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My blog post on the new social networking site, Togetherville, that's specifically aimed at 6-10-year-olds. Looks at the reception from the media so far, and whether or not it can be an effective tool against cyberbullying as it effects kids in this very young demographic.

Privacy addressed by Zukerberg. Shall we believe him? Article goes hand in hand with this week's readings. 

Facebook apologized and promised to improve it's privacy control for its users, by making it more impler and more coherence for users to understand and further to take the control back.

Open Letter from Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook's new privacy setting

When it works the world of instant connectivity and social convergence is a wonderful place. Although I personally find the comments illustrative in a more depressing fashion. Derogatory comments, hotness debate and sudden normalising of "Welcome to the internet" where women are sex things and men are whatever they want to be.

This is like PJFenwick in 3D. Eric Gradman has great art work "The Cloud Mirror" which demonstrates many interesting social features about privacy, identity and people. Like we queue up to make idiots of ourselves and hand over our password on public computers without question. All done using Facebook Connect and Python.

What do technologies which main function provides a platform for the illegal sharing resort to once the crack down starts? Even though these companies did not directly share the copyrighted sources, they did provide the technology for their users to do so. In the case of Lime Wire, they seem to be choosing plain ignorance of the law to continue their open networks. They have countless years of promises to music executives to create filters, and screening for pirated downloads, but have constantly chose to not follow through. Once again they seem to be choosing the, "we will do it now," stance, but it seems it may just be empty promises once again and the ultimate end to the most popular site for illegal music sharing.

A fair amount has been written about the politics of net neutrality, but its technical aspects have generally pushed the debate to the fringes of the mainstream press.