Supposing ... I'm too old for MySpace

Supposing ... I'm too old for MySpace: "Great article describing the confused state and older geek falls into......"

Advertisers challenged by consumer-created content

Advertisers challenged by consumer-created content: "Consumer-created content has simultaneously drummed up tremendous support from Internet users and provoked anxiety among traditional forms of media struggling to adapt to the online grassroots movement. But it’s also worrying the media’s source of revenue: advertisers."

Handheld for travelers (Sony PSP)

Handheld for travelers (Sony PSP): "Lonely Planet and Sony have teamed up to create Planet PSP. Sony's versatile PlayStation Portable handheld is fast becoming a must-have accessory for travelers. People will be able to surf the net, check email, use interactive maps, view city guides, call friends and family, and translate foreign languages."

Distributed Journalism Conversation at Pressthink, Bloggercon

Distributed Journalism Conversation at Pressthink, Bloggercon: "Over at his blog, Jay Rosen writes — in preparation for a session he’s leading next Friday at BloggerCon — Users-Know-More-than-We-Do Journalism, saying: It’s a “put up or shut up” moment for open source methods in public interest reporting. Can we take good ideas like… distributed knowledge, social networks, collaborative editing, the wisdom of crowds, citizen journalism, pro-am reporting… and put them to work to break news? The answer is absolutely. Read the posting and comment thread for some good discussion. Here’s what I posted: Generally speaking, what we’re discussing here are projects that can be broken down into little pieces where lots and lots of people can ask one question, or look at one document, or solve on piece of a big puzzle. Then the results are aggregated, parsed and reassembled into a coherent whole. It’ll almost always require some folks at the center. We used to call them editors. Reading all the l"

This Is Your Brain Online

This Is Your Brain Online: "How Video Games, Multitasking And Blogging Are Shaping The GenTech Brain."

Why the Future is in South Korea

Why the Future is in South Korea: "By tim Business 2.0 has an interesting article arguing that the future is in South Korea. There's so much food for thought in this article that I had trouble deciding whether to make one long entry about it or a half dozen separate ones. (I've chosen the former.) Here's the premise of the article: South Korea has become the world's best laboratory for broadband services - and a place to look to for answers on how the Internet business may evolve....Cyworld, for example, is a social network owned by a subsidiary of SK Telecom, the country's largest wireless provider. To an American eye, the Cyworld service looks like a mixture of some of the hottest US properties: it's MySpace meets Flickr and Blogger and AIM and Second Life. Users have avatars that visit and can link to each other's 'minihompy' - a miniature homepage that's actually a 3-D room containing a users' blog, photos, and virtual items for sale. Cyworld's digital garage sales include music, ringtones, clothes for your avatar and furnishings for your own minihompy. Cyworld has penetration rates tha"

Giving “Low Budget” New Meaning

Giving “Low Budget” New Meaning: "In the previous post, Tim asked “when are you media?” Here’s an answer: when you have a cellphone with a decent video camera. Via CNN.com: Italian filmmakers used a Nokia N90, a higher-end cell phone sold around the world, to produce the 93-minute “New Love Meetings,” which they say is the first feature film to be entirely shot with such a tool. … “With the widespread availability of cell phones equipped with cameras, anybody could do this,” documentary co-director Marcello Mencarini said in a telephone interview from Milan. “If you want to say something nowadays, thanks to the new media, you can.” In news gathering, early footage is often shot with a cell phone, and, in the case of major events, authorities and news outlets have been known to call on amateurs to come through with video. When it comes to movies, though, cell phone cameras present limits, such as the difficulty to film in darkness or the lack of high-quality microphones. As "

Checking the social networking sites

Checking the social networking sites: "This IHT article says 'when a small consulting company in Chicago was looking to hire a summer intern this month,the company's president went online to check on a promising candidate who had just graduated from the University of Illinois.At Facebook, a popular social networking site,the executive found the candidate's Web page with this description of his interests:'smokin' blunts' (cigars hollowed out and stuffed with marijuana), shooting people and obsessive sex,all described in vivid slang.It did not matter that the student was clearly posturing.He was done.'A lot of it makes me think,what kind of judgment does this person have?' said the company's president,Brad Karsh.'Why are you allowing this to be viewed publicly, effectively, or semipublicly?'Many companies that recruit on college campuses have been using search engines like Google and Yahoo to conduct background checks on seniors looking for their first job.But now,college career counselors and other experts say, some recruiters are looking up applicants on social networking sites like Facebook,MySpace,Xanga and Friends"

