Jonl is engaged in a very interesting conversation about “extreme democracy” at the venerable The Well. (The book Extreme Democracy, to which I contributed a chapter that I am now afraid to read is available for free here. (Since my chapter isn’t one of the numbered ones and I can’t get Acrobat working with Firefox this morning, I don’t know if my chapter is actually in the book.)) [Technorati tags: extremeDemocracy politics jonLebkowsky]

Richard Edelman, CEO of Edelman PR, pegs his latest post to a description of G. Washington in McCullough’s 1776. It’s awkward for me to talk about this because I consult to Edelman PR (Richard has never even hinted that I should talk about his blog, although the company probably likes it when I do) and Richard’s post says nice things about me. Nevertheless: at his blog you can see an established PR firm honestly wrestling with the big change in context the Web is bringing about. If you’ve worked in PR – I did inside corporations for 10 years – you know that the Web excites every inappropriate PR instinct. To traditional PR folks, the Web looks like an opportunity for doing near-zero-cost one-to-one marketing, abusing the Net’s anonymity to manipulate market conversations. In that context, Richard’s current post is all the more to be appreciated, since it acknowledges important limits and scouts for new directions that don’t disrupt the Web’s ecology. [Technorati tags: pr edelmanPR ]

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