This morning, prominent author and futurist Howard Rheingold launched ELECTRIC MINDS (http://www.minds.com), an online destination where experts and knowledge seekers gather to share news, analysis and opinion about technology, science, computers and their affect on peoples' lives. We are inviting individuals and users at technology and social computing sites to participate and share a common vision with us, as developing community is
essential to long-term success of the Web and loyalty and connection between people is as important as ideas and information. By balancing content and online conversation, Electric Minds is driving the evolution of the Web from a publishing medium into a social medium - the Social Web.
We are *not* just a magazine online - who would care?! We are a living, breathing, dynamic community where some of the smartest thinkers from around the Net will come each day to discuss, debate and connect with ideas, visions and news of our brave new Web world. More than product reviews or digital fashion, Electric Minds is about meaning and context.
Recently, Jerry Michalski of Release 1.0 commented, "Most Web sites create content, context or conversations. Few do any worthwhile integration of all three elements, and none enrich the combined materials over time, and turn them into long-lived resources for use in other media. Electric Minds is the first company I have seen that is creating such an environment. Because
it combines crafted points of view, snappy conversations and links to other such conversations across the Net, its system should have broad appeal."
As a virtual community, we combine content from high-profile contributors with facilitated conversations using Web conferencing systems. Contributors for the site include HTML guru Laura Lemay, VRML co-creator Mark Pesce, former San Francisco Chronicle online commentator Bob Rossney, Virtual Reality author and Silicon Graphics VR evangelist Linda Jacobson and many others of similar repute. Rheingold himself wrote the bestselling book, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, which sold
100,000 copies in 6 languages. Furthermore, we are a global family, as we have contributors from Japan, Australia, France, Germany, England and across the US giving street-level reports on technology and digital culture as it happens. We are part university, part laboratory, part magazine and part thinktank.
We look forward to your participation, feedback and enthusiasm in our new adventure - see you there!
The Electric Minds Team
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