Sweden's national election and the Pirate Party

Sweden's national election and the Pirate Party: "'Swedes who download free music and movies have formed their own political party and plan to field 140 candidates,' Times Online reports.Further,'some 6,000 Swedes (and counting) have formed their own political party:the Pirate Party.To be clear, the Pirate Party doesn’t just represent all-you-can-eat downloaders,but downloading is the principal activity that this group, ranging from their teens to late 50s,seems to have in common.'For a lot of members this is the first political party they’ve ever joined,' says 21-year-old Balder Lingegard, an engineering student from Gothenburg who serves as the Pirate Party secretary and is a parliamentary candidate in this September’s national election.'For some, they have felt betrayed by the political system for a long time,feeling it did not represent their interests.Others felt as if there was never an important enough issue for them to take a political stand.'That 'important issue' occurred last week in the form of a raid by Swedish police on The Pirate Bay, a community of more than "

NSA Datamining Social Networking Sites

NSA Datamining Social Networking Sites: "By tim Richard Forno wrote on Dave Farber's IP List: 'New Scientist Magazine has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming 'semantic web' championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.' Slashdot picked up the story, so many of you have probably already seen it. However, both the New Scientist story and much of the followup laid a misleading trail in the focus on social networking sites. The point is that one of the side effects of Web 2.0, the internet as platform, is that we all leave tracks in cyberspace, whatever sites we use. The kind of work described in this story is going on not just at the NSA, but in"

Big Brother is Listening

Big Brother is Listening: "By tim Information Week reports: 'In a research paper [pdf] presented last week at interactive television conference Euro ITV in Athens, Greece, Google researchers Michele Covell and Shumeet Baluja propose using ambient-audio identification technology to capture TV sound with a laptop PC to identify the show that is the source of the sound and to use that information to immediately return personalized Internet content to the PC. 'We showed how to sample the ambient sound emitted from a TV and automatically determine what is being watched from a small signature of the sound—all with complete privacy and minuscule effort,' Covell and Baluja write on the Google Research Blog. 'The system could keep up with users while they channel surf, presenting them with a real-time forum about a live political debate one minute and an ad-hoc chat room for a sporting event in the next.'' What I find most interesting about this technology is not its current intended use, but all its possible unintended uses! What does it mean when our computers start to get an independent sensorium? How "

From Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0

From Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0: "BusinessWeek has written a guide for CEOs who don't know what Web 2.0 is, telling them it's time for Enterprise 2.0. But what is Web 2.0? Nothing more than a bunch of interactive applications not residing on your servers. I know, it's a little bit more complex than this, so read more for selected excerpts and comments. Link: Blogs for Companies"

From Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0

From Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0: "BusinessWeek has written a guide for CEOs who don't know what Web 2.0 is, telling them it's time for Enterprise 2.0. But what is Web 2.0? Nothing more than a bunch of interactive applications not residing on your servers. I know, it's a little bit more complex than this, so read more for selected excerpts and comments. Link: Blogs for Companies"

From Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0

From Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0: "BusinessWeek has written a guide for CEOs who don't know what Web 2.0 is, telling them it's time for Enterprise 2.0. But what is Web 2.0? Nothing more than a bunch of interactive applications not residing on your servers. I know, it's a little bit more complex than this, so read more for selected excerpts and comments. Link: Blogs for Companies"

5 hot products for the future

5 hot products for the future: "Business 2.0 highlights five future products from the Institute of the Future such as fruit injected with medication, glacier water and Internet reputation accounts."

Anti-iTunes DRM demonstrations across the USA tomorrow

Anti-iTunes DRM demonstrations across the USA tomorrow: "Cory Doctorow: Tomorrow, activists in seven cities across the US will picket Apple Stores, handing out information about the dangers of the DRM hidden in Apple's iTunes. iTunes DRM may seem pretty innocuous at first, but every time you invest in an iTunes Store song, you make it more expensive to switch to an Apple competitor's product at any time in the future. You didn't have to abandon your CDs to switch to MP3s (in fact, the more CDs you owned, the better your MP3 experience was, since you could rip those CDs to seed your MP3 collection), but if you want to go from Apple's iTunes to a competing device, ever, you have to be prepared to abandon your whole investment. Add to that Apple's willingness to remove features from iTunes Store songs in the name of 'updating,' the absence of any way to give away, sell or loan your iTunes Store songs, and Apple's use of blacklists and legal threats to prevent people from adding functionality to the iPod and iTunes and buying an iTunes song starts to seem like a worse "

