Author: jon
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#diversityfail: Guys talking to guys who talk about guys — and Chris Anderson’s FREE (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Work in progress! Update, July 9: my brother Greg of The Happy Accident had some great feedback on this draft: he didn’t know until the last paragraphs why he was reading it. Until then, it seemed like an attack on Alex — which wasn’t at all my intention.  Why we do drafts, chapter 1023…
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Iran, censorship, social networks — and hundreds of thousands of people risking their lives
“I think the filters and the restrictions have been going on for so long in Iran that the experienced people are already prepared for this,” said Jon Pincus, a former Microsoft project manager and digital activist who works on projects promoting online freedom. Iranians dodging internet censorship , Doug Gross, CNN The OpenNet Initiative’s Cracking down…
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We *can* do better: grassroots organizing against hate speech
TommyXtopher: Playboy Magazine Officially Hates Women, Conservative or Otherwise http://bit.ly/1aqcMe.* I hope other liberals join me in defending women, #tcot or not, from this crap. jointheimpact: AT&T Latest Advertiser To Leave KRXQ Confronted By Advertisers, Media and Community … UPDATE: McDonald’s Is 10th Company to Pull KRXQ Advertising http://bit.ly/ki7vc //zomg! Amazing! (via @Andy_Marra) nerdette: Join…
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Twittering in the Trenches: a workshop on social networks at #cfp09
Along with Deborah Pierce, Shireen Mitchell, and Ari Melber, I’m presenting n the Twittering in the trenches workshop today at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. If all goes well, it’ll be streamed at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cfp09 … and the Twitter hashtag is #cfp09. Deborah’s post on the CFP blog has some background. Check it out! I’ll be…
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Do they sell #skittles at #Starbucks? (DRAFT)
Work in progress. Feedback welcome! Starbucks’ recent social network ad campaign is a great illustration of the kinds of dynamics I’ve been talking about in the Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists series. In yet another example of Twitter’s buzz-creation power, the ad campaign got coverage in the NY Times and Time even before…
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#p2 and prioritizing diversity and empowerment (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Work in progress! Feedback welcome! Twitter is an opportunity to engage with communities currently marginalized by the “progressive blogosphere” — Tracy Viselli and Jon Pincus, The #p2 Hashtag and Strategies for Progressives on Twitter on The Exception #p2’s wiki, Twitter profile, and tagal.us entry all describe it as ” a resource for progressives who…
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#amazonfail and we’re not done yet: links and perspectives (UPDATED with new links)
Update, April 21: added some additional links here Amazon’s stock has recovered, bouyed by Friday’s report that Kindle sales have exceeded expectations. Traffic on the #amazonfail hashtag is much lighter. The auction for AmazonFail.com is over, at least for the time being. But I don’t think this issue’s going away quite that quickly. Right now…