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Obligatory Google Buzz post
Cross-posted to the Air-l list. In a discussion about Google Buzz, surveillance and privacy, Christian Fuchs said: Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently remarked about Internet privacy: “Ifyou have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnot be doing it in the first place”, which points towards a lack ofunderstanding of the online…
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Flussgeist & ambient intimacy
I’ve been playing around with various twitter mashups, tools and toys lately, and I just had to give this one a quick mention. Unusually for me, I am about to talk about some art… Gregory Chatonsky’s work L’attente/The Waiting (warning, Flash-heavy), part of a series called “Flußgeist”, the “spirit of the flow”, mashes up twitter…
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The Street as Platform (and the World as ‘Human Network’)
When as now I’m struggling with the agony of trying to write for publication, which means attempting to communicate carefully and clearly, and not unattractively (as opposed to ranting inadvisedly), encountering one of Dan Hill’s longer blog entries is without exception guaranteed to make me ever so slightly envious. The way the street feels may…
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Why I’m deleting my Facebook account
Update: 31 May 2010 This is by far the most visited post on my now-sleepy blog. It is also more than two years old. A lot of people are finding this post by searching Google for other people who are thinking about leaving Facebook. This is understandable given the recent surge of discontent among the…
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further to the myspace/facebook class debate
Ah, the La Boite Theatre (which by the way has a kind of populist/grass-roots brand image but is situated in the hyper-modernist, rational and shiny Creative Industries Precinct here at QUT). Perhaps we should applaud them for doing their bit to keep MySpace bourgeios. But then again, first an iPod on the cover of their…
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Community responses to changes at YouTube
In my last post, I discussed YouTube’s roll-out of language options and localization, and aired some concerns I have about its cultural implications. This morning I had a quick look to see how the YouTube community has responded to the move. I’m a bit surprised there isn’t more discussion, celebration, or protest than there is,…
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Localisation, YouTube and Flickr
Via BigMouth Media – well, actually via late-night YouTube browsing, followed by the now-familiar exclamation “Oh, look, YouTube’s changed something (in the middle of the night) again!”: YouTube has released localised versions of its video sharing website in nine countries around the world. The countries that are getting the special treatment are Brazil, France, Ireland,…
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more on conferencing twittering
In the ‘questions and comments’ section of the final plenary at MIT5, David Silver made two comments about how the conference might be improved next time. He presented us with two problems: 1. The incongruity of the conference theme and the conference format. That is, should a conference that was investigating collaborative forms of cultural…
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Brief MIT5 update
you know you’re at MIT when… I’m enjoying the MIT5 conference immensely, although it is very distributed – both temporally, with something like 11 parallel sessions – and spatially, with rooms dotted around a few different buildings with no common meeting area (but that’s just the layout of MIT). So catching up with people really…
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Wealth of Networks Wiki
This Wiki is an invitation to collaborate on building a learning and research environment based on Yochai Benkler’s book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, available under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Sharealike license. A good idea, and one that tests and amplifies the basic propositions of Benkler’s arguments. But…