Google Research's new Audio Contextual Ad Prototype

Google Research's new Audio Contextual Ad Prototype: "A team from Google Research has developed a prototype system that uses a home computer’s internal microphone to listen to the ambient audio in a room, determine what is being watched on TV and offer web-based supplemental information, services and shopping contextual to each program being watched."

Hollywood and the hackers

Hollywood and the hackers: "Motion Picture Association President Dan Glickman and Electronic Freedom Foundation's John Perry Barlow lock horns over Hollywood's attitude to the net and piracy. 'You're up against a dedicated foe that is younger and smarter that you are and will be alive when you're dead.'"

Coupland's JPod: the Anti-Microserfs

Coupland's JPod: the Anti-Microserfs: "Cory Doctorow: I just finished 'JPod,' Douglas Coupland's latest novel. Coupland has long been a favorite writer of mine, someone who was able to tell stories about people who could use irony to distance themselves from the worst parts of their lives, but transcend irony to come to the best parts of their lives. JPod is something different. JPod is a novel about how the novelty-seeking, irony-soaked, instant-nostalgia, gross-out culture of the Internet can corrode your soul, so that when you crack wise, there's nothing underneath it but more wisecracks. The book made me uncomfortable and sometimes even angry, but I never wanted to put it down, and it made me think hard about my own life and values. Coupland's earlier books, like 1995's Microserfs, tell the stories of smart, committed young people working their guts out because they believe in the transformative power of technology, because their pure passion for technology unites them. These young people are exploited and have personal problems, but they overcome them by supporting one another -- finding ways"

Bookcase from beyond the Singularity

Bookcase from beyond the Singularity: "Cory Doctorow: This month's 'Found' section in Wired -- which features photoshopped images of futuristic artefacts -- is a great one: a bookcase full of titles from the future. On the list: 'Our Hive Mind, Ourself'; 'The Way to Program Poker'; '2- and 3-Brane Quantum Geometry for Dummies' and my favorite: Francis Fukuyama's 'The End of History: This Time For Sure.' Link "

Bookcase from beyond the Singularity

Bookcase from beyond the Singularity: "Cory Doctorow: This month's 'Found' section in Wired -- which features photoshopped images of futuristic artefacts -- is a great one: a bookcase full of titles from the future. On the list: 'Our Hive Mind, Ourself'; 'The Way to Program Poker'; '2- and 3-Brane Quantum Geometry for Dummies' and my favorite: Francis Fukuyama's 'The End of History: This Time For Sure.' Link "

What IS Television, Anyway?!?

What IS Television, Anyway?!?: "Those party poopers at TiVo are trying to cause more problems for tradition-lovers. First, they had to mess with the idea of live programming, and now they're getting desperate enough to try and further blur the lines between what is Internet programming and what is television. TiVo announced on Wednesday that they are launching the new TiVoCast. For the 400,000 TiVo boxes that have high-speed Internet, the boxes will allow them to watch Internet video on their television set. But...wait....if this program can be viewed on the television set...what is television, anyway? Most people have moved past the antenna phase, so it's not broadcast. And services like TiVo and DVRs (and even that dreaded VCR of yesteryear) have already done all they could to obliterate the liveness and the scheduling power of television networks. TiVo's feeling enough pressure from all the DVR services provided by cable companies and DVRs with hard drives that many people value over the TiVo service. We had a class at MIT this past semester in which a few of my colleagues and I debated a"

Pentagon Sets its Sights on MySpace

Pentagon Sets its Sights on MySpace: "The National Security Agency is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks, and could combine combine data with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals."

Guardian to file online first...

