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  Encyclopedia: Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold at the Ars Electronica in 2004
Howard Rheingold (born July 7, 1947 in Phoenix, Arizona) is a leading thinker on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communications media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing).
Rheingold was born to Geraldine and Nathan Rheingold.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Howard-Rheingold   (806 words)

  
 Testimony of Howard Rheingold
Rheingold is being 24 offered here as an expert witness, he is not a plaintiff in 25 this action, but it's not entirely clear to the Government 122 1 how his opinion is at all useful or helpful to the Court in 2 understanding the evidence or determining any factual issues 3 here.
Rheingold is being offered for the purpose 23 of describing that sector of cyberspace and his declaration 24 suggests that that section of cyberspace, the community- 25 forming, the friendship-forming part will in fact be affected 123 1 by the Act.
Rheingold, would you please tell the Court what a 14 virtual community is? 15 A A virtual community is a group of people who meet through 16 on-line discussions and through those on-line discussions 17 form individual relationships and often, but not always, 18 continue those relationships into the face-to-face world.
www.ciec.org /transcripts/April_1_Rheingold.html   (6400 words)

  
 Howard Rheingold -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Howard Rheingold (born July 7, 1947) is a leading thinker on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communications media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and (additional info and facts about virtual communities) virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing).
Rheingold was born to Geraldine and Nathan Rheingold in (additional info and facts about Phoenix, Arizona) Phoenix, Arizona.
Rheingold lives in (additional info and facts about Mill Valley, California) Mill Valley, California with his wife and daughter.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/howard_rheingold.htm   (461 words)

  
 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2003
Rheingold is the author of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, which asserts that "Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation.
The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive." Rheingold discusses both the positive and negative aspects of smart mobs in his keynote address.
Notes Rheingold, "I couldn't help noticing that so many people on the streets of Tokyo in early 2000 were looking at their telephones instead of listening to them.
conferences.oreillynet.com /cs/et2003/view/e_sess/3752   (380 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, revised edition: Books: Howard Rheingold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rheingold covers the haphazard history of the Net, not missing the irony of its roots in a Defense Department project (though here his discussion gets relatively technical and acronym-packed), and he examines how it operates overseas, particularly in Japan and France (where the government-sponsored network is dominated by sex ``chat'').
Howard Rheingold is the most important lens through which the entire culture of the Virtual Community and Virtual Environment dynamics should and can be seen.
Rheingold provides a comprehensive, broad sweeping portrayal of the virtual communities landscape, particularly as it was in the early 1990s.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262681218?v=glance   (1952 words)

  
 OJR article: Moblogs Seen as a Crystal Ball for a New Era in Online Journalism
The event was particularly resonant for author Howard Rheingold, who predicted in his book "Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution" that advances in technology would soon give everyone the tools they need to publish independent reports of news events as they are happening directly to the Web and other platforms.
Rheingold's prediction: The answer is being formed today, and moblogging "is one of the leading indicators to watch as the shape of the new mediasphere becomes visible...
In the United States, the Howard Dean campaign emerged to the surprise of the majority of pundits because it used Internet-based organizing media such as a blog, Meetup.com, for early Dean enthusiasts to self-organize, and online fund-raising political e-commerce to the tune of $700,000 in one day.
www.ojr.org /ojr/technology/1057780670.php   (1689 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution: Books: Howard Rheingold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rheingold not only attributes everything to a fault, he also has the bad habit of explaining where he interviewed each person, what they ate, what funny thing the interviewee had in their office.
Howard Rheingold brings us a really nice set of actual examples--combined with his own unique insights--that provide the basis for next-generation communications strategies as what had been cohesive groups fragment into a foam of indivduals united (only) by this moments current interest and the task at hand.
Rheingold's journalistic style kept the topics easy to understand, interesting to read, and fairly light hearted in spite of some rather daunting conclusions that one could draw from his research.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0738208612?v=glance   (2347 words)

  
 Reason: Is That a Computer in Your Pants?: Cyberculture chronicler Howard Rheingold on smart mobs, smart environments, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rheingold has spent more than two decades at the intersection between the cyberculture and the counterculture, including a mid-’80s stint as one of the hosts of the WELL, a Whole Earth—sponsored venture that was one of the most successful early online communities.
Howard Rheingold: The whole notion of "community" is a vast, fuzzy semantic and political swamp.
Rheingold: One of the quotes in the book is that a side effect of this kind of future might be that nothing works and nobody knows why.
www.reason.com /0304/fe.jw.is.shtml   (4236 words)

