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Civil society goals for the future of the Internet

Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) discusses his views on the important issues concerning the development of the Internet, as part of OpenLeft's Legislation 2.0 discussion of national broadband policy. He also mentions EPIC's Public Voice project.

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Labels: broadband policy, epic, internet, netneutrality, rotenberg, savetheinternet

   Link: http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=399

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Social Media Proliferation

I'm going a little crazy with all the different social media systems, accounts, applications, etc., which often seem to overlap with each other. I think this really became obvious when I started using Facebook more, where you can increasingly integrate all kinds of applications (including social media ones).

You post your status on Facebook, but you can also update your Twitter status via a facebook app, and both status statement (can) appear on your Facebook profile. One popular application on Facebook is called Causes, but you can also integrate your Change.org profile (which includes changes, organizations, politicians, etc., all things you can support via separate Facebook applications (Causes or US Politics).

On top of all that, Change.org and Facebook are two of many social networks. I probably don't even remember all of the social networks that I have joined, but of course this includes MySpace and LinkedIn, as well as Tribe, Care2, and the Omidyar Network. Managing all of these is a large time sink, and never really accomplished, and of course managing identity in general becomes ever more challenging base upon all of the aforementioned services and hundreds of others. Is OpenID the answer? I plan to start trying to figure that out soon. A speaker at Digial Media Conference I attended a few weeks ago predicted that one of the major coming trends in new media will be a merger or consolidation of social networks, and I don't know if this means actual combination of operations, or more likely, some networking solution that makes integration even more seamless than that afforded by Facebook apps - which is a very cool major step along the way, and I'm sure is poised to take it even further.

Facebook is the new LinkedIn, and Change.org, and Twitter, and Flixter, and Flickr, and....

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Labels: community, facebook, openid, socialmedia, socialnetworks

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Added NewsTrust Reviews to my blog

Here's an interesting post on how to add a button to review your blog post on NewsTrust - a cool beta news social rating system that's a nonprofit technology project, and not just technology (like digg). Well, I went ahead and put it on my blog (as if anyone's going to read my lonely blog, or care enough to review one of my posts;-)

Check it out, look for the code on Aldon's Blog. He also has a link to a post for implementing this on a Drupal site (which would be done in PHP, and apparently a little easier than javascript in Blogger. I am on new blogger, and it seems a little balky; I may try to figure that out.    Link: http://aldon.blogspot.com/2007/01/recently-i-wrote-blog-post-on-how-to.html

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Check out Michael Moore's "Sicko" this weekend

Blogging a note I passed along to friends, from Michael Moore. He's encouraging even more people to go see "Sicko" this week, and pledges to help struggling filmmakers with distro based upon his success.

I think he should encourage everyone to use the social networking/viral marketing methods used successfully by Moore, Robert Greenwald, Danny Schecter, and "Before the Music Dies." Robert Greenwald delivered a great keynote on these methods at the Digital Media Conference I attended a couple weeks ago.

Paul

P.S. Go see Spottiswoode and his Enemies this Thursday at the Quarry House, and then head over to Bangkok Blues on Friday to catch the Oxymorons!    Link: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=214

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Check out these cool video tools

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