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Open Source Use in Online News and Citizen Media
by Steven Clift 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Is anyone out there researching this topic/trend? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steven Clift - clift(a)publicus.net Web: http://publicus.net Blog: http://dowire.org/notes NGO: http://e-democracy.org Replies to slc@ may be missed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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International Summit of Free Networks 2007 in Catalonia (SAX2007) & WSFII (World Summit for Free Information Infrastructures)
by Josep Vives 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

FYI International Summit of Free Networks 2007 in Catalonia (SAX2007 & WSFII) WEB http://guifi.net/ca/SAX2007En SCHEDULE: http://guifi.net/SAX2007Programa OVERVIEW This year, the traditional meeting for the free civil networks in Catalonia (SAX) will be extended to new contents, will take a week and will be extended to new participants worldwide and therefore affiliated to the WSFII (World Summit for Free Information Infrastructures). The registration will be free and everyone interested in developing non-proprietary networks is invited. The main purpose of the SAX & WSFII event in Catalonia is to empower and develop at all levels the civilian, open and free infrastructures as an alternative to the classic proprietary/corporate owned or operated network models. Around this objective, we plan to have presence with panelists from all the actors involved, including local government, enterprises of any size, regulator authority, and of course, the geek community involved in the research and development activities and the users in general. You should come to this SAX2007 & WSFII event if you are part of a user community or you want to start one, a local government or local business and you whish to share your experience or understand how free networks can become a success and sustainable instead of just draining funds to feed unprofitable "business" models. Take a look at the schedule. Wou'll see there the topics and the major actors of the open networks worldwide. The event will be scheduled by days; some might be in parallel (stay tuned to the schedule, which may change until the very last day): In all cases, will be keynotes, panelists and open discussions. Where makes sense, will be also practical exercises. * Business day. How can any business be friendly developed within the context of neutral and free infrastructures? How this can provide good ROI cases and boost productivity? What is saying the Spanish regulators about that? Success stories. * Developer's day. How developers, hackers and geeks can contribute? Which are the methodologies for doing so? Hacking, new things, what to do... o Hardware for Open Source wireless systems o guifi.net decentralized povisioning system o B.A.T.M.A.N. Roadshow * Backbone day. Keeping the network up to date to the state of the art of the technology. We will configure a telecommunications tower with both long distance links and CPE coverage to the users at Sant Bartomeu del Grau. * Local government and municipalities day. What means civil and free networks and which unique benefits local governments and municipalities can take from them? Why they are a great opportunity for developing the civil society and increase digital inclusion percentages up to unprecedented levels? Real world examples: Hear some elected people experiencies and regulators. Understand how more than 40 municipalities have succesfully participated in building free networks around guifi.net. * User's day. How it works and how non-technical people can participate in the free networks? Benefits. How to connect. What has to be done at home. Equipments to buy or consct. Trainings. * "guifi.net tour". Visit and see how solar powered backbone long-distance links provide broadband access to rural areas in the pyrenees mountains. * Community day. What we can do, as a community, to help each other? Find out synergies, common tactics and strategies. o In Catalonia (SAX) o In Spain (redlibre) o South Europe, Europe worldwide and developing countries (WSFII) Everyone interested in adding content to the SAX&WSFII is very welcome, just contact us. Only take in mind that SAX&WSFII is about free (as in freedom, not as in beer or as in built with open source but proprietary) network infrastructures. If you think that you have something in that direction, please join to the guifi-saxcatalunya list (english interface available). Logistics: Where will be the SAX2007 & WSFII and where to sleep. ------------------------------------------------- Josep Vives Jounou jvives(a)cibersociedad.net Sociologist, Internet Researcher Observatory For Cibersociety www.cibersociedad.net Guifi.Net http://guifi.net -------------------------------------------------

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the choice of social network is a social network phenomenon?
by William Bain 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Barry Wellman wrote: "It is path dependency. If most of your friends are on FB or MS, then you will choose that one. I haven't seen hard data on socioeconomic differences, and I'd be reluctant to generalize that FB is mid-class and MS working-class." I would be interested in knowing whether anything *has* been published with that type of hard data and how you'd anallyse the paths. I assume vissually (charts? tables?). Maybe this has been talked about before, but fwiw on a learning basis. In a field arguably outside the scope of my usual one. Especially: would anyone know of something publiehshed online? Best regards, Will William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona --------------------------------- Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.

