A little piece from Bruce Schneier (Wired) on the Lessons from the Facebook Riots touches on that ubiquitous touchy subject, privacy. More specifically — control; choice in disclosure. Schnei

In the Boston Globe today, Geoff Edgers reviews and recaps Roger’s band, the Byrds, on the occassion of the release of a new boxset of their work. Amongst the Edgers work is a great narrated slideshow of the band’s history and an oral history constructed from interviews with the living band members sans David Crosby.
David McConville’s office/home/studio in Asheville is a great Power of 10 homage to Buckminster Fuller. Check out this Flickr set of the outside.
That’s Billion with a B (as reported by the inaccessible Wall Street Journal). But as TechCrunch and TechCrunch commentors point out: We’ve been there before. Back in March. Negoitiations failed then. Will they continue? Or will we be reading another story along the same line in a few months?
One thing I like about being in Chapel Hill where the bus rides are free, our new Town Manager participates in Car Free Day:
Many Town of Chapel Hill employees, including Town Manager Roger Stancil, will leave their cars
Poynteronline, SearchEngineWatch and the Editors Weblog post comments, the court order is available from Chilling Effects…
I wonder what ever happened to the AFP case in the US and whether the ‘hot news’ angle was picked up on?
ThisNext Launches Social Shopping
Pandora is a music exploration service that, according to website blurbs, uses larges volumes of metadata to help listeners find “more music like …. (an artist or a song played by an artist)” … I’ve looked around the website but don’t see that they’ve published much about the schema used, but am still enjoying listening to the music. A summary of the related Music Genome Project is available on pandora.com, where they write “each song in the Music Genome Project is analyzed using up to 400 distinct musical characteristics by a trained music analyst…” At any rate, it is enjoyable and attests to some of the many pleasures that can be found through music and metadata.
This just in at PressThink: Reuters is giving $100K of funding to NewAssignment, which should kick things off there in a good way. Jay writes about the details and the plans for the money on PressThink.
Songphan’s iTeau Dirt has collected links to sites covering the coup in Thai — in English and in Thai.
He also has a smart and informativ
On her blog, danah boyd notices the frustration amongst sociologists over the term “social networking” — a perfectly good sociological term when they have finally agreed on the definition — being used for web sites whose social use in somewhat dubious at best say LinkedIn or worse as a way for parents and others to express moral panic through their confusion over the new uses of technologies by their kids — as in “little janie was out social networking with strangers on myspace!” when janie gets a note from another greenday fan whose picture looks a little more like billie jo at the age of billy joel.
In the end, danah sticks with “social networking” Should we?
Or better when on History Channel? Inquiring minds (and relatives) have been asking: You did this take with Heather Hesketh for the History Channel a month or so back and we haven’t seen the show yet. When will it air?

Who: Craig Silverstein, Google Tech Director (and 3rd employee)
When: Thur
Hit be so sad; hit makes me heart quake like a tub in a storm. No logo! But a great rejection letter.
Ed Cone writes to remind us of Greensboro’s premier blog/culture/technology gathering, ConvergeSouth, to be held Friday and Saturday October 13 and 14.
Amongst those attending and leading sessions will be:
Elizabeth Edwards of OneAmerica Committee
Jim Rosenberg aka Mr. Sun
Lex Alexander - The Greensboro Model
Robert Scoble - 10 Ways to a Killer Blog
Maryam Scoble - Maryamie
John Robinson - Editor, News & Record
Allen Johnson - N&R Editorial Page Editor
Daniel Rubin - Philadelphia Inquirer
Bill Wood - NC A&T Help Desk Manager
And of course Ed hisself.
With their recent Championship alot of the people in North Carolina have jumped on the band wagon to support the Carolina Hurricanes, as well as hockey in general. As someone who was a Hurricanes fan ever since they came from Hartford, I find it hilarious that people all of a sudden like a team that they didnt pay any attention to when they weren’t so good. Another thing is now you cant find Hockey gear anywhere in the area. I’ve never played in and organized league, but i’ve always played pick up games and when i went looking for a new stick and gloves, they were no where to be found. I had to drive fayetteville to get what i needed. I also notice that when we go to play, there is always that person who just started playing. they come out wearing Hurricanes shirts and dont even know how to skate, but yet feel they “know” enough to play with the big boys. But after one check in the boards, they’re done. People who have been fans, or have played for a long time understand everything abou the sport which i will say has tons of rules. i just hate that there is some ppl who criticize things about the team and trades when they haven’t been paying attention for years.
He is definatly a story im himself. He is 3 years older than me and my other roommate, and works most of the day. He is as he describes a “Functional Alcoholic” which is what i think some what not true. But if he wants to call himself that im not gonna stop him. He works at and Italia
Lawmakers take aim at social-networking sites

