"World wide webs: Diasporas and the international system
Why blog? Self-interest as motivation...
An obvious question for people taking my Intro to Weblogs module is "Why blog?" The obvious answer from my perspective is "Because you get more out of it than you put in." In PR Strategy we are looking at persuasion, and recognising that self-interest is one of the most powerful forces PR can harness.
Source Camps Replication Materials
a new resource - http://replication.tacticaltech.org
We would like to announce that we have just finished a new resource. A resource that we hope all of you might like, it is called the 'Source Camp Replication Materials'. It is a website where you can find information, templates, tips and secrets about organising Source Events.Congratulations:
2500 Postings for Mavi Boncuk
Mac, IE6 and Parallels
I’m quite proud of never having owned a PC. Since a BBC B micro, I moved to a Mac Performa 400 in 1994, then on to an original iMac in 1998, a slot loading iMac, an iBook and now a PowerBook G4. Yet for the last 5 months I’ve faced a problem: working as a website designer doing more and more complicated projects I’ve kept on coming across a series of bugs with Internet Explorer on PCs - specifically relating to CSS and how webpages display. As you can see in Google there are plenty of bugs out there… Microsoft discontinued IE for Mac ages ago, and any Mac user has a choice between the very good Safari and excellent Firefox, both of which render webpages correctly. But testing pages for those PC users was a bit of a pain.
World wide webs: Diasporas and the international system (PDF; 893 KB)
Source: Lowy Institute for International Policy
On 18 February, the Lowy Institute launched Michael Fullilove’s new Lowy Institute Paper, World wide webs: Diasporas and the international system. In this paper, Michael argues that diasporas (communities which live outside, but retain their connections with, their homelands) are getting larger, thicker and stronger – with important implications for global economics, identity, politics and security. Michael compares diasporas to ‘world wide webs’ emanating from states, with dense, interlocking, often electronic strands spanning the globe and binding different individuals, institutions and countries together. World wide webs offers a fresh take on globalisation which raises difficult questions for national governments, including the Australian government.
Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy.
Close of Wikileaks website raises free speech concernsA US judge's move to close the dissident site Wikileaks only showed the limits of enforcing national laws in cyberspace.
Can a new filtering program cure the Web's information overload?
Social-Good Networking::Facebook Becomes Catalyst for Causes, Colombian FARC Protest
This morning, I received a notification on my Facebook profile that said if I sent a virtual plant to some of my friends, I’d help them “save the Earth.” If you’re a Facebook user, you probably wonder how much the incessant pleas by certain applications on the site might actually “change the world.” Modules built to help you attack your friends with zombies don’t seem like a very good use of one’s time, much less do they have an impact on anything important.
Digging Deeper::Gadfly 2.0: How One Investor Used Social Media to Shake Up Yahoo
Ebay, Wikipedia, and Digg: Why Self-Rule on the Internet Will Not Work
If over the last decade you have read any of the many books and articles promoting the Net as a new world where people are able to form self-regulating, super-democratic communities, you have no doubt come across glowing descriptions of eBay’s feedback system. By providing buyers and sellers with a simple means for rating one another, eBay has been able, we’ve been told, to avoid lots of rules and regulations and other top-down controls. The community, built on trust and fellow-feeling, essentially manages itself. Tom Friedman, in his book The World Is Flat, voiced the common opinion when he called eBay a “self-governing nation-state.”
Why Google Rules?
Hal Varian, who is generally someone worth listening to, has a post up on the Google Blog about why he thinks his company (yes, he works for Google) continues to dominate the market. After dismissing economies of scale, lock-in, and network effects, he goes on to say:
Blogger wins major journalism award
Blogger Joshua Micah Marshall, editor and publisher of the widely read political blog, Talking Points Memo, has won the Polk Award for Legal Reporting, a major journalism award that for the first time has been given to a blogger. …What Will We Learn From Emerging Maps of Social Networks?
Back in the heady days of the mid 1990s, when we were first starting to understand the linkages between the online world of the Web and the offline world of offices, homes, school, stores and entire cities, a number of scholars started trying to create maps of Internet infrastructure and the flows of data it carried. Martin Dodge, then at University College London's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, and now at the University of Manchester, compiled the best collection of these early maps at his Atlas of Cyberspace, now archived.
Internet Outage in Pakistan
From the OpenNet Initiative blog..."This was a dark weekend for the Internet community in
The Net Remembers, for Good and Bad
I have a column running on the Guardian’s website today. It’s entitled “Freedom of information” — and is reprinted below:
What does a Swiss bank that does business in the Cayman Islands have in common with a Hong Kong actor who jets around the globe? They are object lessons this month in a reality that anyone handling information needs to understand. Like toothpaste squeezed from a tube, information, once out in the wild, is all but uncontainable.
Citizen Media Business Issues: Review and Comparison
(This is the ninth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent area of the Center for Citizen Media web site. To that end, your comments, additional examples, and criticisms are welcome and will be invaluable contributions to this process.)
Why Google Buys Companies
Watching Google from the outside – with the limited information that offers – it seems they buy companies mainly to get more:
Are Google and online advertising vulnerable to a recession?
As the U.S. moves into a possible economic slowdown, partially caused by the subprime mortgage meltdown, the question is whether the pain will spread to online advertising. Online ads have been booming since the dot-com bust ended around 2003, with 20%+ growth every year.Berkman Centers Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic Challenge Injunctions Against Wikileaks and Dynadot
The Berkman Center's Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) and Cyberlaw Clinic have joined a coalition of media and public interest organizations in filing an amici curiae brief urging a federal district court judge to reconsider his orders shutting down Wikileaks.org, a site that is developing what it describes as an "uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis."Ted2008: Debating the Role of the Media
In a first for TED, BBC is hosting The World Debate live from Monterey. This is something not uncommon at other global conferences like the World Economic Forum at Davos. But it’s new here, and the room full of TEDsters are getting used to the idea that the events in the room are live, to 85 million people worldwide, and will be streamed, recorded, and broadcast via audio to the amazing array of places BBC reaches....
Analyze the debate transcript the Web 2.0 way
The idea of Web 2.0 encourages the use of rich user interfaces to enable highly dynamic user interaction. The New York Times online is showing off a very interesting Web application for reading the transcript of a Democratic Debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