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Who am I? - Social Networks - Not Networking - Networking
by John Veitch 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

I'm indebted to Danah Boyd for so clearly explaining how different social segments find it important to join certain online groups. Also for the insight that while we might call these groups "social networks", when young people join these groups they are not "networking" in the sense most of us would understand. So this form of joining behaviour is like wearing a colours, or a badge, or branded jeans, or the right brand of sport shoe, or being part of the "right" cell phone network. My self image tells me which choice is appropriate for me. It's a from of personal branding, not really linking or friending or connecting in the way someone like me (I'm 65) might imagine. The article in US Airways Magazine, "Welcome to the Social (Network)", by Daniel Tynan goes on to explain that because of web 2.0 influences many sites on the Internet allow people to offer site content, and to "brand" that content with their proper names or their chosen Internet names. Once again this is not networking, but it is using the power of many to create a resource for other "people like me", since if you are not "like me" you would never find your way to this "space". Search engines will pick up your name or your brand in most of the places where you are active. By using these sites we leave traceable tracks of ourselves. Most of the young people using MySpace or Facebook or Bebo are not thinking about "building a personal brand" but that is the task they have begun. Besides it's an important task, one that we all need to learn. A MySpace page you've put effort and time into is certainly one way to begin. David Teten and Scott Allen in their book "The Virtual Handshake; Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online" devote a chapter to "Building Your Virtual Presence" (CH5). Lauren M Squires, inspired this letter today by suggesting that we are all in real life social networks so that Daniel Tynan's comment: "If you don't belong to some kind of (online) social network, you soon may not belong anywhere." was too strong. ("... This usage got my goat, for whatever reason" LS) While I agree that the words Daniel Tynan chose are immoderate, the sentiment he is expressing is in the right direction. The value of the Internet for each of us evolves out of the social contacts that we build online. "All learning is social." ... "We learn best from people like ourselves." ... "Children learn more quickly and easily if the teacher is a person who shares the same culture as the child." I'm sure you know many similar quotes. While it's true that in the real world most of us can find the contacts we need, the Internet make is possible to build social contacts across geographic and political and religious boundaries. The great promise of the Internet is better understanding and more informed decision making and greater innovation because we live in the "information age". You get a clue from the term "information age" that "information" is a resource or a tool that you can "get" by paying a price of some kind. That price might be $1.20 for a newspaper, or $150.00 for a technical report, or it may be the time cost of being a member of air-l listserv. However very often the key to my access to the information I need is to be a MEMBER of LinkedIn, or Ryze, or Viadeo, or Xing or TEN. In my activity as a member I slowly identify certain people who are "like me" and when I see their names attached to comments, I would otherwise ignore, instead I pay special attention. When you are "known" to more people, your messages posted to lists like this or to web sites will be read by more people. That so many people on this list are familiar with MySpace and Facebook but not Bebo (The current hit in NZ schools I understand) tells us something about who's here. The original social network that became very popular was Ryze. That network looks fairly old hat now, but it still has some very active discussion networks in English, and it's growth rate remains steady. I strongly recommend to you all the value of LinkedIn. It's not obvious what to do there, because there are no discussion boards, but it's a great way to display your personal work record and history in a form less formal than a CV. And the Answers section of LinkedIn is a valuable resource. Depending on where you live and your interests joining one or two other online social networks is likely to be useful. Since many of you are university focused Academici might appeal to you. Academici was built on the same base as OpenBC and run out of Germany. It functions in 16 different languages. There was some problem with continuing to use the OpenBC software platform and Academici had to shift their entire membership to a new system. It's been messy and it took almost a year. A lot of goodwill has been lost. But the initiative is still valuable. Your support would be appreciated. Drop me a private note and I'll send you an invitation. Here's the site: http://www.academici.net/ John -- "John Stephen Veitch" http://www.ate.co.nz/ http;//www.ate.co.nz/networking/ By all means Google me.