Guardian to file online first...: "And editor predicts the end of printed newspapers"

Participatory Culture and Bluegrass Music

Participatory Culture and Bluegrass Music: "When you are living in Western Kentucky, especially working in the media industry, few days go by without hearing something about bluegrass music, especially since the genre has received such a resurgence in popularity over the past few years, after the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? introduced the music to mainstream America with its outstanding soundtrack. My home county is considered 'the birthplace of bluegrass music,' because the man often considered the genre's father, Bill Monroe, and many other founding voices for the style, were born in the small town of Rosine. At least once a month, public debate has popped up in our small town, as the Bill Monroe Foundation hopes to gain control of the county's budget to help increase the drive for tourism traffic through Monroe's home place. (The wars over bluegrass music are more than can be detailed here, but--so far this year--they've included a public battle and debate over a semi-sacred tree on the homeplace between the county government and the BMF director and a current bat"

ABC dealt two advertising blows

ABC dealt two advertising blows: "According to Jon Lafayette of TelevisionWeek, CBS is taking over the lead in advertising deals with significant increases, moving past main competitor ABC, with CBS ranging a 2 percent to 4 percent price increase. This comes on the heels of Lafayette's story yesterday detailing ABC's decision to back off of counting DVR viewers in overall numbers for advertisers and instead concentrate only on live ratings. The network originally claimed it would only do deals that counted viewing on digital video recorders, but advertisers had strong concerns that those recording on DVRs would be very unlikely to watch commercial breaks. ABC's statement issued about rescinding the demand for inclusion of DVR numbers included the following comment: 'While the majority of the advertising community has reached a consensus on the Nielsen DVR ratings issue, and has concluded that that commercials seen during a DVR-recorded programming have no value, the ABC Television Network continues to believe strongly in the worth of the 'Live Plus' viewer, and will continue its efforts to include this audience.'"

The camera and the phone

The camera and the phone: "A study commissioned by Nokia has found that 44% of people already use their mobile phone as their main camera the BBC reports.'The Nokia research aimed to find out just how much use people make of the ever-growing list of functions crammed into modern mobile phones.It revealed some cultural differences among those who responded,with 68% of those questioned in India being the most likely to use their phone as their main camera.By contrast,89% of Americans said they would stick with two separate devices'. Handsets look to eclipse cameras "

In-game art-show asks for CC remixes that interact

In-game art-show asks for CC remixes that interact: "Cory Doctorow: An upcoming event in the virtual world Second Life combines mashups, Creative Commons and multiplayer online worlds. Artists are invited to remix art from two Creative Commons-licensed shows at Harvard and NYU and the results will be 'hung' in a virtual gallery in Second Life at an event on June 15th. The remixes can include elements from Second Life's scripting language, so they can be animated, act on viewers, change the landscape and so on. Link (Thanks, James!) "

The Wii Virtual Console: How it will change everything.

The Wii Virtual Console: How it will change everything.: "The Wii Virtual Console has the potential to be one of the biggest things to hit gaming in a long time. Imagine having a huge library of great games all available to you at any time. The controller is not the only part of the Wii that is truly revolutionary. This could mean big things if Nintendo plays its cards right."

The Wii Virtual Console: How it will change everything.

The Wii Virtual Console: How it will change everything.: "The Wii Virtual Console has the potential to be one of the biggest things to hit gaming in a long time. Imagine having a huge library of great games all available to you at any time. The controller is not the only part of the Wii that is truly revolutionary. This could mean big things if Nintendo plays its cards right."

UK: Times Online to include television news service

UK: Times Online to include television news service: "A little more than a week ago, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. announced it would release UK’s The Times in New York, with more editions to follow in different countries around the world. Before that, the company expressed goals of building its Internet investment. And the expansion continues. Now The Times plans to launch a broadband television news service, stretching its reach and Web involvement. "

Help title a book on "wikinomics"

Help title a book on "wikinomics": "Cory Doctorow: Dan sez, 'Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams are publishing a new book on collaboration called Wikinomics and they're seeking help in choosing a title. They've set up a neat little site where you can suggest titles, comment, vote, etc. Interesting take on peer production and collaboration!' Link (Thanks, Dan!) "

A UK step in the digital rights direction

A UK step in the digital rights direction: "A report in boingboing has this news of very progressive recommendations under consideration in the UK Parliament: UK Parliament report damns DRM, calls for reins on crippleware The UK All Party Parliamentary Internet Group has published a paper on DRM today that makes a number of very progressive recommendations on DRM in British law. The APPIG solicited public comments, and the UK Open Rights Group submitted a long, detailed set of recommendations on how to make Britain safe from copy-restriction technology. Many of the best recommendations in the APPIG mirror the ORG proposals, which suggests that Parliament is really listening to tech activists on DRM questions. . . ."

