Kevin Anderson, Blogs Editor @ Guardian.co.uk

Clay Shirky was in London this week promoting his new book, Here Comes Everybody: The power of organising without organisations. It was a great talk, and I blogged about it both at the Guardian's Technology blog but also on the digital media blog I write with my better half,… Continue

One of the things that I constantly try to reinforce here at the Guardian is that one of the crucial differences about blogs and really all social media - Twitter, Seesmic, social networks like this - is that we're trying to engage our audience. Participation and conversation is the goal. It's one of the things that separates the internet from print, and it's a strength that we should play to. From a technical standpoint, your CMS or blogging platform needs to make participation easy and highlig… Continue