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Monthly Archives December 2006

Danah Boyd on being virtual

I’ve been talking a lot about Second Life lately, since my thesis (which, inshallah, I will finish in May) will center on using it as an activist platform. The idea is to model activist behavior in Second Life and to then export what I’ve learned to a real-world situation. This is being done [...]

Posted 16 December 2006 † Josh § general § media ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2006-12-15

Second Life: What are the real numbers?. Many-to-Many:
Shirky on gaming the numbers in Second Life
(tags: secondlife statistics)

Posted 14 December 2006 † Josh § links ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2006-12-14

HOPE Number Six
Privacy is Dead - Get Over It Revisited
(tags: social-networking blogging internet)

Posted 13 December 2006 † Josh § links ‡ Comments (0) °

Never relent.

Nicole and I were in Northampton over Thanksgiving. We stopped into a record store to browse and stumbled upon a box full of cassettes that cost 25 cents to a dollar each, and we had to indulge. We left with $3.50 worth of old tapes that we’ve been playing in the Volvo for [...]

Posted 12 December 2006 † Josh § general ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2006-12-12

Codev2:Lawrence Lessig
(tags: copyright technology internet)

Goggles4u ! Discount Eyeglasses Super Store
Cheap glasses!
(tags: eyewear)

Posted 11 December 2006 † Josh § links ‡ Comments (0) °

Blake Ross on the humanizing effect of the web

Blake Ross, the wunderkind developer behind Firefox, took a smart and humanistic look at the James Kim tragedy and the web’s ability to help us empathize with people we don’t know:

Those who argue that the media desensitize us underestimate the human spirit. We care as much as we ever have about our fellow people, but [...]

Posted 08 December 2006 † Josh § Internet § media ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2006-12-06

Plastic: Politics, Culture, Point Of View
(tags: blogs community culture)

Steven Johnson - Books - The Ghost Map - Report - New York Times
A good profile on Johnson, his new book, and outside.in.
(tags: writing maps locative_media)

Friends, friendsters, and top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites
(tags: Myspace social_software social-networking)

Posted 05 December 2006 † Josh § links ‡ Comments (0) °

links for 2006-12-05

Rhode Island’s Future
A group blog about Rhode Island politics.
(tags: politics blogging locative_media)

MAPLight.org | Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection
MAPLight.org brings together information on campaign contributions and votes in the California legislature. The first of its kind in the nation, MAPLight.org provides an unprecedented window into the connections between money and politics.
(tags: politics personaldemocracy transparency)

The Spotlight [...]

Posted 04 December 2006 † Josh § links ‡ Comments (0) °