Nature and peer review

Nature and peer review: "'Nature is undertaking a trial of a particular type of open peer review.In this trial,authors whose submissions to Nature are sent for peer review will also be offered the opportunity to participate in an open peer review process (see below for explanation).The trial is optional for authors;it will continue in parallel with Nature's usual procedures,and does not affect the likelihood of eventual publication of the submitted work.At the same time as the trial,Nature is running a web debate on peer review,to which we welcome comments from readers'. Nature Peer Review Trial and Debate"

Crash Of The Web 2.0 Titans

Crash Of The Web 2.0 Titans: "Clearly many of today’s Web 2.0 startups lack the revenue models and paths to profitability that would allow them to become “real” businesses someday and even well-funded ones have a limited lifespan. But we’re likely not going to see a real “crash” like we did last time, because there’s no real bubble to burst."

Web é cada vez mais usada

Web é cada vez mais usada: "O ESTUDO é encomendado pela Online Publishers Association e tem apenas 350 pessoas como amostra, mas mesmo assim merece uma referência - Web is the No. 1 media: Web media is the dominant at-work media and No. 2 in the home, according to a new report from the Online Publishers Association.The Web also ranked as the No. 1 daytime media.A research project, conducted by Ball State University’s Center for Media Design, tracked the media use of 350 people every 15 seconds. The subjects represented each gender, about equally, across three age groups: 18 to 34, 35 to 49 and 50-plus. The people were monitored by another person for approximately 13 hours, or 80 percent of their waking day. "
Fonte: via Ponto Media

A leitura na Web

A leitura na Web: "OS TEMPOS de leitura na Web, num exclente texto do The Washington Post de ontem: If This Column Were a Web Site, This Would Be Its Home Page"

Online Seminar on Benkler's Wealth of Networks

Online Seminar on Benkler's Wealth of Networks: "(Via boingboing) I'm about 85% through the book. It's important. This seminar adds value: Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom is a very exciting book. It captures an important set of developments – how new information technologies make it easier for individuals to collaborate in producing cultural content, knowledge, and other information goods. It draws links across apparently disparate subject areas to present a theory of how these technologies are reshaping opportunities for social action. Finally, it presents a highly attractive vision of what society might be like if we allow these technologies to flourish, as well as the political obstacles which may prevent these technologies from reaching their full potential. If you’re interested in debates on Creative Commons, on Wikipedia, on net neutrality, or any of a whole host of other issues, this is an essential starting point. We’ve put together a seminar on the book, which we hope will help spur discussion around it in th"

Documentários de quatro minutos

Documentários de quatro minutos: "PARECE-me muito boa ideia o site do Channel 4 britânico, que publica documentários de quatro minutos criados por cibernautas. "
Fonte: via ponto Media

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing: "[via Social Synergy Weblog] [bliki | What is a bliki?] Back in January of this year I blogged on smartmobs.com about an interesting blog posting from Jeff Jarvis. The idea that I talked about at the time, inspired by Jarvis' post was that: ...on the' individual' level, we want to control the things that we create (and, that if we can't, we'll go elsewhere). On the 'collective' level, we 'create as we consume' collectively, and that the 'crowd' itself owns the 'wisdom of the crowd'. If someone tries to 'own' this crowd-wisdom generated from consumption, they make it less valuable by trying to disconnect it from larger networks to control it. This shift in the way that things are designed and used was inspired by the success of open source software and the emergence of 'Peer to Peer'(P2P) paradigms in ever growing areas of human problem solving. Some of the roots of these concepts extend back to work done at MIT, such as Gershenfeld's Personal fabrication ideas, Frank Piller's Mass Customization work, and Eric Von Hippel's"

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing: "[via Social Synergy Weblog] [bliki | What is a bliki?] Back in January of this year I blogged on smartmobs.com about an interesting blog posting from Jeff Jarvis. The idea that I talked about at the time, inspired by Jarvis' post was that: ...on the' individual' level, we want to control the things that we create (and, that if we can't, we'll go elsewhere). On the 'collective' level, we 'create as we consume' collectively, and that the 'crowd' itself owns the 'wisdom of the crowd'. If someone tries to 'own' this crowd-wisdom generated from consumption, they make it less valuable by trying to disconnect it from larger networks to control it. This shift in the way that things are designed and used was inspired by the success of open source software and the emergence of 'Peer to Peer'(P2P) paradigms in ever growing areas of human problem solving. Some of the roots of these concepts extend back to work done at MIT, such as Gershenfeld's Personal fabrication ideas, Frank Piller's Mass Customization work, and Eric Von Hippel's"

How do "info-addict" couples surf together?