  
 Head Butler - Books
RHEINGOLD: They already have in South Korea, thanks to ohmynews.com, an online newspaper with 26,000 "citizen reporters." When two schoolgirls were crushed by a U.S. Army vehicle, the country's conservative press downplayed the story.
RHEINGOLD: If you come up with a story like Trent Lott --- a front page story that starts to fade until bloggers take it up and millions of people watch the bloggers uncover Lott's past --- it may not matter much to Fox, because these people aren't likely to be Fox watchers.
RHEINGOLD: In these 2004 elections, there will be a much larger awareness of text messaging, then this behavior will spread deeper into our society.
www.headbutler.com /books/howard_rheingold.asp   (1017 words)

  
 frontwheeldrive.com: howard rheingold interview
Notwithstanding, Howard Rheingold is trying to give us a compass and a map, to help us navigate these times of speedy techno-social change and begin to understand where we're headed.
Extrapolating trends into an uncertain future, Howard Rheingold is attempting to help shape it with socially conscious dialogue.
Howard Rheingold: We've seen, at least twice before in the past two or three decades, the way the convergence of information and communication technologies have created new media that have had profound, widespread, and largely unpredictable effects.
frontwheeldrive.com /howard_rheingold.html   (2565 words)

  
 Floridata's Celebrity Gardener - Howard Rheingold
Howard lives in Marin County, California, where his garden is situated just north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
Howard writes: "I must confess that my two greatest loves have to do with direct sensual pleasure on my part: Being barefoot on my lawn, and eating fruit fresh off my own trees.
These days Howard describes himself a "professional virtual community builder" and is the founder of ElectricMinds.
www.floridata.com /tracks/CelebrityGardeners/Howard_Rheingold.htm   (460 words)

  
 Mindjack Magazine - the mind of Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold: Yes, I think you are making a category error.
Then I started working the press, figured out what they wanted and how it could draw attention to my writing, and by the time Electric Minds was launched, I had my fl belt in media self-promotion.
I went all-out on the "Howard as brand" thing, and discovered that Adam [an audience member] is right.
www.mindjack.com /interviews/howard4.html   (540 words)

  
 Digerati: The Citizen: Howard Rheingold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the fifteen years I have known him, Howard Rheingold has evolved from a modest, quiet, thoughtful working writer/editor into the flamboyant Howard "always ten years ahead of his time" Rheingold.
From his dazzling hand-designed shoes to his vividly colored suits and his TV ads for Kinko's, he has invented his own character-spokesman, communications expert, celebrity, lecturer, writer, thinker, wise man, one of the first people to recognize the potential of a new medium for human communication.
HOWARD RHEINGOLD is the author of Virtual Reality (1991), and The Virtual Community (1993), and was the editor of Whole Earth Review and the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog (1995).
www.edge.org /digerati/rheingold   (256 words)

  
 Edge: SMART MOBS
For nearly two years, Rheingold visited hotspots around the world where smart mob technologies and societies were erupting.
He is now sees a third wave of change underway in the first decade of the 21st century, as the combination of mobile communication and the Internet makes it possible for people to cooperate in ways never before possible.
Rheingold is the author of Virtual Reality, and The Virtual Community, and was the editor of Whole Earth Review and the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog.
www.edge.org /3rd_culture/rheingold/rheingold_print.html   (1761 words)

  
 Smart Mobs: Why are all blog commenting tools braindead?
Posted by: Howard Rheingold at February 25, 2004 01:28 PM This is some I've been dreaming about for a while too.
Posted by: Jeff Axup at February 28, 2004 01:25 AM Seb: Howard's misunderstanding of your mentioning of my solution is indicative of the problem with my solution: it is too conceptually complicated compared with a registration system and per user comment feed controls.
Posted by: Howard at March 11, 2004 04:42 PM It's funny reading this thread at a time when my colleagues in the Association for Progressive Communcations (APC) and I are discussing the future of the now defunct P-notes "conferencing" system.
www.smartmobs.com /archives/002704.html   (2402 words)

  
 PopTech, The Blog....
Howard Rheingold: "Any time you have a competition between something that requires a top-down infrastructure and between something that can grow virally from lots of individuals, the viral will win every time."
This is the first of several QandAs with speakers in advance of the PopTech conference Oct. 17-20, 2002, in Camden, Maine.
Rheingold spoke with journalist J.D. Lasica by phone on Sept. 12, 2002.
radio.weblogs.com /0113598/2002/09/19.html   (2291 words)

  
 Howard Rheingold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He explored the experience in his seminal book The Virtual Community.
Shortly thereafter, in conjunction with the Institute for the Future, Rheingold launched an effort to develop a broad-based literacy of cooperation.
A 48MB Quicktime movie of Howard Rheingold and Andrea Saveri outlining the Cooperation Project, licensed under Creative Commons, hosted by the Internet Archive
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Howard_Rheingold   (480 words)

  
 Howard Rheingold's blog - Toward a Literacy of Cooperation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Submitted by Howard Rheingold on Sat, 2005-02-12 00:51.
Submitted by Howard Rheingold on Sun, 2005-01-02 22:30.
This is where Howard Rheingold will post a set of notes from him and/or the other instructors, meant to supplement/summarize the week's topic.
cooperation.smartmobs.com /cs/blog/4   (726 words)

  
 Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold - Corante Buzz
Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs aims to answer that question in a best-selling new book in which he explores how "the convergence of the mobile telephone, personal computer, and Internet is already lowering thresholds for collective action" and how "this has potentially wider-ranging and more profound (and disruptive) implications than the PC or Internet revolutions alone."
Howard Rheingold concludes his conversation about Smart Mobs.
Howard Rheingold - author of Smart Mobs - shares more of his thoughts about what he's calling the "next social revolution" with Hylton Jolliffe of Corante.
www.corante.com /buzz/smartmobs   (338 words)

