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“What’s an activism campaign these days without a Facebook presence?”

Jun 29, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, Uncategorized

Mail to the Senator Obama – Please, No Telecom Immunity and Get FISA Right mailing list. See the wiki for more context. 2200 members and growing… Update, July 1: 8600+ members on myBO — moving into #2 in the top 10 groups. Coverage in The Nation, Wired, Slashdot, The New Right, and zillions of other…
A proposal for OpenLeft: mutual guest-blogging

Jun 11, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing

Update, June 14: posted on OpenLeft. Update, June 21: first round on track for week of June 30! Thanks to all for the feedback and review! We propose that OpenLeft feature 5-7 guest bloggers each week, prioritizing diverse voices and perspectives not usually heard on the front page. OpenLeft front page posters will reciprocate, by…
NYTimes criticizes, reinforces NYTimes smear on Obama, Muslims

Jun 2, 2008

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jon

in political

An op-ed piece by Edward Luttwak the New York Times last week relied on a very questionable description of Obama as a “Muslim apostate” to argue that he’d have a hard time reaching out to Muslim leaders and would be at risk of assassination if he visited any countries with a lot of Muslims. It…
Make desire more important than fear: “Change the Way You See Yourself (Through Asset-Based Thinking)”

May 29, 2008

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jon

in Professional, reviews, social sciences, Tales from the Net

Kathy Cramer and Hank Wasiak’s new book is out, a gorgeous and well-focused follow-on to their Change the Way You See Everything, one of the Microsoft Ad Astra project’s signature giveaways.* In May 2007, we did an amazing two-day workshop with Kathy, Hank and his colleagues from the Concept Farm, and folks from Extreme Arts…
CFP08 trip report (2): Dear Potus 08

May 29, 2008

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jon

in Professional, social computing

Part 2 of a series; please see CFP08: trip report for part 1 If the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy community wrote a letter to the next President of the United States about our priorities for technology policy, what would we say — and how would we get him or her to read it? There’s only…
It’s over. Isn’t it? Microsoft/Yahoo, continued

May 27, 2008

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jon

in Professional

“It’s over. Isn’t it?” — the end of Killer Klowns from Outer Space Act 1 ended with a temporary resolution: Microsoft deciding not to “go hostile” and instead withdrawing their offer to buy Yahoo! After a brief intermission, Bill Gates’ announcement of Live Search Cashback is bang-up start to Act 2, featuring guest star Carl…
CFP08: trip report

May 25, 2008

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jon

in Personal, political, privacy, Professional, social computing

Part 1 of a series Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2008 ended with me presenting Dear Potus 08 and circulating the letter to the presidential candidates for signatures, and then a closing plenary by Clay Shirky (notes below). It was exhiliarating as always, and I’m now simultaneously exhausting, revved up, and suffering from jet lag. So…
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2008: showtime!

May 20, 2008

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jon

in political, privacy, Professional, social computing, Tales from the Net

CFP2008 traditionally starts off with a day of tutorials. I was on a panel organized by Lillie Coney of EPIC on E-Deceptive Campaign Practices: â€œElections 2.0″, which was extremely interesting; I discussed examples of, and responses to, e-deception based on my activism experiences this election season, much of which I’ve blogged about here already. Tova…
E-Deceptive Campaign Practices: “Elections 2.0”

May 18, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, social computing, Uncategorized

I’m at a tutorial on Tuesday discussing “elections 2.0” at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference, and one of the things I want to cover is Web 2.0 technologies’ positive role in countering deceptive campaign practices. I’m planning on using some examples from the Obama activism work I’ve been doing on Facebook, as well as…
“Where do you get your political news?”

May 11, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing

when reading blogs, make a point to get a range of perspectives, starting with those that are shut out from the mainstream news. Reviewing an earlier draft of Allies in the blogosphere, one of my friends asked me for more details on this. Rather than bury it in an comment, I figured that it was…
Hillary Clinton Facebook group overrun by troll mob

May 10, 2008

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jon

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

The Hillary Clinton group got overrun with trolls last night. A Facebook bug â€” thatâ€™s been reported and unfixed since February â€” prevented the admins from being able to react. I saved a snapshot of a series of 25 threads with sexist (and in many cases racist) subjects; I won’t quote them, but trust me,…
Clay Shirky to deliver closing plenary at CFP08!

May 7, 2008

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jon

in Professional, social computing

From the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy blog: We are pleased to announce that Clay Shirky will deliver the closing plenary keynote at CFP Technology Policy ’08. Since the 1990s, Shirky has written, taught, and consulted on the social, cultural, and economic effects of Internet technologies and social media. His most recent book, Here Comes Everybody:…
Phyllis Schafly to get Honorary Doctorate from Wash U?

May 6, 2008

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jon

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

The intro of the No honorary doctorate for anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly Facebook group: Wash. U. will honor anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly at commencement. WHAT? This is the woman who lives the hypocrisy of having a career that takes her around the country lecturing “family values” groups on how women should stay home. This is the woman…
Allies in the blogosphere

May 4, 2008

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jon

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

There’s so much to write about for Angry Black Woman’s Carnival of Allies that it’s hard to know where to start. At first I thought of focusing on “why the usual excuses are not good enough.” As the month of April went on, though, with brownfemipower’s and Blackamazon’s final statements, the growing list of women…
Poetry friday!

May 2, 2008

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jon

in entertainment, Personal

Kelly Herrold has her weekly Poetry Friday post up on Big A little A , with tons of good links and more in the comments. My brother Gregory K’s posted (with permission of course) an original J. Patrick Lewis poem, A Sixth Grader Sees the Future … for those who don’t know the kids poetry…
This just in: Obama defriends Wright on Facebook!

Apr 30, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Andy Borowitz breaks the story in the Huffington Post: In an act that campaign insiders said indicated an irrevocable break with his former pastor, Sen. Barack Obama today de-friended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Facebook. It looks like all the fears about the divisiveness within the Democratic party are, if anything, understated. I didn’t realize…
Supreme Court Legalizes Voter Suppression

Apr 29, 2008

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jon

in political

The headline’s from Project Vote’s post on OpenLeft, which also has a great quote from their board member Donna Massey: The real purpose of strict photo voter ID rules is to make it more difficult for some Americans to vote. It’s the voters who are less likely to vote who are also less likely to…
“9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration”

Apr 26, 2008

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jon

in Professional

On the CFP08 blog, Laura DeNardis of the Yale Internet and Society Project writes: To help shape public debate in this election year, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School recommends the following policy principles – The 9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration The principles include Privacy, Access, Network Neutrality, Transparency,…
Black squirrels on the march!

Apr 26, 2008

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jon

in Uncategorized

Seems like it’s kind of a “sucks to be you” situation for the roughly 2 million grey squirrels in the UK — and the 150,000 red squirrels in the Scotland can’t be too happy about it either. Steven Morris has the story in the Guardian Having usurped the red squirrel in most parts, grey squirrels…
Color me impressed …

Apr 16, 2008

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jon

in Personal, Professional

Flying down to SF last Monday for RSA, I opened up my Macbook and got … nuthin’. Once I landed and plugged it in, and the little green light on the power supply connector didn’t even come on, I realized I was in trouble. So I headed down to the Mac store, conveniently right by…