Peter’s famous!

Some links for the future section of some of your papers:

• Cell Phones Become Virtual Banks in China (Truemores)
• Dear Jeff Bezos (one week Kindle review) (Robert Scoble)
• Facebook + Overstock: Transparency Is Not Us (WiredPen)
• Facebook Issue Won’t Die (TechCrunch)
• How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook (InfoWeek)
• If Markets Are Conversations, Twitter Is Money (James Governor)
• Mobile Web: So Close and Yet So Far (NY Times)
• Myspace Plans Facebook-style News Feeds (Reuters)
• Time To Write Our Own Rules (Doc Searls)
• Twitter Is Paying My Rent (Marshall Kirkpatrick)
• Understanding Google (complementary goods) (Rough Type)
• Universal Music Working Hard to Alienate Its Biggest Stars (TechDirt)
• Verizon To Introduce “Any Apps, Any Device” By 2008 (Verizon)
• Why Verizon  Went Open & What It Means (GigaOM)
• YouTube Has Innovative Overlay Ads from Adobe….and Beet.TV is in the Plan (Beet.TV)

The Village Voice reports that the viability of an open source electronic voting system is threatened “the State Board of Elections’ $2 million testing fee.” But Darlene Mealy, a Brooklyn City Council Member, is asking that the fee be waived. She is also pushing for a requirement that the voting equipment be based on accessible software. More from WiredPen.

Announcing a special theme issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication; Volume 13, Issue 1, October 2007 is devoted to Social Network Sites. Guest Editors: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison.

• Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison
• Signals in Social Supernets by Judith Donath
• Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances by Hugo Liu
• Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites by Eszter Hargittai
• Cying for Me, Cying for Us: Relational Dialectics in a Korean Social Network Site by Kyung-Hee Kim and Haejin Yun
• Public Discourse, Community Concerns, and Civic Engagement:Exploring Black Social Networking Traditions on BlackPlanet.com by Dara Byrne
• Mobile Social Networks and Social Practice: A Case Study of Dodgeball by Lee Humphreys
• Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube by Patricia Lange

Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan, from Meeting of Minds, 1968, CBC (tip):

Way back when (2005), the LA Times tried an experiment with wikis without really understanding what wikis are all about. It looks like the Cleveland Plains Dealer has done the same thing with a four-reader political blog.

Jay Rosen at PressThink has a must-read set of “rules” for any traditional news organization that is considering formalizing readers into bloggers. More at WiredPen.

For those of you exploring intellectual property concerns in your papers, consider this in-work paper from Gordon Hull at Iowa State University. Abstract excerpt (also a nice example of succinct yet comprehensive beginning):

Defenders of strong intellectual property rights or of a non-utilitarian basis for those rights often turn to Locke for support. Perhaps because of a general belief that Locke is an advocate of all things proprietary, this move seldom receives careful scrutiny. That is unfortunate for two reasons. First, as I will argue, Locke does not issue a blank check in support of all property regimes, and the application of his reasoning to intellectual property would actually result in a substantially limited rights regime. Second, the attempt to understand intellectual property as an instance of Lockean property, though admittedly anachronistic, offers an opportunity to further our understanding of Locke’s own thought. My major claim will thus be twofold: on the one hand, intellectual property would be an almost paradigmatic case of Lockean property; on the other hand, Locke’s provisos – specifically the widely neglected spoilage proviso – would sharply limit the scope of such entitlements. My secondary claim will be that the spoilage proviso’s neglect is undeserved, and that it deserves a more central place in our understanding of Locke.

I did not know Locke was arguing about restrictive property rights in the 17th century!

For those of you exploring the world of “television” I bring you ComcastMustDie.com, from veteran NPR reporter Bob Garfield. (tip)

You might also want to check out the Social Customer Manifesto (circa 2004).

Start with Bob’s first post (4October 2007): How To Use This Blog:

Actually, I have no deathwish for Comcast or any other gigantic, blundering, greedy, arrogant corporate monstrosity, What I do have is the earnest desire for such companies to change their ways. This site offers an opportunity — for you to vent your grievances (civilly, please) and for Comcast to pay close attention. [...]

Congratulations. You are no longer just an angry, mistreated customer. Nor, I hope, are you just part of an e-mob. But you are a revolutionary, wresting control from the oligarchs, and claiming it for the consumer. Your power is enormous. Use it wisely.

There are 181 comments. Another 110 on the second post; most of these are detailed (and civil) expressions of exasperation from very unsatisfied (only-partially-by-choice*) customers. Pretty amazing stuff.

*Some might be able to install a Dish or DirecTV satellite.

I’d forgotten about this 2006 presentation about globilization, until I ran across it tonight at Slideshare. I’m including two versions here: YouTube and the “play it yourself” Slideshare presentation. Here are the data (PDF) if you, like me, want to know sources.

Argh. The limits of not being able to really touch the code — the fact that I can’t get both of these to center sets my designer teeth on edge. Edited to add: now they are … weird behavior.

HD-DVD players to be less than $200 for Christmas sales. “It’s widely believed that consumer adoption hinges on the players themselves becoming more affordable…”