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Doctoral Research - Project or Document Management Software
by Samita Nandy 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

I am a Ph.D. student and currently arranging research material for my thesis proposal and dissertation. In my research, I am coming across a vast number of online sites and offline material. Usually, I save them as documents and organize them as files and folders in my study area or computer. However, I was wondering if there is any academic software that could manage, categorize, and coordinate research, conferences, publications, calender, appointments, etc in a strategic manner. I know there are applications like Microsoft Outlook that can organize mail and calenders for communication and planning and EndNote and many web-based software are there for organizing bibliographies, library lists, and publishing but I was wondering if there is a comprehensive academic software for research project management? I am sure this would be very helpful for all graduate students and academic researchers and any suggestion would be very helpful! Thanks! Samita -- Samita Nandy Media and Information, Curtin University of Technology Communication and Culture, University of Toronto E-Mail: samitanandy(a)gmail.com Phone: 1-905-896-7834 Fax: 1-905-268-9996

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blogs & state politics research
by Emily Metzgar 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Dear Colleagues, I'm a doctoral student in media and public affairs at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and my research focuses on the impact of weblogs on state politics around the country. This is a quick reminder of my request for your help in compiling data for my research. A quick profile of my research is available here: http://governing.typepad.com/13thfloor/2007/04/queen_of_the_st.html I have prepared an online survey for both bloggers and blog readers to complete. The survey is available online through June 30 at the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=mb2MRtsLhdFv5NW9LLmdiA%3d%3d I would be grateful if you could take the time to complete this survey and to circulate it among your colleagues. If you like, I'd be happy to keep you informed of my findings as my research progresses. Many thanks for considering this request. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments about this -- like any good doctoral student I'm always happy to discuss my research! Best regards, Emily Metzgar Doctoral student Manship School of Mass Communication Louisiana State University emetzg1(a)lsu.edu 318.572.0531 -- phone 866.319.8460 -- fax

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the choice of social network is a social network phenomenon?
by Barry Wellman 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

It is path dependency. If most of your friends are on FB or MS, then you will choose that one. I haven't seen hard data on socioeconomic differences, and I'd be reluctant to generalize that FB is mid-class and MS working-class. You're seeing local clustering, which may not be consistent across localities or interest groups. Often, it is based on just a local seed (one of the pitfalls of statistical cluster analysis, btw). WHy, for ex, is FB hotter in Canada than the US? I doubt that it originally had much to do with a nicer interface. Two notes on terminology: 1. Consistent with Lauren Squires, I'm running a small conference Nov 1-2 with the title "Social Network/ing". It's mostly academic, with some industry attendance, and mostly local, but with visiting speakers: Keith Hampton, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Nan Lin and Fernanda Viegas. (and Jon Kleinberg on Oct 30 as a stand-alone). Attendance is free, but we don't do anything for you: find your own room and restaurant. (But do let me know if you're coming). 2. As for terms, altho I like danah's "friendstering", I have been using "linked" for many years -- well before the LinkedIn folks started, and I still think it best represents the FB/MS phenomenon. But Naomi Baron might know more about this. Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology 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 now _____________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-l] A verb for using social networking sites
by Tom Shelley 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Might I add the variant 'friendsing' to the list of social network verbs. Someone thanked me for 'Friendsing them up'. -- Tom Shelley Project Red Stripe Tel : + 44 (0) 782 441 5491 team blog : www.projectredstripe.com/blog personal blog : www.fedoralreserve.wordpress.com

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Re: [Air-l] social network migration
by David Brake 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

On 19 Jun 2007, at 23:08, Martin wrote: > When I did research for my MSc dissertation the young people that I > interviewed were all on www.bebo.com (Ages from 11 to 15). This was > two > years ago, the older of the group have migrated to myspace, but > this also > drags the younger members along with them. In my sample of (ten) MySpace users I interviewed quite a few of them used to be Bebo users (both Martin and I are in the UK where Bebo is more popular for younger kids than it might be in the US for example). My interviewees said if I remember that they moved because of the more customisable profile features of MySpace and because there were more bands on MySpace but I imagine the perception that Bebo is for younger kids may have something to do with it too. I personally suspect that much of MySpace's current userbase is likely to abandon it in favour of Facebook (or blogs or nothing) as they age and it will be dependent on attracting a continual stream of new high schoolers. While thinking about SNSes I wonder how long it will take for senior academics to take to SNSes and which one they will pick - Facebook is an obvious possibility but I suspect the difficulty of having to project one image for one's students and another for fellow academics will be too hard to overcome. LinkedIn seems too corporate-focused to me. Has anyone seen any signs of academic-focused social networking sites that might take off? --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone) Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm

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Pl change my email id on list
by forward mail 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Dear Sir., I wish to change my email id to receive the list present email forwardcomplete(a)gmail.com new one to change stocknetinfo(a)gmail.com Kindly confirm or guide further in this respect. Kind Rgds S.Narain

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