Posted on 17 May 2008 by r
I attended a very interesting lecture “Social Networks and the Good Society” presented at Northwestern University by Cass Sunstein, Siva Vaidhyanathan, and Eszter Hargittai. While I planned on liveblogging, I brought only a notepad. (grr!) Since my notes don’t include many direct quotes, but instead I summarize, all errors in my lecture notes are my own, and [...]
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Posted on 6 April 2008 by r
The ownership issues involving Superman have always been contentious but not factually disputed — two teenagers created Superman and then sold their rights for a miniscule amount. Litigation ensued in bursts for decades, with the original creators dying and their heirs taking up their cause, and the owner/licensor of Superman, Warner Bros/ Time Warner, making [...]
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Posted on 24 March 2008 by r
So which group is the new Carrie ‘n’ friends?*
You’ve likely never watched either of the “new Sex in the City” shows this season, Lipstick Jungle and Cashmere Mafia. The only difference in substance I’ve figured out is that one has Lucy Liu, the other has Brooke Shields – and they both seem more like the [...]
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Posted on 31 January 2008 by r
Dan Gillmor on the Center for Citizen Media blog writes about the good and bad about online group-based participation.
The good happens when community is created and supported:
People do things for many reasons, but it’s always about getting something of value back. The value may be a psychic reward of doing something good for someone else. [...]
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Posted on 15 January 2008 by r
If you are trapped in the modality of “you are such a sell-out!” then two of the biggest YouTube success stories, Chocolate Rain and OK Go are nothing more than sell-outs.
OK Go created a video for their song “Here It Goes Again,” (first video above) featuring the band doing a synchronized dance routine on treadmills [...]
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