoo ,Search)

gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: update: san francisco geek dinner, tuesday night
“Blogging is not for everyone. Web 2.0 is for everyone….Web 2.0 is not about blogging, People. Web 2.0 is about Cheap & Easy.”
(tags: Blogging, web2.0, Hugh Macleod)

LH Top 10: USB thumb drive tricks - Lifehacker
(tags: hacks, tools, productivity)

Derek Powazek » Blog Archive » How to Moderate a Panel
(tags: communication, facilitation, Presentation , moderating)

MediaShift . Virginia Tech Shooting::Can Media Get Beyond Reactive Response to Tragedy? | PBS
(tags: crisis communications, mobile)

The Official CGM Glossary
(tags: cgm, definitions)

RSS in Plain English
2 kinds of people, those that use RSS and those that wish they knew how to
(tags: [...]

/Message: Andrew Keen: The New Naysayers
(tags: social media, blogging, cultoftheamateur)

Change the way you look at technology
(tags: Forrester, IT, business, technology)

Buzz Marketing for Technology: One Bad Blog Can Kill You
(tags: ORM)

Google Ranked “Most Powerful Brand” By BRANDZ
(tags: google, Brands, branding)

Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff released a new research  report today called Social Technographics that expands upon their research and writing on social computing and the ROI of Blogging; in this report they are taking about levels of participation, what they call the particpation ladder.
The message is for corporations, advertisers, or anyone trying to [...]

Millward Brown Optimor announced today that according to their second annual BrandZ survey of the top 100 Brands, Google is the number one most powerful brand. This translates to a brand value of $66, 434 million. Following behind Google were GE, Microsoft and Coke.
 Valleywag notes that Business 2.0 asked just last week, "Why Can’t [...]

Personas (introductions, tutorials, articles, case studies, and references) » Thinking and Making (Thinking and Making)
(tags: personas)

First user-facing Twitter feature (Scripting News)
(tags: twitter, opml, blogging)