20100702 at 08:25 
note | tagged social media 20100412 at 09:00
The twitter conversation below occurred this morning. I’m very sympathetic to Stephen’s complaint, and often don’t post stuff because the content is geo-limited or time-limited. If Stephen hadn’t complained, I wouldn’t have been prodded into offering a possible solution. It’s up to the geniuses who design these services to decide when to adopt @ or officially allow a feature such as described below.
I was much more vocal about my disappointment in twitter when pr0n-sters and spammers were winning the battle. I applaud twitter for progress in that area, and I would do some digging to offer old tweets, especially one where I really lost my temper. I would do that, but access to older tweets is still unavailable. Try searching your own tweets; they have still not fixed search. My point is… lost now.
Notes: “geo” is short for geographical, or “location-based.” Twitter here is shorthand for whatever micro-messaging platform wins, with @ (at-replies) and # (hashtags) being just one example of how to express such things. Unstated in the conversation is that there is no way for me to geo-limit my sphere of interest, or geo-limit the sphere of single tweet. In my profile, I could say I’m interested in #usaonly and any tweet could limit its sphere appropriately. In this case, I would add #usaonly to all Netflix ad Hulu tweets, and Stephen wouldn’t see them if he said he was interested in #canadaonly. Geo-unlimited tweets and profiles act as they do currently. Each image linked to its tweet.
A more expressive dialect is to either #include #usaonly (inside joke for all C and C++ programmers there) or #exclude #usaonly. This allows Stephen to register his disgust with all Hulu tweets by saying #exclude #usaonly, rather than artificially limit his sphere of interest to #canadaonly.
#canadaonly should not be needed, since Stephen is not only interested in Canadian issues… he is merely tired of being notified of content that he cannot access. I will not address the question of whether geo-limiting content is wise; it’s a very unfortunate fact.
article | tagged conversation, filter, geotag, hulu, social media, twitter 20100324 at 19:29 auto-translate this post to English
Por lo visto, Twision, en el canal Veo7 es un nuevo programa de televisión sobre las redes sociales. Habian rumores de una programa de Twitter en Inglés pero todavia no existe. Punto para España — Gol!
En el programa se discuten los deportistas famosos,como Rudy Fernandez (Portland N.B.A.), y los políticos como el ex presidente Aznar. Preguntas y quejas de la audiencia se hace usando el hashtag #veo7 en Twitter propio y también por Veo7tv en facebook. Cinco días han pasado desde la emisión, y las redes sociales todavía están zumbando. Parece que el programa es un éxito.
Twision (Primer programa) from Veo Television on Vimeo.
Programa 1 de Twision, el primer programa en televisión que gira entorno a las redes sociales, en especial de twitter. Conducido por Melchor Miralles (@melchormiralles) y Javier Abrego (@fjabrego).
Diccionario — N.B. la letra “w” casi no se usa, y se puede cambiar por “u” o “ü”
Español
English
redes sociales
social networks
tuiteado
tweeted
hashtag #veo7
Spanish social network “tuenti.com”
jeje (je) jaja (ja)
tee hee (hee) haha (ha) — also “LOL”
20091222 at 08:18
(you really expect me to give up and go home?)
Overshadowing this issue is the way search engines crawl the Internet and rank pages on relevance. Google and Bing seem to be the two left standing. I remember having to sift through pages of AltaVista results back in the day.
Search engines can be considered your primary filter for the Internet; but as they are bombarded with new content from “Content Farms” they — or we — must adapt. Some think “social search” will become the new primary filter, creating ad-hoc “ambient feeds.” These feeds would use human filtering to fight search engines defeated by 1) “SEO” gaming, or 2) drowning in a sea of mediocre content.
I already use Google reader, Twitter and FriendFeed for much of my content discovery; search engines are most useful when I need references for a topic I’m writing about. However, it’s hard to imagine this solution working for the vast majority — who don’t “stay on top of” breaking news, and are happy enough with answers returned from any old portal like Yahoo.com or Ask.com.
Completely separate from yet completely bound up with the issue is business and profit, open collaboration and community and social issues, online public libraries and access to educational resources. Many blogs are profitable and growing, where news organizations are failing; some by federation and streamlining, some by ad revenue and huge traffic numbers. Some have started down the road of quantity over quality, and often echo each other, especially in the tech sector. This isn’t nearly as large a problem as that presented by “Content Farms” however. The number of “hot stories” in the tech sector is a drop in the ocean compared to the number of different search engine queries at any given moment. The latter is what “Content Farms” aim to capture.
(if you don’t accept our low buyout offer, we will bury you until dead)
“Moderated collaboration or curated knowledge gardens”:
“Content farms”:
(don’t let this happen to you)
Required reading
(live to fight another day)
Still images from 300 (film) Imdb link
article | tagged Internet, business, collaboration, profit, search, social media 20091202 at 19:25 
Youtube user “mwesch” is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University and represents to me the very best potential of YouTube and “citizen media.”
This is a playlist of some of his hugely successful YouTube videos.
From his page at Kansas State:
Dubbed “the explainer” by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the implications of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on culture, technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in over 15 languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award, the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology, and he was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic.
video | tagged activism, collaboration, diy, social media, video 
