roots.lab

After trying to track down the details on Flickr’s position on blogging other people’s photos, I finally scored: Stewart Butterfield weighs in on a debate about this very issue.

Listed by region.

Important voice.

Big blogroll.

American Society of Landscape Architects

Huge list.

Weekly blog carnival.

Looks MUCH more useful than the last time I checked it out.

Tish Grier says: “When a company creates an online community … moderation is necessary to keep the inhabitants of that space safe from stupidity.” Not policing; just presence and attention.

Mostly about TwitterLocal’s leaderboard.

The next time a twitter pal live tweets a Barry Manilow concert, put the snooze on ‘im…

“a group of obvious, standard strategies to acquire users, and details about a couple of them.” I do love checklists.

“We are a group of bloggers who enjoy writing about journalism and related topics. We thought we would club together and set up this carnival.”

Nancy White, picking up where Brogan’s recent post left off, drops serious science gleaned from more than a decade of experience with this art.

Guffaw.

Lots of go-to links for newbies. Also, work.com looks interesting.

Brogan writes a job description for the community manager role — and I can’t think of 5 other people who’ve worked the role with the vigor and success he’s made of it. “When E.F. Hutton speaks, people listen….”

Brilliant service built off twitter API — grabs your “following” list, analyses for likely connections, presents you with a list. Results included MANY people I read in other contexts but hadn’t yet found in Twitter.

Exhaustive.

“Following are some sites that SEJ members have recommended as useful to any journalist covering environmental issues. Some are blogs, some forums; others are news sites, members’ sites or feeds.

The essential resource re ongoing honing of twitter apps, skills, etc.

Excellent twitter search tool — people, hashtags, “attitude”

Rundown of a flood of new tools for managing attention to the firehose.

Really happy to find this site. It’s clear that there’s a real effort afoot to protect Twitter and deal with spam followers. I’m getting a ton spam followers every day, and tho I don’t follow back for obvious reasons it bugs me that they’re tracking me.

We all like Dell’s IdeaStorm, but how’s a small team to do the user-feedback thing well? This could be a big help … “UserVoice adds structure to feedback, reduces the overhead of an honest dialog with users [and] creates a market around good ideas.”

What a wonderful community-created project! Kind of like JPG Magazine, but the theme being a specific place. Refreshing reminder of the core appeal of social software and web2.0.