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.