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Hillary Clinton Facebook group overrun by troll mob

May 10, 2008

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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,…

Phyllis Schafly to get Honorary Doctorate from Wash U?

May 6, 2008

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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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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…

This just in: Obama defriends Wright on Facebook!

Apr 30, 2008

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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…

A Carnival of Allies

Apr 13, 2008

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in political, Tales from the Net

From The Angry Black Woman: I call a Carnival. The Carnival of Allies. Where self-identified allies write to other people like themselves about why this or that oppression and prejudice is wrong. Why they are allies. Why the usual excuses are not good enough. I figure allies probably know full well all the many and…

Asbestos underwear, fair information principles, and security

Apr 3, 2008

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in privacy, Professional, Tales from the Net

Tales from the Net co-author Deborah Pierce’s Into the Lion’s Den — a privacy advocate’s work is never done (on her tribe.net blog) talks about a panel she was just on at ere expo, “the nation’s leading recruiting conference.” She was there for a debate with the CEO of a company whose mission is “to…

Cognitive diversity and the 2008 US election

Mar 9, 2008

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jon

in political, social sciences, Tales from the Net

Originally posted as a comment about The Day After. There’s an interesting thread started on Feb 8 in the One Million Strong for Barack group on Facebook, How many Political Cards Hillary has played and whats more to come? I went back and looked at it today seeing how accurate it was; here was my…

Community defense vs. trolls in the One Million Strong for Barack Facebook group

Mar 3, 2008

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in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Like a lot of political sites these days, the Barack Obama Facebook page and One Million Strong for Barack group have been suffering from an infestation of trolls and hate speech. Obama supporters, like others, use Facebook to help with “get out the vote” work (for example posting links to information about polling places) and…

Voting rights victories in LA County and Texas!

Feb 27, 2008

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Update, March 6: democracy largely (albeit imperfectly) prevailed in the LA County mess; 47,153 â€œdouble bubbleâ€ votes were counted in Los Angeles County. What about Ohio? We shall see … Julia Rosen’s Victory post yesterday on Courage Campaign’s blog announced Dean Logan’s agreement to count every possible LA County decline-to-state ballot, and followup mail from…

Coverage for ‘How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech’

Feb 24, 2008

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

The two-part series I posted on Tales from the Net and Wired’s How-to Wiki is starting to get some coverage. Shai Sachs has an excellent piece on MyDD: There’s been a lot of buzz lately about Facebook “censorship” of free speech. The Blackadder One case I wrote about a couple weeks ago was just an…

Grr: “Our terms of service has changed”

Feb 22, 2008

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This morning when I went to log in to a discussion forum on Yuku (“your interests, your communities” — the next-generation, friend-enabled version of ezboard), I was greeted with: Our terms of service has changed. Please read the new terms of service. By clicking “I agree,” you agree to Yuku’s Terms of Use. Oh, they…

Facebook: censoring political speech

Feb 19, 2008

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Update on February 22: How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech is up on Tales from the Net and Wired’s How-to Wiki and links back to comments in this thread. Alas, the Facebook Barack Obama discussion board was deleted on February 20, so many of the links here go off to oblivion. If…

“Yes We Can” do grassroots campaigning for Obama on Facebook

Feb 4, 2008

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jon

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

The Yes We Can/Sí Se Puede video’s already got at least a million hits on YouTube — 566,000 for the one I linked to here, a couple more instances with 285,000 and 140,000, and then a long tail curve … How many people will watch it if we get it all over Facebook? I dunno,…

My “interventions” are admired!

Jan 24, 2008

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

From Moderator’s closing statement in The Economist’s debate on social networking technologies in education: I also admired the interventions from JON PINCUS, who pointed out that supporters of the motion underestimated “the risks that the new technologies will in practice reinforce (rather than counter) existing negative biases and trends in the educational system”. He also…

What’s up with me, mid-January edition

Jan 21, 2008

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jon

in Personal, Professional, Tales from the Net

After taking a couple of months fairly completely off (sleeping, doing some writing, and plenty of hanging out with Deborah), as January gets going I’m starting to re-engage, so I figured it’s about time for another “what’s up” post…. The biggest news is that I’m going to be starting a consulting gig in early February.…

CNet’s “social networking year in review”

Dec 30, 2007

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in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Other than the title, which doesn’t do it for me, Caroline McCarthy’s Social networking gets its geek on is an excellent short roundup of the activity in 2007 in the social networking space, with great links both in the story and the “2007 highlights” sidebar. One thing that popped out at me: legal and political…

What’s up with me

Dec 29, 2007

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jon

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

The two months since I left Microsoft have been low-key recharge-and-relax time: catching up on sleep, visiting my mom, reconnecting with friends, doing some writing (blogging, poetry, the fictional The anomaly and the goddesses), and hanging out with Deborah. It’s been great. My friends consistently tell me how relaxed I look and sound (my Facebook…

More (negative) attention to Facebook’s privacy practices

Dec 27, 2007

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

With a two-part series on TPM Cafe’s Table for One, an article in the Mercury News on Christmas Day, and the recent settlement of a suit on text messaging, Facebook continues to become a focus for discussion of privacy issues. To some extent this is a consequence of their size and success: they’re a high-profile…

Facebook introduces better opt-out, apologizes for “Beacon”

Dec 5, 2007

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jon

in privacy, Tales from the Net

Well, it’s a start: in response to what’s getting characterized as a firestorm of criticism, and Monday’s disclosure that the tracking extends to third-party sites (including IP addresses of people who haven’t even signed up for Facebook), they’ve now followed up last week’s shift to more of an opt-in model with the introduction of a…

“The Facebook betrayal – users revolt over advertising sell-out”

Nov 18, 2007

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jon

in privacy, Tales from the Net

Nice article in by Susie Mesure and Ian Griggs in the Independent on Sunday on responses to Facebook’s new “social advertising” direction from users and consumer advocates.Â The contrast betweeen the 35,000 people in “My photos are MINE! NOT Facebook’s! Change the Terms and Conditions” and less than 600 “fans” of Coke is a nice…

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