Category: social computing
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Feingold preparing to act on FISA (a Get FISA Right scoop)!
Senator Feingold’s going to give the Administration “a few more weeks†to come up with a bill to roll back the FISA amendments, and introduce his own bill if they don’t. Please help get the word out — and let’s start getting ready for activism once it happens.
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Gender differences in response to Skittlemania
Sunday night, Agency.com relaunched the Skittles* website as a redirect to social network sites. The main page showed a Twitter search for “skittles”. Other links went to flickr, Facebook, and Wikipedia. Hilarity ensued, with “#skittles” shooting to the #1 Twitter term for the day. With over 4000 blog posts and positive articles in the Wall…
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#p2: statistics, with a gender perspective
I wanted to expand on my remark in yesterday’s post about the gender ratio on #p2 staying “relatively well-balanced” with some statistics from the 24 hours ending at noon (Pacific time) today. While this is only one data point — and over a weekend, too — it’s roughly in line with the other measurements I’ve…
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#p2 on Twitter: some thoughts after the first week
#p2 Twitterchat Monday (2/23), 6:30 PM Pacific/9:30 PM Eastern. Tentative agenda here. Feedback, please … and hope to see you then! It’s been an encouraging first week for the new #p2 Twitter hashtag that Tracy Viselli and I proposed in The Exception last Friday. Usage has steadily increased (more people, more tweets), especially after Sarah…
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Dealing with trolls on Twitter: #p2, #tcot, #topprog, #bipart, and a magic search query
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…
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Facebook reverts to previous TOS. A win for social network activism!
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…
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Zuckerberg: “we wouldn’t share your information in a way you wouldn’t want.” Oh really?
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…
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Facebook: all your content are belong to us. FOREVER! Protests ensue.
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. Anne Kathrine Yojana Petterøe’s People Against the new Terms of Service (TOS)…
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Feedback, please on draft recommendations: how progressives can use Twitter strategically
Tracy Viselli and I are working on an article for The Exception on how progressives can use Twitter. 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…
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#digg it!: initial experimental results — and let’s try it again!
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. …
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How progressives can use Twitter: a strategic perspective (DRAFT)
DRAFT, CURRENTLY BEING REVISED SUBSTANTIALLY.  New recommendations here. Thanks all for the feedback! Final version to appear in The Exception. Collaboratively authored with Tracy Viselli.
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#Digg it! A proposal for women of color, feminists, and progressives on Twitter (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Revised version published on Reno and its Discontents. Thanks all for the feedback. And please, digg it!
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Scenarios for #topprog: your thoughts?
Last night’s #topprog Tweetup, discussing the next steps for the new progressive Twitter hashtag, had some excellent discussions.  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.  Somehow, though, I wound up with an…
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“Dailyish updates” (draft post for The Seminal)
Draft. Work in progress — feedback welcome! The revised version will (hopefully) be posted on The Seminal
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#topprog: #tcot, trolling and topics for #fem2.0
Update: #topprog Tweetup : Tuesday Night 7:30 EST : Subject – topprog.org features, functionality, and community. Please Retweet! 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…
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#topprog … yeah, that could work
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. So when I got Alan Rosenblatt’s email about a new #topprog hashtag, my immediate response was that we should think…
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The ‘Team of Rivals’ road trip: change.org => change.gov
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. Also please leave other suggestions for how…
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w00t, w00t! Get FISA Right finishes #5 in Ideas for Change! Congratulations and great job all!
With a late rush, Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties squeaked into the #5 position in the change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition with 12285 votes! Alas, even though our other endorsement Bob Fertik’s Appoint a Special Prosecutor for the Crimes of the Bush Administration picked up over…
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Get FISA Right: should we endorse the special prosecutor idea?
There’s a voting thread up on the Get FISA Right blog. Current results: 18 yes, 1 no, 1 present (me, since I voted first, to avoid biasing people). Please weigh in!
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Get FISA Right on Ideas for Change: only 72 hours left, five ways to help
Voting in change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition closes Thursday at 2 p.m. Pacific time. Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties has just fallen to #8, and a couple of the ideas close behind us like Pass the DREAM Act – Support Higher Education for All Students have…