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I am posting this as an example of the blurring boundary between what is advertisement or product placement and entertainment. This was sponsored by the car company.

I have so many things to say about OK Go--they are absolutely exemplary of a lot of the things we're talking about, especially considering their history with ditching their record label early-on, their success as YouTube sensations (you know, the treadmill video--yeah, THOSE GUYS--for "Here It Goes Again"), and generally making their way by creating/promoting/identifying as an independent brand. Interesting to note along with Chevy's sponsoring of the car? Gretsch donated all of the amps and guitars (288 guitars in all), 11 of which were preserved in their dusty condition to be sold for charity. Proceeds benefit the Fender Music Foundation, a group focused in music education for children and adults. More info here: http://www.gretschguitars.com/blog/product-plugs/own-one-of-11-guitars-used-in-ok-gos-needingwanting-video/ If you're interested in more about how the instrument-playing mechanisms in the car worked, check out some of the graphics available from this article in Car and Driver: http://www.caranddriver.com/features/car-commercialism-the-making-of-ok-gos-needing-getting-music-video

"Calgary police could soon go behind the lens for a change to shoot their own news videos addressing community concerns. Other frontline officers may be given the opportunity to inform the public through frequently updated blogs. These two initiatives and many others are on the table as the Calgary Police Service maps out a new strategy to interact with the public like never before."

Digital technology is dissolving media silos. This video shows how much media convergence is going on today as paid, earned and owned media blend seamlessly across media channels. How will the future of media impact consumers, brands and the marketing industry? Visit http://nochannels.com to share your opinion and to point out examples of this media blend trend

From the website:  "LibraryMixer is a free website where lovers of music, movies, TV shows, games, software, books, pictures can list what they have in their libraries. You share your library list with your friends and recommend stuff you like that they can get directly from you. You don't need to upload anything onto LibraryMixer! The best way to learn more about LibraryMixer (besides using it!) is to watch the introduction video or read the text version. https://www.librarymixer.com/info/faq"

(I haven't been able to use the program for more than half an hour so far ... a lot of this will probably end up moderately incorrect.) Rather than ripping off music from anonymous users on sketchy p2p networks, or grabbing thousands of fragments from hundreds of nodes to synthesize a final piece of content, LibraryMixer combined with the Mixologist allows for personal interaction and communication about an item. The program and website integrates an instant messenger with a check-out system. The check-out system allows individuals to browse the general library, and select things they have, they want, or that they can review. Based on this information, users communicate with others via the friends list and instant messenger. From here, individuals directly connect with one another to transfer, or 'lend', the desired items. Physical items can be posted on the website too, but they require different methods for loaning items. I don't see any way to determine whether an individual rightfully owns a file they loan to others. I'm also not sure about if the file is copied to the transferee's machine and remains on the original, or is removed from the original machine in the process. However, there must be a direct connection made between the content owner (in whatever sense of the word 'ownership' we mean) and the individual loanee. This direct connection also ensures more privacy during a file transfer than p2p networks and bittorrent. (Unless you don't know the person. This is also exactly how trojan viruses and backdoors would be installed through AIM.) I think a good example of 'open source' in relation to 'social' would be the sheer amount of activity on discussion boards like http://ubuntuforums.org/. The lessons learned in this type of place regarding collaborative problem solving are not only abundant, but also applicable to tasks like coordinating large-scale real-world events

I've used the website a bit further. It seems that the community infrastructure is there for a helpful, friendly, personal community. This is entirely unlike anonymous discussion boards where people love to put on the ring of Gyges and succumb to ... well, I don't have any friends on the website yet so I can't really tell. Again, seems like solid community infrastructure in comparison to a site like bt.etree.org or demonoid.

My immediate thoughts are against setting standards for being a "social media maven." It seems that the abilities, standards, and etiquette contextualizing what determines a social media expert are changing so rapidly that it is difficult to set such specific questions rating expertise. I think these are good questions, but it seems the answers are either subjective or subject to change at a moments notice. For example, who says I can't upload a slick graphic containing contact info in my facebook timeline banner photo (that is, until facebook skewers this feature too)? Why is this a no-no? Unless the individual asking the question is actually referring to the content type allowable in this field .... in that case, it would be an image.

We talked about Nyan cat. It used to be quite the cred to report how long you could last looking at the "longest videos". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKzqP4-0Z6M

The story of this man's video postings and the community that built and comforted each other online after he passed away. Quite the character. see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edarem

Uno, Nessuno, Centomila (One, No One and One Hundred Thousand) is a classic novel by Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. Published in 1925, it recounts the tragedy of Vitangelo Moscarda, a man who struggles to reclaim a coherent and unitary identity for himself in the face of an inherently social and multi-faceted world. What would Moscarda identity tragedy look like today? In this article we transplant Moscarda's identity play from its offline setting to the contemporary arena of social media and online social networks. With reference to established theories on identity construction, performance, and self-presentation, we re-imagine how Moscarda would go about defending the integrity of his selfhood in the face of the discountenancing influences of the online world.

Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author provides another interesting facet to this discussion. In the play, a family of characters arrive at a rehearsal-in-progress, begging for the producer, playwright, and other actors to write down and perform the family's story. The family members do not exist outside of their interactions with the rest of the family; the characters themselves cannot exist without the acknowledgement and assistance of the artists; and, despite traditional lines between real life and fiction, every family member character and "real-life" character is altered by the interaction. How much are our identities--as we experience them--dependent on others for validation? Are we performing our lives for others? At what point do we (can we) draw boundaries between spectator and performer, especially in relation to identity creation?

boundaries of physical object vs. ideas, technical literacies

" Noetic Media where stories cross media boundaries"