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TV's Killer App: Social Video Viewing? | The Underwire from Wired.com

As television audiences migrate online, media companies are eyeing social networking as a possible killer app for hooking viewers through their laptops. From simple chat rooms to unique games, the race is on to develop content that complements traditional shows — the more creative and addictive the better.

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Are we really collaborating? :: Blog :: Headshift

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Media's last diehard? -Victoria Barnsley (HarperCollins)

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The technology of these e-ink screens is developing rapidly. Right now, put in television terms, we’re still in the 1950is with a black and white model. But the future is bright and colourful. In the months to come we’ll have foldable screens, colour screens, screens which can handle moving images, screens with interactive clickable advertising And a company I think you’ll be hearing a lot about soon is Plastic Logic. Using technology developed in Cambridge they’re going to be producing an ereader with a flexible screen.
all the different players that make up the digital landscape - the network owners, the device manufacturers, the platform operators and the likes of us, the content providers. All l of these players, derive their value from different parts of the chain. The problem for us, is that for the first three – content is something to be squeezed in the value chain. For them, content is like petrol in a car -the relatively cheap motive power of a costly and complex machine. Whereas, for the content providers, content is more akin to wine in a bottle -something of high value in a cheap encapsulation. We want to retain the high value of content, but have it delivered on cheap, multiple, globally available, platforms, networks and devices.
Can everyone have a profitable future? Because the digital revolution is being driven by the first three, surprise, surprise, the price of content is being driven down. This is obviously very worrying. Equally worrying, is the fact that some of these players, are able to fund the development of all aspects of the value chain themselves. This brings me on to my fourth challenge which is media convergence. Sky is a good example of a company, that started as network player which went on to invest heavily in content and finally in hardware. Of more relevance to publishing, are the likes of Google and Amazon, who are broadening their remit and are both now in the hardware game.
Unfortunately, the book publishing industry, is probably too fragmented, and undercapitalised, to follow this route. Instead, it has to make sure it adds sufficient value to content, to retain its place in this converging world. Publishers recognise that they can’t subsume the activities of other players but they have to work with them, in a model that protects the value of content, and their role in developing it and selling it. That’s why the recent deal with Google, is of such historic importance.
Thankfully, the book industry is in better shape than the music industry. And I’m not as worried as some by risk of disintermediation. A publisher’s job is complex, and I believe we still have an important role to play going forward.
The old model whereby a publisher commissioned a work and then went through a series of steps to deliver it to a retailer, who delivered it to an unknown reader, isn’t enough. The interactivity of the Web allows readers to play a part in the process, to engage with authors and each other and in some instances, become authors themselves. The old linear model is becoming circular. For 500 years, the consumption of books was largely a private affair but the Internet has socialised that experience. If publishers are canny, they will see this as an opportunity to add more value and to create new revenue streams.
Going forward, we need to operate two models: - the existing model, whereby we add value by selecting, nurturing, marketing and finally selling content to the consumer – in whatever form they demand and a second model whereby we create value in the experiences around that content where we facilitate the dialogue between writers and readers.
This project is a purely marketing exercise aimed at increasing the continued relevance of Doris’s work to new generations but it also illustrates the kind of value, that can be added, by a publisher, to the experience of consuming a text. Connecting readers, writers, scholars, reviewers and bloggers, is all part of a publisher’s new mandate and with this project, we’re doing just that.
The interesting thing about authonomy is that by putting us at the centre of a hub of interactivity, between readers and would-be writers it provides us with a new business model. In addition to being a new pool for talent spotting, we’ve also created a community of people who love reading and writing. It’s growing at such a rate - over 2m page impressions in just 6 weeks – that we’ll soon be able to start generating advertising income.
The last initiative, I’d like to mention, is our most ambitious project to date – which we’ll be launching in January next year. It’s called Book Army and it’s a fantastic social networking site organised around books and authors. Every book and every author that’s in print
the secret weapon, in BookArmy’s arsenal, is a sophisticated algorithm, which generates book recommendations, based on feedback from other readers about their likes and dislikes.