How do "info-addict" couples surf together?: "Cory Doctorow: Wired News columnist Momus is collecting stories about 'information addicted' couples who spend their together time with a couple of computers, typing alongside of one another. That characterizes all my relationships since the late nineties -- the questions are cool and resonant: What about surfing as a form of sociability: do you e-mail each other interesting website addresses? Do you tend to visit the same kinds of sites? I know that when Hisae and I are surfing, language divides us: I'm visiting English-language sites, she's on Japanese ones. But quite a lot of our interaction is me asking her for explanations of things, Japanese stuff I don't understand. When that's going on, we'll either bring up the same page on two machines, or huddle around one. It's actually more sociable than TV. (Of course, maybe the TV is on at the same time.) What about more dubious areas: are you secretly looking at porn with your partner right there in the room? Are you flirting with someone else, messaging someone? Because the weird thi"

Red Hat ships open source MySpace++ clone

Red Hat ships open source MySpace++ clone: "Cory Doctorow: Red Hat has developed a new MySpace like site called Mugshot -- but it's open source. I saw a short demo of Mugshot this morning at the Red Hat Summit in Nashville and it was pretty hot; they nicked the best stuff out of all the social networking sites and put them together in an open codebase. The Mugshot client application is built with a special cross-platform code library developed in C with GLib and GObject. For network communication, Mugshot uses the open XMPP protocol also used by Jabber and Google Talk. The current version of Mugshot is built with Loudmouth, a GLib-based XMPP implementation developed by Imendio. The Linux version of the Mugshot client user interface is built with GTK and uses GConf for storing configuration data, which means it is closely aligned with the GNOME desktop environment. The Linux version uses D-Bus for interprocess communication, and will provide Firefox integration. Link (Thanks, Segphault!) "

Video games push for Olympic recognition

Video games push for Olympic recognition: "Global Gaming League talking with China to bring competitive gaming to the Beijing 2008 games"

Open net-seminar on Benkler's "Wealth of Networks"

Open net-seminar on Benkler's "Wealth of Networks": "Cory Doctorow: Siva sez, 'Crooked Timber is hosting a great seminar on Yochai Benkler's new book, The Wealth of Networks. CT solicited commentary essays from Henry Farrell, Dan Hunter, John Quiggin, Jack Balkin, Eszter Hargattai, and Siva Vaidhyanathan. Benkler has responded to all of them. The discussion ensues in the comments. This is an excellent teaching tool.' I've just started reading Wealth of Networks and it's just blowing my mind. Benkler's articulating the case for open source, open content and other collaborative efforts in a way I've never encountered, making the case that what we've got here is a new mode of industrial production, something not subject to the traditional economics of charity, government spending, or capitalism. As a reminder, the full text of the book is available under a Creative Commons license, too. Henry Farrell argues that not only formal institutions but also informal norms are necessary for these technologies to enable proper collaboration. Dan Hunter celebrates the book, but worries that it covers too many topics, and "

The Internet isn't free!

The Internet isn't free!: "Awesome Interview with Tim Berners-Lee."

Every teenager has a story

Every teenager has a story: "I was drawn to a USA Today article on teens and tech for the three good reasons. 1) The topic (tech changes the way we tell stories). 2) The Smith in the first paragraph (”Alexandra Smith would pound out more than 1,000 text messages from her Razr cellphone a month: She was chatting—constantly, exhaustively—but she wasn’t talking. It got so that Smith’s parents were begging her to put the phone to her lips instead of her fingertips”). 3) A smart squib by Amy Goldwasser, a friend of SMITH, and editor of a forthcoming collection of personal essays by teenage girls. Says Ms. Goldwasser: “If you’re a teenager today, you live your life in words,” tapped out into text and instant messages and onto blogs and MySpace pages. There’s “no more precious divide between how they live their lives and writing as a formal, school-assignment kind of thing.” Read the piece here. Tags: smithmag, Amy, Goldwasser, teens Read the new SMITH magazine: Your st"