Not the PT Cruiser which is cruisin’ fine now thanks, but the country of Portugal. David was there for Fulldome 2006’s Workshop in Immersive Cinema as one of the faculty/speakers for the event/
In the Sunday Styles section of the 17 September NY Times, Stephanie Rosenbloom (A Sense of Belonging among Belongings) writes about a new social network service, zebo.com, describing it as a “MTV Cribs for the masses.” Zebo identifies itself as “the world’s largest repository of what people own.” Here, you can post what you own, what you claim to own, or what you’d like to own. I love it. Why? You can make your virtual friends online (say MySpace), then have them over to check out your place (zebo), providing, in lieu of a floor plan, a detailed list of everything you own. You can even organize your list to reflect the order of how your virtual guest would encounter the items if an “actual” visit — depending on your intention, that could mean a trip from the front door, through the foyer, into the living room, kitchen, etc., or, pardon my raciness, just straight in the door and up to your bedroom (thread count specifications will help those with sensitive, delicate or pampered skin). And, the more detailed, the better one can case your home from on-line and identify items for their local fence.
Oh, and I looked at some profiles — people are also listing pets, in addition to their material goods — e.g., playstations and automobiles and misspelled designer shoes (Blahnik, not Blanik, you zeboites).
Why else do I love it? Because our identity isn’t just our values, beliefs, preferences, political affiliations, relationship status, etc. (boring!) — it is also very much what we own. So, I say thanks zebo.com for giving us all another avenue to show it off. More opportunities to covet what others have (envy for sport) will benefit us all. Not only can you attempt to keep up with the Joneses’ on your street, but you will now have the information to keep up with Joneses’ in Arkansas, Winnipeg, and Nevada.
One more thing — as I wrote above, you can also just register “what you want.” I appreciate that, allowing me to let people know what I want rather than having to wait — impatiently — for him or her to ask (and today, that is this).
Fred Stutzman AIMs me to say that he’s in today’s New Scientist talking about the end of privacy and ide
My sister and I had a really funny conversation over dinner last night about how what you dislike really says more about you than what you supposedly 'like'. I mean, almost everyone likes choclate but I'd rather hear about the person that doesn't like it and why.
I googled 'i don't like' and I think it's one of my favorite search results ever.
So, here goes this is what I irrationally dislike:
http://www.dooce.com/ - "Having Dated Walking Red Flags"
My sister sent me this link (it's the September 15th entry I'm referring to btw) and it mentioned how a blog about relationship dealbreakers is a great way to spice up your material. Now, I won't go into detail about what mine are but this tip is absolutely dead-on (just look at the comments for evidence)
As I wrote before, knowing someone's dislikes are definitely a great way to get to know more about a person. What would be funny and interesting to see is a social networking sites that comes up with more creative categories in the 'about me' section outside of the typical 'interests'. I know I freeze when people just ask me what my 'hobbies' are but if they're like "What's your favorite reality show?" I can pop out my completely embarassing response, "Top Model" just like that.
Personally, I'd rather see "favorite meal of the day", "relationship dealbreakers", "favorite childhood tv show", etc. Those are really what make a person unique and lets face it, I'm so tired of people putting in their interests that the like 'having fun'. ("OMG. look! ___ is interested in having fun too?! God, finally someone who isn't interested 'having an absolutely miserable time'!")
And it'd be cool to meet another girl who also can't date a guy who wears gold chains.
Let's compare and contrast the complaints shall we?
(PS- you're not.)
I guess all this can make one sympathize with the celebrities who complain about the poparazzi. Add some pictures, expensive clothes, anorexia, and (maybe) talent and you've got the people.com home page.
If there's gonna be a news feed, I demand details and pictures of the parties at hand looking angry without makeup carrying a coffee and commentary on why that couple that I see everywhere suddenly broke up. If you're gonna provide stalker tools you gotta go all the way. Perhaps message boards where people can discuss the news feeds? or even better, how about we receive an Oscar (or more realistically a Teen Choice award) and millions of dollars from the deal?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2422125 - Como What?!
I know I already did my generic facebook complaining post but seriously, why would they do that?! (By that, if you are too lazy to read the article they're going to open up facebook to people not in college or high school who receive invitations from current users)
Facebook's whole appeal is its exclusivity.
Ok maybe that's not always true but anyone with friends who are not in high school or college and are interested in being in a social networking site are already on myspace anyways.
It will be very interesting to see what the effects of all this are since Facebook profiles often contain a lot more personal information than on other sites (i.e. - residence hall, cell phone number, class schedule, etc.).
Either way, I probably won't be creeped out enough to change until I get a message that says "Hot pics" or an equally disturbing message from someone who I really don't even know or could possibly know. Not sure what a message would say that would creep college boys out...but I'm sure I'll hear about an instance of one after this debuts and it will be hilarious.
so i promised in the last posting, that i would give a little insight on my roommates and the crazy things that happen. first of is Mubin, or “Bean” as we call him. Judging by his name he’s from Pakistan, well his parents are atleast. He’s been one of my friends for about 3 years and i drug him to Chapel Hill with me when i transfered. There have been alot of crazy times that we’ve had. for example he was drunk the other night and began to try and arrest our footrest. As well as beat up my friends old bike which he said was talkin bad about him. Anyway there are more good times to come.
My dear friend Todd (fellow west-side Cleveland native and oldest of twelve siblings; I am only the fourth of a scant six) will be in Durham this week to co-star in an informal talk for the Wednesdays at the Center series at Duke’s John Hope Franklin Center. Another upcoming talk that might be of interest to my classmates in Paul’s JOMC 490 is “Portraying a Social Disaster: How the Media Makes Sense out of Chaos,” by Jon Pessah, Grant Farred, and Angela Jarman on September 27th at noon.
Specifics:
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Mood Swings: The Aesthetics of Ambient Emergence
N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Gannon