• SF Chronicle: Communities Rule, at NetSquared Citizen empowerment is the watchword at the NetSquared conference at Cisco Systems' offices in San Jose today and tomorrow. Average Joes (and Jills) are taking over media, marketing, software, and just about anything else where modern computing tools are applied.  NetSquared, the work of San Francisco's CompuMentor, is applying those lessons for nonprofits, who are crowding the halls and taking copious notes. The new hallmarks of community-generated content, open source software, and viral marketing have what many of the folks here see as world-changing potential. [SF Chronicle]
  

• MSNBC: Can Web 2.0 Change the World? One of the more influential technology conferences of the year took place two weeks ago in Silicon Valley, but you saw hardly a word about it in the mainstream media. Perhaps that’s because it lacked the sizzle of newly-rich entrepreneurs and venture capitalist king-makers — but what it lacked in glitter it made up for in world-changing potential. [MSNBC]
  

• Red Herring: Writing Your Own NewsCitizen journalism is not really journalism, said panelists Tuesday at a conference about social applications of technology. Rather than “self-imposed impartiality,” as self-titled “recovering journalist” and citizen media guru Dan Gillmor put it, web publishing tools offer the opportunity for people to speak in their own voices. [Red Herring]
  

• Democracy Now: Citizen Journalism - A Look at How Blogging is Changing the Media Landscape from the Congo to Korea Democracy Now! is broadcasting from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California where the inaugural TechSoup NetSquared Conference is being held. The theme of this year’s conference is “Remixing the web for social change.” It’s bringing together representatives from the technology and non-profit sectors to talk about new ways of using the web and technology for social ends. [Democracy Now]
  

• Wired News: Saving Democracy with Web 2.0 At BarCamp, SuperHappyDevHouse, NetSquared and other hacker get-togethers, scores of entrepreneurs and engineers arrive eager to collaborate, make information easier to share and use, and mobilize groups for effective action. [Wired]

• Lotus Media: Whew NetSquared was one of the best conferences I’ve been to in years. I kept having experiences that were so interesting I wanted to blog about them but the coolness didn’t stop and I was torn between doing cool stuff and blogging about it. (Yes I am a geek!) There were just as many cool people as at other conferences, but less chaff. [Lotus Media]
  

• The Corner: It's So Cool to Be in a Place that Looks Like Heaven Being at NetSquared captures a sense of the beloved community that I so often yearn for. At lunch today, I sat next to someone from literally half the world away - a person doing extraordinary work to race a scourge of death on the African continent.  She is here, soaking up ideas from others - she is here, to be lifted up and celebrated - she is here, because what she is doing teaches all of us in the "developed" world.  Most importantly, she is here because NetSquared paid her way to come here. [The Corner]
  

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