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Interesting process of Wikipedia's response to really poorly done political commentary on its site.

A little late in the game, but the wording here is really interesting because the censorship of bloggers by the Chinese government includes works with imagined information. In addition, they specifically cut off the comments option. We have a direct moment here where the 2.0 and call and response of online writing is considered poisonous to government action, even if the work is a fictional piece. The most important thing to note here is that China is now requiring all microbloggers to use their real names. We talked about how useful a tracked name can be, but in this case practicality loses over privacy.

Apparently employers will soon be using a Facebook rating scale to determine what kind of employees we'll be.

I apologize for all of the posts about WikiLeaks, but I'm fascinated by Assange's views of his work. One minute I feel like he's a hero and that these leaks really can open the masses' eyes to political corruption and scandal, but the next minutes I feel like he's playing with fire and am fearful of the consequences of uncovering these documents.

This article (which mentions the Manning situation that is the focus of the video I posted earlier today) outlines the pros and cons of prosecuting Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks, for publishing and disseminating thousands of classified State Department cables on his site. The First Amendment is at the crux of this debate: "How do you draft a law that targets WikiLeaks but leaves intact our system of press freedoms?"

Paul Conneally describes the future of humanitarianism in a hyper-connected world. The idea of re-typing and transforming texts to tweets to websites and digital maps in disaster situations etc. seems like an act of uncreative writing--something that is, in a way, re-presenting information while at the same time creating a profound new piece of writing.

In our reading this week, there is an emphasis on how the Electronic Literature Organization is working to preserve online narratives that somehow become out of date. Here is a huge reason why that is so important. As we move toward a dependence on mobile technology, Flash is officially out.

This is the entry point for the work of Loss Pequeno Glazier, what the text notes as a unique online work in which text is generated every ten seconds. I really needed some kind of visualization of this since description just doesn't quite get me there. Click begin to try it out

Very interesting article about publishing houses' efforts to keep up with the e-book world. Ties in nicely to some points Hayles made in "Print is flat; code is deep." 

Since Mikenna bookmarked a New York Times article about Pinterest, I've been thinking about what makes that site different (and, in my opinion, more successful) than other social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. According to this Huffington Post article, "What sets Pinterest apart and makes it so appealing is its focus on who we want to be -- not on what we're doing, where we've gone, how important we are or how beloved. While much of the content shared on existing social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare screams, 'Look at me,' Pinterest posts urge, 'Look at this.'" While I agree with that idea to some extent, I wonder if we can ever engage in social media/social networking without an air of "look at me." This made me think of Goldsmith's idea of Internet identity: "On the Internet, these tendencies move in different directions, with identity running the gamut from authenticity to total fabrication" (84). So, maybe Pinterest allows its users to create a more authentic identity for themselves while Facebook and Twitter promote more fabricated identities.

Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on Flash"-a response to Adobe's apparent accusations that Apple isn't "open."

Ted talk on the culturnomics/ngram project. According to Bonnie: "I think this TedTalk does a really good job of summarizing what the ngram article was all about and adds a little interest as well."

Kirby Ferguson's theory of creativity goes hand-in-hand with some of the concepts presented in Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing. Ferguson argues that copying is one of the key elements in creativity. Hunter S. Thompson, for example, retyped A Farewell to Arms and The Great Gatsby.

I thought this might be useful for anyone who wanted to build tables into their website.

Another advice page for making drop down menus (with sub-menus).

While I'm not a fan of reading online/on a computer screen-yet-I am interested in this transition from paper to digital texts (textbooks). There seems to be several advantages, such as constantly updating and affordable ($49 for a science textbook?!).

I think the title speaks for itself, and has some convergence with "Every Contact Leaves a Trace" by Kirschenbaum

Even though Dibs is right in saying that erasing your history does not essentially change anything, if you want to access a utopian fantasy, this could be helpful.

As the parameters of cultural capital changes and cyber-literacy assumes central stage, security agencies such as the FBI also take note and understand that they have to re-adjust to cater to the threat that hackers pose.

Interesting article on the use of social media to inform residents about Mexico's cartel violence.