Dan Farber points to a promotional page about a $279 Forrester report called, “Social Technographics®
Mapping Participation In Activities Forms The Foundation Of A Social Strategy.” The report (which I don’t plan on purchasing) reminds me of Ross Mayfield’s blog post (free) from last year regarding the ‘power law of participation.’ Which, come to think of it, reminds of things Howard Rheingold has been writing about since silicon was called dirt.

I am currently digging through decade-old Power Points looking for my ancient cribbing of Howard’s writing that I unfortunately failed to rebrand and register®.

Earlier links about “Social Technographics®”: Steve Rubel, Ross Mayfield, Phil Wolff (funny).

This week’s episode of the public radio program “To the Best of our Knowledge” (detail and streaming available here) focuses on “lessons in optimism and the science of happiness.” Against a backdrop of “global fatalism” and our “addiction to the belief that stories aren’t interesting unless they involve misery, corruption, suffering and death” == the show features some “radical optimists” and “hopeful rebels.” The hour is devoted to “evidence that the world is actually better off than you’d think.”

• The Big Shots Of Blogdom | BusinessWeek
  Quote: “It was in tech…that early blog adopters first cottoned to this hyper-niched, hyperlinked model. Among the most closely followed blogs are Arrington’s TechCrunch, Rafat Ali’s paidContent, and Om Malik’s GigaOM.
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