  
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www.technorati.com /tag/howardrheingold   (471 words)

  
 Howard Rheingold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In a recent Press Release from his agent PRI, Howard Rheingold is described as "a dynamic business technology and futurist speaker"; but Howard is much more than that.
Howard Rheingold is a 'netizen', being a long-time member of the WELL, a computer conference system located in Sausalito, California.
Rheingold is also a member of and contributor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which was
www.journalism.sfsu.edu /www/spj/rheingld.htm   (240 words)

  
 Mindjack Magazine - the mind of Howard Rheingold
As we are bombarded with information, having those you trust around you to filter and extract the information, and transform it into appliable knowledge -is worth it's weight in gold.
Dan Richards: Howard, I've been thinking about what sort of questions might get us started off on the right foot.
Howard Rheingold: For some reason, probably rooted in genetics, I developed a taste for cooked raisins.
www.mindjack.com /interviews/howard1.html   (1019 words)

  
 Ray Ozzie And Howard Rheingold On The Future Of Online Collaboration: Kolabora Live! The Competitive Edge - Online ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Howard Rheingold is the author of SmartMobs, a best-seller book about the impact of new media communication technologies on society and on the emergence of smart collective behaviours by individuals using them.
Taking him around the city on my "motorino" I had some of the best hours I had had in a long time, because, as you well know, when you can share beauty with someone who can fully appreciate it, it is great joy for both.
This time, with the help of Ray and Howard the focus will be on social issues, changes in work modes, lifestyle and other aspects of new media technologies directly affecting the way we work and communicate with each other.
www.kolabora.com /news/2004/06/21/ray_ozzie_and_howard_rheingold.htm   (1145 words)

  
 Joho the Blog: [ETech] Opening Session: Howard Rheingold
Rather than rehashing his excellent Smart Mobs, Howard is urging this group of techheads to keep the Net free and use it to spread freedom to the real world.
I ask: Since the default is about to flipped from anonymity to identity, what about digital ID? Howard: We need to know who we're talking with although not necessarily tie it back to a real world identity.
Howard replies that so long as they act in a trustworthy way, we don't need more ID than that.
www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/001431.html   (368 words)

  
 Howard Rheingold on 'new economic system'
And if you haven't done it before, don't forget to visit the Smart Mobs Weblog and to read a previous interview of Rheingold about the US presidential election of 2004, "A Major Change in the Political Equation."
Here are selected excerpts of what Rheingold says.
Rheingold adds that these trends will produce a new economic system, but that lots of companies, especially in the media business, will resist changes.
www.primidi.com /categories/sidebars/2004/08/11.html   (453 words)

  
 Technology For A New Economic System By Howard Rheingold & Robert D. Hof
With his last book, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, in 2001, the longtime observer of technology trends made a persuasive case that pervasive mobile communications, combined with always-on Internet connections, will produce new kinds of ad-hoc social groups.
Now, he's starting to take the leap beyond smart mobs, trying to weave some threads out of such seemingly disparate developments as Web logs, open-source software development, and Google.
At the same time, Rheingold is worried that established companies could quash such nascent innovations as file-sharing -- and potentially put the U.S. at risk of falling behind the rest of the world.
www.countercurrents.org /economy-rheingold180804.htm   (1301 words)

  
 TheFeature :: It's All About The Mobile Internet
When I wrote Smart Mobs in 2001, the technopolitical outbreaks I cited included the 1999 anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle, where mobile-phone equipped protestors used swarming tactics to out-maneuver the, and the 2000 Manila "People Power II" demonstrations in that gave birth to the legend of "Generation TXT" and signaled the end of the Estrada regime.
Since the book was published, however, the election of President Roh in South Korea, the emergence of the Howard Dean candidacy in the USA, the SMS-organized demonstrations in Madrid in the wake of the March 11, 2004 terrorist bombings (and on the eve of the election), are headline events.
In the Philippines, a million citizens used SMS to organize street demonstrations that helped topple the Estrada regime.
www.thefeaturearchives.com /100479.html   (1033 words)

  
 Ray Ozzie And Howard Rheingold On The Future Of Online Collaboration: Live Videocast Presented By Robin Good - Robin ...
Ray Ozzie, the man behind Lotus Notes and Groove and Howard Rheingold, author of the best selling book SmartMobs, will be both connected in a live audio-video conference over the Internet, sponsored and organized by Kolabora, the online authority on online collaboration.
Ray Ozzie And Howard Rheingold At The Next Competitive Edge: Next Tuesday At Kolabora Live!
New trends and approaches to work, communication and collaboration are gradually emerging as more and more people are taking up seriously the potential offered by the many affordable new real-time conferencing technologies.
www.masternewmedia.org /news/2004/06/29/ray_ozzie_and_howard_rheingold.htm   (571 words)

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