A social networking site enabling artists and other creators to get a "kickstart."

This is a wiki - so anyone can edit - that provides collectively authored and accessible free tax advice. An excellent example of collective effort.

Report on "digital natives." Includes studies of relationships, online gaming, facebookery, etc. Interesting resource and shows the mainstreaming of these topics.

CELEBDAQ is a celebrity stock exchange game. Instead of shares in companies you buy shares in celebrities. The aim of the game: to make as much profit as you can by buying and selling 'shares' in listed celebrities.

An essay on computer games as a "folk genre," situated between high art and popular culture, and very much invented by its users. Includes useful reference to the Sims.

"is an open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web"

Disney books go visual. "Reading made magaical" - which claims it wasn't before. Looks at the books: somewhere between kindle and computer games.

Here's an online book about networked art - and the book itself (the essays posted online) are open to revision, commentary, alteration... so you can participate in creating an academic book.

Makes tweeting "real."

Interesting Moby Dick re-write with Japanese pictorial characters. Also interesting for the "Kickstart" project site.

Cell phone novels are a big deal in Japan. The novel are written via cell phone using short text messages. Unfortunately for us, they're in Japanese. According to Wired: "A mobile phone novel typically contains between 200 and 500 pages, with each page containing about 500 Japanese characters. The novels are read on a cell phone screen page by page, the way one would surf the web, and are downloadable for around $10 each."

A website of cool stuff, diverse topics and opinions. Some of it's nutty, some fascinating. Much of it relates to individual freedom of expression on the net and beyond - a fundamental issue of authorship. It's also a great source for useful tools.

About Josh Harris, crucial though little-known internet cultural pioneer. He created situations where people lived or partied or etc. completely in public - in front of webcams. It was sensationalistic and tabloid-like but also capitalized on the narrative possibilities of the net, with the multimediated websites creating narratives out of the banal and everyday and voyeuristic.

This is an article about what makes an object on the web valuable, what gives it "quality," in a world where everything is a copy of copy of copy (as the digital world it).

Remixing - is the authorship? is mashing and mixing someone else's work an active of creativity and authorship?

Lots of automatic language/text mixers and generators

Example of a collaborative image...

Web 2.0 and multimedia in 4 and a half minutes.

Multimedia writing mapped back onto the world. Is it "read" by the body?