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OpenID being Balkanized even as Google, Microsoft sign on

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Studies: Social networks exploding, may appear in government

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Twitter trends

see zeldman:
http://twitter.com/zeldman/statuses/822068988
and
http://www.zeldman.com/2008/04/27/content-outsourcing-and-the-disappearing-personal-site/

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ProjectVRM Blog » A new business model for news

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/trunk – BuddyPress – Trac

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Social Networking in Plain English Video – 5min.com

very elementary, but useful

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PLoS ONE: Dynamics of Alliance Formation and the Egalitarian Revolution

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most known hunter-gatherer societies are egalitarian [8]–[10]. Their weak leaders merely assist a consensus-seeking process when the group needs to make decisions
approach for studying the dynamics of alliance emergence applicable where game-theoretic methods are not practical
increasing the frequency of interactions (which can be achieved in a number of ways) and decreasing the affinity decay rate. Most interestingly, the model shows that the shift from a state with no alliances to one or more alliances typically occurs in a phase-transition like fashion. Even more surprisingly, under certain conditions (that include some cultural inheritance of social networks) a single alliance comprising all members of the group can emerge in which the resource is divided evenly. That is, the competition among nonequal individuals can paradoxically result in their eventual equality. We emphasize that in our model, egalitarianism emerges from political dynamics of intense competition between individuals for higher social and reproductive success rather than by environmental constraints, social structure, or cultural processes.
increasing the frequency of interactions (which can be achieved in a number of ways) and decreasing the affinity decay rate. Most interestingly, the model shows that the shift from a state with no alliances to one or more alliances typically occurs in a phase-transition like fashion. Even more surprisingly, under certain conditions (that include some cultural inheritance of social networks) a single alliance comprising all members of the group can emerge in which the resource is divided evenly. That is, the competition among nonequal individuals can paradoxically result in their eventual equality. We emphasize that in our model, egalitarianism emerges from political dynamics of intense competition between individuals for higher social and reproductive success rather than by environmental constraints, social structure, or cultural processes.
modern human behavior is strongly shaped by evolved culture [31] and might not be a good indicator of factors acting during its origin
In our model, coalitions and alliances emerge from simple processes based on individuals using only limited “local” information
they typically do not capture the dynamic nature of coalitions and/or are not directly applicable to individuals lacking the abilities to enter into binding agreements and to obtain, process, and use complex information on costs, benefits, and consequences of different actions involving multiple parties [45]. These approaches do not account for the effects of friendship and the memory of past events and acts which all are important in coalition formation and maintenance.

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Hands on: NPR gets social with new community

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BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The rise of the third estate

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Grazing for Digital Natives » Social Learning

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SocialText 3.0 blends Facebook, Twitter, and the Enterprise

SocialText 3.0 is (or will be in the near term) an enterprise mashup of Facebook, FriendFeed, enterprise microblogging, and the wiki.

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Full Text: Keen vs. Weinberger - WSJ.com

we are not replicating the mainstream media. We're building something new. We're doing it together. Its fundamental elements are not bricks of content but the mortar of links, and links are connections of meaning and involvement. We're creating an infrastructure of meaning, miscellaneous but dripping with potential for finding and understanding what matters to us.

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When everyone claims to be an author, there can be no art, no reliable information, no audience.
you join a long list of those who predict the decline of civilization and pin the blame on the latest popular medium, except this time it's not comic books, TV, or shock jock radio. It's the Web.
from the beginning the Web has been about inventing ways to make its own massness -- its miscellaneousness -- useful.
The Web is abundance, while the old media are premised -- in their model of knowledge as well as in their economics -- on scarcity.
You bemoan the loss of "the essential epistemological anchor of truth" and the "impartiality of the authoritative, accountable expert." It's easy to agree with that when it comes to facts, the sort of stuff we consult almanacs for. But when it comes to the more important and harder issues, where we want to understand our world -- science, politics, the arts -- are you quite as comfortable with the notion that there are identifiable epistemological anchors? Or is your epistemology in fact rooted in the scarcity that has silently shaped the traditional media?
The more we know, the less we will know. You see, to use this chaotic media efficaciously, we need to invent our own taxonomies
You and I agree that genuine talent is scarce and needs nurturing. But your picture of talent is formed by the binary view the traditional media have forced on us. Because it's been so expensive to produce, market and distribute cultural products (books, records, films), the lucky few who get published get access to a mass audience, and the rest trail off the map. So, traditional distribution makes it look like talent is a you-got- it-or-you-don't proposition -- you're an artist or you're a monkey. That doesn't reflect the scarcity of talent so much as the scarcity of distribution
Talent is not either/or. Recording contracts are.

