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Author: jon

Dealing with trolls on Twitter: #p2, #tcot, #topprog, #bipart, and a magic search query

Feb 20, 2009

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jon

in Professional, social computing, Tales from the Net

One of the challanges with using Twitter for activism is one that’s all too familiar to anybody who’s spent time online: dealing with trolls and other disruptions.*Â Twitter hashtags are completely open, so anybody can post on them, which means we frequently see tweets like: I should also state that some sissy liberal might find…
Facebook reverts to previous TOS. A win for social network activism!

Feb 18, 2009

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jon

in privacy, social computing, Tales from the Net

With over 90,000 members in the protest group on Facebook, EPIC (the Electronic Privacy Information Center) and other privacy organizations filing a complaint readying a complaint to file with the FTC, over 750 articles, and headlines like Facebook seems to have a trust problem, it’s not too surprising that Facebook decided to rethink their stance…
Zuckerberg: “we wouldn’t share your information in a way you wouldn’t want.” Oh really?

Feb 16, 2009

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jon

in privacy, social computing, Tales from the Net

Mark Zuckerberg has a comment up on the Facebook blog in response to the firestorm about their new terms of service: Our philosophy is that people own their information and control who they share it with. When a person shares information on Facebook, they first need to grant Facebook a license to use that information…
Facebook: all your content are belong to us. FOREVER! Protests ensue.

Feb 16, 2009

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jon

in privacy, social computing, Tales from the Net

Facebook’s terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. — Chris Walters in The Consumerist And people aren’t happy about it.Â Anne Kathrine Yojana PetterÃ¸e’s People Against the new Terms of Service (TOS)…
Notes from underground: Love and Devotion — and social network activism on Valentine’s Day

Feb 14, 2009

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jon

in Personal

Last week’s Psylebration, rescheduled after permitting problems, debuted the cool new Sera Phi Healing Center.Â Tonight, it’s Rastaliens — psychedelic trance from Switzerland!
The #p2 Hashtag and Strategies for Progressives on Twitter

Feb 14, 2009

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jon

in Activism, Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

Originally published on The Exception Co-written with Tracy Viselli. Previous draft here.
Feedback, please on draft recommendations: how progressives can use Twitter strategically

Feb 12, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Tracy Viselli and I are working on an article for The Exception on how progressives can use Twitter.Â Here’s our current thinking on recommendations: progressives should get good at Twitter best practices: insiders providing information regularly, backchannels at conferences and workshops, regular Twitter-based chats by organizations and bloggers, contact lists and skills pitching to journalists…
Get FISA Right to meet with Sen. Feingold! (maybe) Help wanted.

Feb 11, 2009

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jon

in political, Tales from the Net

One of our topics Saturday’s conference call (notes here) was how to make contact with our allies in congress.Â Jean from Green Bay mentioned that she and a couple of other people were going to go to one of Senator Russ Feingold’s upcoming Listening Meeting in Wisconsin. The first opportunity is this Saturday on Valentine’s…
#digg it!: initial experimental results — and let’s try it again!

Feb 9, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

please digg, retweet, and follow on twitter Update, 2:30 PM: please also digg and retweet the Nordstrom action alert Update 4:30 PM: Jen Nedeau’s Can social media save the day? has more Last Friday’s #Digg it! A proposal for women of color, feminists, and progressives on Twitter experiment went remarkably well for a first attempt.Â …
How progressives can use Twitter: a strategic perspective (DRAFT)

Feb 6, 2009

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jon

in Personal, political, social computing, social sciences, Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

DRAFT, CURRENTLY BEING REVISED SUBSTANTIALLY.Â Â New recommendations here.Â Thanks all for the feedback! Final version to appear in The Exception. Collaboratively authored with Tracy Viselli.
#Digg it! A proposal for women of color, feminists, and progressives on Twitter (DRAFT)

Feb 5, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

DRAFT!Â Revised version published on Reno and its Discontents. Thanks all for the feedback. And please, digg it!
Scenarios for #topprog: your thoughts?

Feb 4, 2009

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jon

in Personal, social computing, Tales from the Net

Last night’s #topprog Tweetup, discussing the next steps for the new progressive Twitter hashtag, had some excellent discussions. Â Chris Cardinal (aka @cacardinal) has set up a skeleton web page on topprog.org and did a great job facilitating the tweetup; he’ll be writing up a summary later today.Â Â Somehow, though, I wound up with an…
“Dailyish updates” (draft post for The Seminal)

Feb 3, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Draft.Â Work in progress — feedback welcome! The revised version will (hopefully) be posted on The Seminal
Zuckerberg: Facebook to ratchet up exploitation, only bans “outliers”

Feb 1, 2009

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jon

in Uncategorized

Richard Wray, in Facebook aims to market its user data bank to businesses on guardian.co.uk: Facebook intends to capitalise on the wealth of information it has about its users by offering its 150 million-strong customer base to corporations as a market research tool. The appearance, later this year, of corporate polls targeted at certain parts…
#topprog: #tcot, trolling and topics for #fem2.0

Feb 1, 2009

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jon

in political, Professional, social computing

Update: #topprog Tweetup : Tuesday Night 7:30 EST : Subject – topprog.org features, functionality, and community. Please Retweet!Â H/T @cacardinal The new #topprog Twitter hashtag for progressives continues to make progress with a good range of topics and tweeters — including big names like @blogdiva, @PunditMom (who’s moderating a breakout session at fem2pt0 tomorrow), and…
#topprog … yeah, that could work

Jan 29, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

It still bugs me that Steve Elliot’s Get FISA Right: Last Chance To Vote Against Domestic Spying was buried by pro-surveillance diggers after I foolishly twittered it to the #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter) channel.Â So when I got Alan Rosenblatt’s email about a new #topprog hashtag, my immediate response was that we should think…
Hi, Mom! (I’m offline)

Jan 24, 2009

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jon

in Personal

I’ll be offline for the next week or so, back visiting my Mom in Folly Beach, South Carolina.Â Oh, I might go by a Starbucks at some point, but for the most part, don’t expect to see me ’round these parts.Â You’ll have to make do with the Folly Surf Cam, Try to keep the…
Notes from underground: Beat University @ Supperclub

Jan 23, 2009

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jon

in entertainment, Personal

From Pyramind’s announcement: Beat University is a non-profit partnership between San Francisco institutions Pyramind, LoveFest and Supperclub to raise money for the only dedicated electronic music scholarship fund in the entire U.S. The quarterly series of electro, house, and trance parties at top dance venue Supperclub will donate all of its proceeds to help up-and-coming…
Microsoft layoffs

Jan 23, 2009

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jon

in Professional

5000, but only 1400 announced now … meaning everybody gets to twist in fear over the next 18 months.Â As MiniMSFT says: Personally, I feel like we’ve taken the Sword of Damocles and rammed it through a bunch of pink slips and now we intend to dangle that above the head of Microsoft for the…
The ‘Team of Rivals’ road trip: change.org => change.gov

Jan 16, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Executive summary If you were in the finals of the change.org Ideas for Change competition and have (or know of) an equivalent idea in the Citizens Briefing Book on change.gov, please leave a link in the comments — and look for opportunities to co-promote with other compatible ideas.Â Also please leave other suggestions for how…