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I just came across this excellent mind map of the “all things open and free” from Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation. Truly amazing.

Via collectivate.net.

Thanks DK!

This latest talk is a simplification of previous themes that Wesch has dealt with in his Digital Ethnography program at Kansas State. His An anthropological Introduction to YouTube is absolutely required viewing.

This overview, from Wesch’s keynote presentation from Personal Democracy Forum 2009, includes choice keyphrases like “context collapse,” “the freedom to experience humanity without fear [...]

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A Webliography is an interesting idea: annotate a book with hyperlinks and whatnot. Thankfully someone took the time to do just that for Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. Follow this link for an amazing list of online references.

Want to annotate any Web page on the Internet? And see other’s comments? Reframeit!, a browser plugin, does the trick. Now let’s see if too much commenting democracy will lead to a hoard of trolls taking over the commons, or if it will reveal intelligent collective wisdom.

From high tech to low tech, Scott McLoud (Understanding Comics) penned for google a fascinating comic-style tour of Chrome’s development. Damn those google guys are smart!

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Michael Wesch has created some of my favorite YouTube videos about the current technology zeitgeist. The Chronicle of Higher Education did this pretty cool article and video (posted above).

I thoughtful and interesting treatise on how we read online (and tips for (not) blogging too!).

How we read online. – By Michael Agger – Slate Magazine:

You’re probably going to read this.
It’s a short paragraph at the top of the page. It’s surrounded by white space. It’s in small type.
To really get your attention, I should [...]

MC Lars does “Download this Song.”

Via Henry Jenkins

YouTube just announced on its blog a new citizen journalist initiative, which is described above by YouTube News & Politics manager Olivia M. I have to admit that the whole style and approach of the press release is interesting because normally it’s traditional media companies who try to hip-ify themselves through remediating (appropriating) the style [...]

Does information want to be free? A case study in how to control the Internet.
Great Wall 2.0: How China Leads the World in Web Censorship – International – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News:
The virtual People’s Republic abides by other laws than the rest of the Internet. But how do the communist sentinels of cyberspace manage to [...]

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No doubt about it. The media world is changing as we know it. And guess what? It isn’t white.
PS I recommend clicking through to Slideshare in order to view the presentation full screen.

The Surveillance Camera Players doing tactical media.

One of my favorite media theorists, Geert Lovink, wrote the indispensable Dark Fiber, a collection of critical essays published by MIT about media activism and networks. His discussion of tactical media as an alternative to culture jamming is why I put any kind of media activism under that category [...]

Want a company Web site for nothing? Ad agency Modernista has come to the realization that hosting Web sites is unnecessary when you can distribute your content across the Web. Why not? Host your images at flickr, network with Facebook, put your company information on Wikipedia and make Google your home page. Conceptual, geeky, or [...]

Graphic via textually.org
I’ve noticed an increasing pop culture awareness that we are addicted to our networked technology gadgets– a no, duh kinda revelation– but I was quite surprised (well, not really, it was inevitable) to see it pathologized with a new term, “Disconnection Anxiety.” I think the term sums up our entire planetary situation, actually, [...]

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, is a Silicon Valley veteran at a mere 36 years of age. His latest pride, Ning, is a place were you can start your own social network. I think it’s an awesome idea. There already is one for media literacy, created by Understand Media’s Nick Pernisco.
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The following news item interested me because of the manner in which a court order instructed the shutdown of Wikileaks.org. It’s instructive of how difficult it is to “kill” a Website when in a distributed environment.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Whistle-blower site taken offline:
Wikileaks.org… main site was taken offline after the court ordered [...]

Crossroads of Web, credibility full of potholes — chicagotribune.com:
Earlier this week, the Tribune shut down comment boards on its Web site for all political news stories. It also took down comments on an opinion column about Muslims, and on a story about the Illinois governor and a story about a violent crime in which a [...]

I’m cribbing notes from Rising Voice’s David Sasaki who wrote an excellent roundup of how the Web is a tool for Kenyan activists to document the current crisis.
Ushahidi is an organization that is combining SMS alerts of Kenyan violence with google maps that gives a timeline of civil incidents but also a way to map [...]