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Re: [Air-l] social network migration | Flock
by Paul DiPerna 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

I don't know if Flock has been mentioned here yet.. Is this a step toward a browser-based solution for social network data issues discussed the past few weeks on this thread? http://www.flock.com/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=692 http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-download/flock-social-web-browser-2… Best, Paul ____________ Paul DiPerna Blau Exchange http://www.blauexchange.org email: pdiperna(a)blauexchange.org online ID: http://claimid.com/pdiperna ----- Original Message ---- From: "Lisa Jo Elliott, M.A." <lelliott(a)nmsu.edu> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:49:16 PM Subject: Re: [Air-l] social network migration I agree with you, Gail. After spending a year as a usability engineer for a company that produces enterprise database software primarily to banks, two things became very clear. First, software that stores personal data is constantly changing and built in a Rube Goldberg-like fashion by the enterprise/organization using the software. The technical and development abilities within these organizations varies widely with some organizations being at a greater risk of a security breach because of the quality and experience of their technical staff. This seemed to be a function of the quality of recent computer science graduates available to the organization and less a function of managerial practices. Second, personal information is treated as any other information inherent to the business' operation. Compliance with government regulation is taken very seriously by the technical folk who manage the information, but the wider implications of personal data accessibility and unanticipated paths of data loss are not a consideration in day to day operations. In their opinion, data is a business commodity meant to be sold and shared. Subsequent to my year's experience, I have become very selective with where I do business and what spelling of my name I wish to provide. I feel that regulations should have been in place decades ago, before the "cat was out the door". Future regulation and research may wish to consider the effect of the new personal information regulations in the UK and the technological restraints it has placed on banking growth. Regards, Jo Elliott _______________________________________________ The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Reminder: CFP deadline approaching for Rio GigaNet Symposium
by Brenden Kuerbis 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Hello, all If you intend to submit a paper to the 2007 GigaNet symposium, now is the time to complete your proposal and send it in. The official deadline is August 1, so time is getting short. You can read the complete Call for Papers here: http://internetgovernance.org/pdf/GigaNet07CFP.pdf Briefly, there is an interest in papers on: "The Changing Institutionalization of Internet Governance" -- papers can examine institutionalization theoretically, by placing it in the context of theories of international relations, international regimes, and global governance; or empirically, through critical assessment of its outcomes so far. "Toward a Development Agenda for Internet Governance" -- papers that analyze the positive and negative linkages between existing global Internet governance mechanisms and development; the possible need for new mechanisms; and the potential foundations of a holistic development agenda. "Critical Policy Issues in Internet Governance" -- examples of such policy issues would include network neutrality, digital identity, privacy/security, content regulation, intellectua l property rights/DRM, or others. Best Regards, -- Brenden Kuerbis Internet Governance Project http://internetgovernance.org

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AoIR 8.0 - Let's Play: New Hotel added and Deadline extended...
by Richard Smith 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

All you AIRcrastinators!... Get off the phone, stop writing letters with pens and paper, finish that fax you're working on... it is time to play with the internet! That's right - you have been given a reprieve. In two ways. Here are the details: HOTEL Although the Ramada is now fully booked, I've found another discount hotel (details on the wiki: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Quality_Details) for those of you looking for a less expensive option (also $79/night AND free internet). It is a bit further away, but not crazy (1.8km or just over a mile). The Delta - right across the street - still has rooms and I can highly recommend it. A bit more expensive, sure, but you're worth every penny, aren't you? REGISTRATION The "early bird rate" has been extended for a week, until July 22. Get 'em while they're hot, folks! Stop in at the AIR registration page and let your mouse/fingers/credit card do the rest: http://www.aoir.org/?q=conf There. You've got all you need - a place to register and a place to stay when you get here. What more is there in life? Oh yeah. When will you present? That's (almost) done, too. Mia tells me she is just putting the finishing touches on things and should have the schedule posted by the end of this week. I am heading out of town for a week - a remote First Nation village that has internet connectivity via satellite - so may be slow responding. But then, you kids can take care of yourselves, right? Just keep the music down and remember to feed the cat. Hi ho. ...r -- Richard Smith, Associate Professor School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 Phone: 778 782 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0 New book!: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/mawc

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Correction
by Derek McMillan 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

Yes it should have read http://www.martin4vp.info The blog address is right. My bad. Derek > I have commented before that the anti-war protests in my home town were > organised almost exclusively via a yahoo discussion group. > > At the moment the campaign for the radical Martin Powell-Davies is being > organised via a yahoo discussion group, a blog > http://electmartin.blogspot.com and a website http(a)//martin4vp.org.uk > > Martin is standing for vice president of the National Union of Teachers > but he is a radical activist in his native Lewisham and the mainstream > groups in the NUT are all opposed to his activist agenda. To be frank > they are a little old and tired and "anything for a quiet life" these > days..Martin's campaign is a direct challenge to the New Labour > government and the NUT leadership are busy shying away from that. > > I also noted that the Campaign for a New Workers' Party has a facebook > group. This is a turn-up for the book. > > > ___________________________________________________________ > How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday > snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > End of air-l Digest, Vol 36, Issue 18 > ************************************* > > > -- --- Blog http://www.derekmcmillan.com/weblog http://www.socialistteachers.org.uk/weblog ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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ICE-T again
by Barry Wellman 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

