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“In Teens’ Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year: Social Sites Find Fickle Audience” By Yuki Noguchi
“Teen Web sensation MySpace became so big so fast, News Corp. spent $580 million last year to buy it. Then Google Inc. struck a $900 million deal, primarily to advertise with it. But now Jackie Birnbaum and her fellow [...]

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Hack your way out of writer’s block | 43 Folders
A list of ways to get rid of writer’s block. Every single point is awesome.
(tags: writing)

Your Second Life is Ready - Popular Science
Stats about the economy.

(tags: secondlife thesis)

CIRCLE || Research & Information | Youth Civic Index
(tags: politics youth research)

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Edge; DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism By Jaron Lanier
(tags: thesis collaboration internet community)

The Hive
Fantastic exploration of Wikipedia.
(tags: thesis wikis collaboration)

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visualcomplexity.com | Mapping the Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election
(tags: personaldemocracy blogging election)

Wired News: Saving Democracy With Web 2.0
(tags: personaldemocracy transparency web2.0)

Video the Vote
(tags: personaldemocracy video election)

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Social Edge - Second Life and the Social Sector
(tags: secondlife thesis)

http://www.mydd.com/images/user/217/Use_It.htm
myDD wants you to ask you Democratic representative to “give 30% of their campaign funds to Democratic challengers and/or party committees.”
(tags: politics fundraising activism campaigns)

The Long Zoom - New York Times
Great article by Steven Johnson about one of the defining metaphors for our time.
(tags: maps [...]

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From Worldchanging:

The shuttle launch, seen from the International Space Station.

Tags: space, space shuttle, space station

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Darfur Watch
Nancy Scola’s site to track Darfur news.
(tags: africa darfur activism)

Europe’s Politicians Embrace Web 2.0 - Yahoo! News
A roundup of European politicians’ forays into blogging and podcasting.
(tags: personaldemocracy)

outside.in
Started by Steven Johnson, a localized way to organize the web.
(tags: locative_media blogging community)

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PopTech 2006: Dangerous Ideas, and Thinking About Networked Politics | Personal Democracy Forum
Micah’s rundown of PopTech 06
(tags: technology future)

Rheingold presentation in Second Life
(tags: secondlife thesis)

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