With the Web, we can still listen to the world's greatest, but we can find others who touch us even though their technique isn't perfect.

Note the "we can find." We couldn't if finding required creating our own taxonomies
you ask if I'm convinced that the Web benefits intellectuals. Yes, I am. And that's because, while some talent is indeed solitary, many types of talent prosper in connection with others. That is especially true for the development of ideas. Knowledge is generally not a game for one. It is and always has been a collaborative process. And it is a process, not as settled, sure, and knowable by authorities as it would be comforting to believe
Without any doubt, I am in the richest, most stimulating, most fruitful swirl of thought, knowledge, ideas and feeling ever in my life...far more productive than when I was consigned to talking only with professionals and credentialed experts. This is fundamental to my experience of the Web
I agree wholeheartedly with your comments about the online academic community. Any medium which brings experts and professional authorities together is healthy. I am thrilled that you've discovered such a rich intellectual community online. If this is Web 2.0, then I love Web 2.0. I'm a Cluetrainer when it comes to serious people conversing fruitfully on the Internet. The problem, however, with Web 2.0 is that most of the conversation seems to be taking place anonymously, conducted -- in a manner of speaking -- by people who are more interested in vulgar insult than respectful intellectual intercourse. The comments sections of most major website are littered with this trash. As is the blogosphere. So, yes, the Internet is great for experts to discover one another and conduct responsible conversation. It's the monkey chorus on the democratized web that bother me.
My biggest concern with Web 2.0 is the critique of mainstream media that, implicitly or otherwise, drives its agenda. It's the idea that mainstream media is a racket run by gatekeepers protecting the interests of a small, privileged group of people. Thus, by flattening media, by doing away with the gatekeepers, Web 2.0 is righting cultural injustice and offering people like your friends Joe and Maria an opportunity to monetize their talent. But the problem is that gatekeepers -- the agents, editors, recording engineers -- these are the very engineers of talent. Web 2.0's distintermediated media unstitches the ecosystem that has historically nurtured talent. Web 2.0 misunderstands and romanticizes talent. It's not about the individual -- it's about the media ecosystem.
our culture overall would be foolish to stick within the safe boundaries of the old credentialing system...

Especially since the old talent system, the fate of which you bemoan actually doesn't work the way you say it does, and does not yield the results you claim for it. The mainstream media's business model does not aim at nurturing talent. It aims at moving units. It therefore does exactly what you complain the Web does: It panders to the market.
The Web is only a web because we're building links that say "Here's something worth your time, and here's why." It's a little act of selflessness in which a person who has our attention directs it elsewhere.
There is therefore hope here that in the midst of the ever-present low culture, we will together educate our tastes, seeing more of the world than the traditional media could ever show us, and learn to appreciate it. Included in this hope is, of course, the fact that the traditional gatekeepers are themselves online, telling us what is worth attending to and why. Now their influence depends on how convincing and articulate they are, not on their control over the on-off switch on the broadcast tower or printing press. That is, the gate keeping goes from dictating what we can read to telling us what we ought to read.
It's way too early to declare that artists will not be financially supported on the Web. We are at the beginning of a painful transition. We're not yet done inventing.
The Web is not mass culture, so we can't just look at the most popular sites to see what's going on. Most of the action is in the long tail of users, sites with just a handful of links going to them. So, pointing to the "short head" of highly popular sites not only tells us little, it views the Web through a distorting lens, as if sites were read-only publications rather than part of a web of conversations.
Yochai Benkler's seminal "The Wealth of Networks" (which is available, of course, in its entirety for free online)
Most of all, a serious discussion of amateurism has to be able to admit that it may have some benefits. For example:
The rise of amateurism creates a new ecology in which personal relationships can add value to the experience
Collections of amateurs can do things that professionals cannot

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An Introduction to Thought Networking | Primal Fusion

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PdF2008 Talks: Doug Rushkoff on the New Renaissance

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Create | Lifestream Blog

Here is a list of resources that can be used to create a Lifestream. They are broken down by scripts that can be used to host on your own site and sites that provide functionality to host them for you. (Like FriendFeed)

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Digital Natives » Technology and collaboration: can DN manage their own learning activities?

Andre Valle posts on Fridays. His intro: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/09/05/digital-natives-around-the-world-introduction/

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