Recently, there has been an extraordinary amount of sneering, dismissive media attacks on America's young people and the utility of the internet in politics. ... more

Project: Drum Major Institute
Here at Advomatic, we're getting pretty good at the whole widget thing. The data thing has been our forte for a while, but now there's the widgets that we keep nailing, and of course we're still pretty good at the whole the speaking truth to power thing. Let's discuss: The non-partisan... more

From praise to prizes to cash, Advomatic projects have been on a roll recently. It's a pleasure to offer this run down of some recent client-partners and the encomiums heaped upon their websites: ... more

Ever since NewsCorp put out that self-aggrandizing study on how MySpace is the best place ever to buy advertising, I've been thinking about what it means. The study was designed to double monthly advertising revenue from $30m to $60 and so much of the methodology is about brand identification... more

I've had difficulty explaining my networking concepts without resorting to some exasperated cliche like, "that's just how I think about it." Well, turns out that scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health are... more

Ray Oldenburg is an urban sociologist who writes about the importance of informal public gathering places. In his book The Great Good Place, Oldenburg demonstrates why these gathering places are essential to... more

China's "Netizens" number 130 million - and are growing 30% every year. Second only to the U.S., China is installing Broadband everywhere and internet cafes are the size of K-Marts and as abundant as Starbucks. In 2005, Dr. Guo Liang of the ... more

This is a great photo set from Steve Garfield. He was in the blogger meeting with Senator Edwards and... more

Over here at Future Majority, I answered a question about how one can make MySpace work. I brought up an example of "virtual-to-field back to virtual mobilization." The hugely unfunny and equally popular comic Dane Cook is the example.... more

Culture grows and spreads through environments organically. It evolves. When culture spreads via built environments, its evolution can be intelligently designed. Consider this example: What I know of as Lindy Hop, that athletic, exuberant, acrobatic dance, was essentially invented at the... more