We all know blogs are here to stay and can have a significant impact in advocacy and campaigns. But have you wondered why?

David Perlmutter, Professor of Communications at the University of Kansas wondered just how a medium for personalized communication rose from obscurity and fringe status in the late 90s to power, influence and popularity today.

Hello All: I’m Scott Fine, the new Netcentric Advocacy Coordinator here at Netcentric Campaigns.

Hmm. I could imagine a traditional organizer interviewing the folks organizing the astronomy research at Oxford.

I was just reading some interesting information about agent-based modeling. They look at flocks. They are working on how to get computer animated icons to behave like a flock. The interesting thing is that there are three rules that drive the behavior and the way a flock of birds moves:

1. All birds try and fly towards the center.

White Oak conservation reserve in FL. Testing the new typepad plug in for the phone.

When Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert challenged his viewers to "Make McCain Exciting" he opened up a new fora for political commentary.

We've been pulling together some tips on "speed geeking" for a training Marty is doing in New Orleans this weekend. Speed geeking is a lot like speed dating, but the dates chew over technical or strategic challenges instead of life goals and turnon/offs.

Clay has been doing great work tracking a few of those cases that many of us interested in network-centric advocacy like to watch. We watch them because many people worry about the "staying power" of a network vs an institution. Many people think the organization is the only mechanism for fighting the long drawn out fight.