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Ze Frank's 2004 TED Talk is a discussion of online networking, social toys, and digital audience interaction in standup comedy format. It starts in a humorous, disjointed format similar to The Show, the vlog-a-day project which he created 2 years later. For a shorter, more serious discussion of the potential of online social spaces to give people novel opportunities to creatively express themselves, start at 14:00.

Eli Pariser discusses why and how online gatekeepers like Google and Facebook filter content, often giving users local, feel-good "information junkfood" that doesn't expand their world or challenge their point of view.

Ze Frank's more serious 2010 TED Talk, in which he discusses a number of past and recent projects and talks about the "life" lived in technological interactions, and the great potential for creating real social and emotional connections through online networks.

In keeping with the xkcd love, here is the updated map of the internet (or online communities) If I had to pick a public space out of the internet, it would probably be Facebook, which is by far the largest on this map.

"It was a lark, to begin with. A Dinosaur Comic, a few messageboard posts, and all of a sudden so many people had so many good ideas that it seemed natural to put a book together."

They made #1, and accidentally knocked Glenn Beck's book to #3 on its first day of sales. http://machineofdeath.net/a/gb-audio

NPR report on an Iran based myspace/itunes site shares music by underground (and rather illegal) artists. The profiled song, I Shot You Babe, is a remix of Sonny and Cher's song, with gunshots in the background. The artist DJ Foundation, is cloaked in Banksy-esque anonymity.