Eric Rice is the co-founder of Hipcast, formerly known as Audioblog.com.
He is a prolific podcaster and an active evangelist for personal media creation.
I ran into Eric at the South by Southwest festival, recognized his name and voice from appearances on a number of different podcasts and asked him to do an interview with me. READ MORE
Having a little trouble uploading our This Week in NetSquared News podcast to the NetSquared Odeo Channel today. Sent in a customer service email, but I'm guessing that all the Odeo folks are busy having fun right now in Austin at SXSW Interactive, so it might be a while . . . READ MORE
The roster of NetSquared Advocates continues to grow and diversify, & we're proud to welcome two new supporters: Stuart Gannes & Karen Coppeck of Stanford's Digital Vision Program.
In early 2002 Gannes was recruited by Stanford University as the inaugural Director of the Digital Vision Program at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). Over the past two and a half years the DV program has evolved from an independent fellowship experience to an integrated prototyping course that focuses on technology innovation and social entrepreneurship. The goal is to support the design and concept-testing and sustainability modeling of technology solutions that address humanitarian needs in the developing world. READ MORE
And what does this popular page turn out to be? A tribute to the brilliant work that NetSquared's designer, Veerle Pieters, has done in redesigning her own blog. So brilliant, in fact, that somebody went to the trouble of documenting exactly how she accomplished her link rollover effect. READ MORE
I have been thinking a lot about building Online Community in the LongTail as part of my up-coming talk at Connecting Up 2006. I plan to 'think out loud' in the LearnDog REMIXED podcasts and invite you all to join the conversation through your own blogs and podcasts.
I've just updated the Net Squared case studies map on CommunityWalk and there are many more case studies of groups in Africa now! It's exciting to see where so many innovative nonprofits are located on a dynamic Google Map. I hope you'll check it out in case opportunity arises to refer to in place-based conversations about Net Squared. READ MORE
If you're going to SXSW, be on the lookout for some NetSquared folks: Billy Bicket, CompuMentor's Director of Strategic Development, Knowledge Services, (pictured left with Marnie Webb), and NetSquared blogger and interviewer extraordinaire, Marshall Kirkpatrick (pictured below). If you'd like to meet up with either of them, just email net2 AT techsoup.org.
Billy and Marshall will also be meeting up with Alexandra Samuel whose company, Social Signal, built the NetSquared web site. She will be speaking Monday at 10am on a panel about Remixing Business for a Convergent World. If folks want to meetup with her, email her at alex AT socialsignal.com READ MORE
During MashupCamp, Yoz Grahame, of MySociety.org and Ning, demos a few projects he's helped build including WriteToThem and PledgeBank. WriteToThem empowers citizens in the UK to hold their elected officials accountable while PledgeBank is a resource for creating and pledging support for any idea, if enough people also support that idea. Yoz explains while giving a demo.
Adam Frey is one of the founders of Wikispaces.com, a popular hosted wiki service. A wiki is a web site that any authorized user can edit, where all previous versions of the site are visible and notification can be receieved whenever a change is made.
Wikispaces hosts wikis for a wide variety of communities and offers free premium hosting for K-12 educators. In the following interview Adam and I discussed his thoughts on optimal use and selection of a wiki. READ MORE
Eric Rice is the co-founder of 
If you're going to SXSW, be on the lookout for some NetSquared folks: Billy Bicket, CompuMentor's Director of Strategic Development, Knowledge Services, (pictured left with Marnie Webb), and NetSquared blogger and interviewer extraordinaire, 
Adam Frey is one of the founders of