The last Aoir digest suggests that the response to my ICE-T proposal has run its course. As you may recall, I suggested Exchange be added to Information and Communication. I haven't archived or done heavy analysis, but the response on This List was unenthusiastic. More interesting to me were the reasons. Basically, "everything is communication" (Luhmannites), etc, or "everything is information: I wish the proponents of each would duke it out (we could make a YouTube video), but I won't join either camp. You can expand any definition of information or communciation to include anything. I could as easily as say (as a sociologist) that all is social organization and social relations. Take for example, sex: certainly, it is communication and social relations, and for the unprotected, all that DNA information is exchanged (after phone numbers). But like Carrie Bradshaw, I think more is gained by keeping sexual relations as a separate category. Where I made a mistake, by aiming for cute memorability, was the Exchange part for ICE-T. What I was really after was E-Commerce, especially the sending/selling and receiving/buying of Things. So we might call the E: "E-Commerce Technologies" to preserve the ICE-T. And if you think that such behaviour boils down to info or comm, go have it out with the economists. Which leads me to the larger point: do we need to disaggregate I and C? I work a lot in the C world, and it seems to me that interpersonal communication (on/offline) is different from civic involvement (what social network analysts call 2-mode connectivity -- person:organization). YMMV Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman For fun -- updating songs, movies and history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing Return to Sender these days _______________________________________________________________________

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Online activism
by Derek McMillan 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

I have commented before that the anti-war protests in my home town were organised almost exclusively via a yahoo discussion group. At the moment the campaign for the radical Martin Powell-Davies is being organised via a yahoo discussion group, a blog http://electmartin.blogspot.com and a website http(a)//martin4vp.org.uk Martin is standing for vice president of the National Union of Teachers but he is a radical activist in his native Lewisham and the mainstream groups in the NUT are all opposed to his activist agenda. To be frank they are a little old and tired and "anything for a quiet life" these days..Martin's campaign is a direct challenge to the New Labour government and the NUT leadership are busy shying away from that. I also noted that the Campaign for a New Workers' Party has a facebook group. This is a turn-up for the book. ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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A related conference: UDC2007
by Richard Smith 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

Dear AIR, Some colleagues of mine in the School of Communication at SFU are organizing a conference on a theme that - I think - would interest many of the people coming to AIR. If you have the time, you might think of attending some or all of their conference, which happens right after ours, in downtown Vancouver. Here is their blurb: > You may be interested in a related conference, just a few days > later (Oct. 25-28), also in Vancouver. It's theme is "Enclosure > versus Emancipatory Communication in the Global City: A Conference > of the Union for Democratic Communications." > > Keynote speakers include Dorothy Kidd, Dan Schiller, Nick Dyer- > Witheford, and Mike Davis, noted author of Planet of Slums. > > Presentation topics also include democracy and the internet, online > journalism and media activism, alternative media, and > communications policy and history. For more details, see http:// > www.sfu.ca/conferences/udc2007 and http:// > www.democraticcommunications.org. Hope to see you at the conference, ...r -- Richard Smith, Associate Professor School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 New phone number: 778 782 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith/ Skype - callto://richard_k_smith New book: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/smith/mawc

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Fwd: [Icommons] Open Call to Participate in Perry Bard's Global Remake of Vertov's "Man With A Movie Camera"
by Jeremy Hunsinger 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

Begin forwarded message: > From: joy.garnett(a)gmail.com > Date: July 13, 2007 2:03:03 PM CDT > To: "iCommons Artists in Residence (icair)" > <icair(a)lists.ibiblio.org>, "icommons(a)lists.ibiblio.org" > <icommons(a)lists.ibiblio.org> > Subject: [Icommons] Open Call to Participate in Perry Bard's Global > Remake of Vertov's "Man With A Movie Camera" > > today on newsgrist: > http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2007/07/perry-bards-glo.html > > New York artist Perry Bard has a new project that requires > participants! > > via MWAMC website: > http://dziga.perrybard.net/ > > Dziga Vertov's 1929 film Man With A Movie Camera records the > progression of one full day synthesizing footage shot in Moscow, > Riga, and Kiev. The film begins with titles that declare it "an > experiment in the cinematic communication of visible events without > the aid of intertitles, without the aid of a scenario, without the > aid of theater." It is often described as an urban documentary yet > the subject of the film is also the film itself –from the role of > the cameraman to that of the editor to its projection in a theatre > and the response of the audience. It is a film within a film made > with a range of inventive effects –dissolves, split screen, slow > motion, freeze frame–all of which are now embedded in digital > editing software. > > 2008: Man With a Movie Camera is a participatory video shot by > people around the world who are invited to record video according > to the original script of Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera and > submit it to a website which will archive, sequence and deliver the > submissions to The Big Screen ( www.bbc.co.uk/bigscreens/) in > 2007-08. When the work streams your contribution becomes part of a > worldwide montage, in Vertov's terms the "decoding of life as it is." > > This website contains every shot in Vertov's 1929 film along with > thumbnails representing the beginning middle and end of each shot. > > You are invited to interpret Vertov and upload your footage to this > site to become part of the database. See the Scene Index. > > PRESENTATION > 2008:Man With a Movie Camera will be streamed on four public > screens in the UK beginning in October 2007 on the Big Screen > Manchester > > All material on this site is public domain > > MORE INFO: > http://dziga.perrybard.net/ > > CONTACT > Please email perrybard(a)gmail.com for questions about this project. > > -- > 530 laguardia place #5, nyc 10012 > http://joygarnett.com > _______________________________________________ > Icommons mailing list > Icommons(a)lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/icommons jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Facebook Group Update
by Nancy Baym 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

The AoIR Facebook group has just topped 300 members, approximately 15% of list subscribers. If you're not on there and are interested, you can investigate further at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2468341531&ref=nf Nancy

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Sigbritt, 75, has world's fastest broadband
by Jeremy Hunsinger 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/ jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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