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Category: Tales from the Net

Pyr0 on “the art of espionage” at Shakacon

Jun 11, 2009

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jon

in entertainment, meta, Professional, Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

Sarah Blankinship and I are presented Securing with the Enemy: Social strategy and team of rivals at Shakacon today.Â More about our talk later; this post has notes from the keynote presentation on The Art of Espionage, by Luke McOmie (aka Pyr0) of British Telecom. Luke’s consulting includes “real world risk assessments”, which sometimes involves…
We *can* do better: grassroots organizing against hate speech

Jun 7, 2009

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jon

in Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

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…
Creating the future at #cfp09: showtime for privacy and civil liberties activsm!

Jun 1, 2009

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jon

in Personal, privacy, social computing, Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

“Fight for me!” — a privacy-loving Facebook friend, wishing me luck at the conference Hereâ€™s our opportunity to realize the promise of the Net that was so present in 1990s when CFP started. — Deborah Pierce on the CFP blog The program for this year’s Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference is outstanding even by CFP’s…
#p2 and prioritizing diversity: background reading for Thursday’s tweeting

Apr 29, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

#p2 tweeting* Thursday April 30 7-8PM Pacific/10-11PM Eastern Draft agenda and discussion here Please join us! 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 is a resource for progressives who…
Twitter *is* a strategy (UPDATED draft)

Apr 25, 2009

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jon

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

DRAFT!Â Work in progress. Feedback welcome! Update, April 27: This thread sparked and tied in with substantial discussion elsewhere — see the bottom of the main post for additional links. I developed my thoughts in Cognitive evolution and revolution, which I presented at Politics Online; the blog post and comments also document a couple of…
Cognitive evolution and revolution, part 1: #polc09 and a #diversityfail

Apr 23, 2009

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jon

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

Opening slide from early draft of Hashtags at #polc09 Politics Online (1, 2) was a great conference, at least from my perspective.Â Starting with the opening session by Secretaries of State Debra Bowen and Jennifer Brunner, every session I went to had great content.Â Â It was a wonderful opportunity to meet friends and colleagues in-person,…
#amazonfail and we’re not done yet: links and perspectives (UPDATED with new links)

Apr 18, 2009

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jon

in Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

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.Â 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…
Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists: part 1 now posted on The Seminal!

Mar 22, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

A few weeks ago Agency.com and Skittles kicked off â€œInterweb the rainbowâ€, a brilliant marketing campaign that involved multiple social networks. The idea was simple: replace the Skittles.com home page with different social network sites. Late that Sunday evening, they set it up to show everything that people were saying on Twitter about Skittles. Everything,…
Lessons from Skittles for poets and activists, parts 1 (and 2?) (DRAFT!!!!)

Mar 21, 2009

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jon

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

DRAFT! Work in Progress!Â Feedback, please! Final version to be published in The Seminal, potentially in two parts excerpt from skittles home page, March 2009
How to promote “Ask the President” on Twitter

Mar 18, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Ask The President is launching Thursday, March 19. You can help promote it by tweeting about the site once its live, retweeting any links about it, using Twitter to ask people to vote for any questions you submit, and . And if you see other people tweeting about it, please retweet!
#women2follow: collaborative empowerment on Twitter

Mar 11, 2009

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jon

in Professional, social computing, Tales from the Net

The idea behind #Women2Follow Wednesdays is straightforward: to recognize and promote women in the technology and social media field â€” and help people find each other. If youâ€™re on Twitter, itâ€™s easy to participate.
Feingold preparing to act on FISA (a Get FISA Right scoop)!

Mar 5, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Senator Feingold’s going to give the Administration â€œa few more weeksâ€ to come up with a bill to roll back the FISA amendments, and introduce his own bill if they donâ€™t. Please help get the word out — and let’s start getting ready for activism once it happens.
Gender differences in response to Skittlemania

Mar 3, 2009

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jon

in social computing, Tales from the Net

Sunday night, Agency.com relaunched the Skittles* website as a redirect to social network sites.Â The main page showed a Twitter search for “skittles”.Â 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…
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)…
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…