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#amazonfail and we’re not done yet: links and perspectives (UPDATED with new links)

Apr 18, 2009

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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…

Tweet the silence! #dayofsilence Twitter chat today at 3:30 PM Eastern/12:30 Pacific

Apr 16, 2009

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jon

in social computing, Uncategorized

The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. Each year the event has grown, now with hundreds of thousands of students coming together to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior. — dayofsilence.org 11-year-old Carl Walker-Hoover took his own life last week after constant…

My reply to Clay Shirky on #amazonfail

Apr 15, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing

Clay’s post The failure of #amazonfail admits that over the weekend, he jumped to conclusions,Â “believed things that weren’t true” about Amazon and was “intoxicated” by the hashtag.Â He now thinks he was wrong.Â Most of the post is written in the first person plural, assuming everybody else reacted as he did.Â He concludes that…

#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 …

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#amazonfail and we’re not done yet: links and perspectives (UPDATED with new links)

Tweet the silence! #dayofsilence Twitter chat today at 3:30 PM Eastern/12:30 Pacific

My reply to Clay Shirky on #amazonfail

#digg it!: initial experimental results — and let’s try it again!