Mar­tin Wat­ten­berg — ManyEyes

http://www.many-eyes.com/

part of the goal was to democ­ra­tize visu­al­iza­tion
saw a lot of polit­i­cal usage
saw cit­i­zen activism
also saw play
eg, tag cloud of Shakespeare’s favorite words was used to high­light spe­cific words to cre­ate poetic phrases
blogs as a social “petri dish“
maybe the goal is con­nec­tiv­ity, placed on blog where con­ver­sa­tion can be pushed
there’s some com­pet­i­tive upload­ing now that is polit­i­cal
have a very con­ser­v­a­tive per­son on the site right now who is chal­leng­ing them with what could be con­sid­ered a rant in a dif­fer­ent for­mat about how you inter­act with data

you are a blog­ger — Anil Dash
we don’t get far out­side of our world, and as a result, we don’t cre­ate tools out­side of it
blog­ging is hip-hop
hip hop is cur­rently dri­ving our cul­ture
links are beats
the core of the behav­ior we have is sam­pling; is still con­sid­ered sub­ver­sive
both are still seen as not being a legit­i­mate art form
Apple — rip | mix | burn
turnta­bles out­sell gui­tars
we’re also not buy­ing print­ing presses a lot
the reac­tion when hip hop came out is “that’s not music“
we had the same reac­tion to blogs — it’s not media
what we can learn is that we can see where the threats are going to come from

we link to con­tent that even­tu­ally gets pulled down
the com­pa­nies frown on the fact that you are the vehi­cle of dis­tri­b­u­tion
they will rail­road us if we let them
hip hop is more than just rap — it’s freestyling
graf­fiti is OpenID
the abil­ity to be entre­pre­neur­ial
out­siders don’t get it — we have to pay atten­tion
vio­lence and misog­yny are what rap­pers were knwon for
we’re seen as medium, not man­ners, by out­siders
have to think about the impli­ca­tions of tools
“con­scious” is a genre

Justin Kan — Justin.tv
started out as a 24/7 broad­cast of his life to the inter­net
at first, walked around try­ing to enter­tain peo­ple 24/7
was like a roller coaster ride to inter­net fame
first les­son he learned is that there are a lot of ass­holes on the inter­net when they had the police bust in on him at home
build­ing a plat­form to let any­one do this online — almost ready to open it up to any­one to live broad­cast
thinks we’ll see a huge num­ber of video broad­casts that will vio­late copyright

Teen Sec­ond Life at a Glance (Don’t touch mah bukkit) — Lane Law­ley
showed his house in TSL
rea­son #1 he can’t live on the ground in TSL
1 — pub­lic school; thinks schools should pro­vide bet­ter tech­no­log­i­cal edu­ca­tion; he still hasn’t been taught Pow­er­point in school yet, maybe it will hap­pen when he’s 18
2 — lack of adver­tise­ments; HTML is mak­ing a come­back in his world because of MySpace

com­mu­ni­ties in TSL
– script­ing; very few good scripters in TSL
– build­ing; slightly larger com­mu­nity because eas­ier to learn; get a sense of cre­ation with­out hav­ing to learn as much
– social: on TSL to do things they do in RL (shop, be with friends, etc.)
– edu­ca­tional: usu­ally owned by adults; teens in social com­mu­ni­ties have no inter­est in the edu­ca­tional one

inter­ac­tion
– script­ing + building

judg­ment day — the day Teen Sec­ond Life res­i­dents turn 18, and are trans­ferred to main SL
the sys­tem is sup­posed to do it, but it doesn’t hap­pen “overnight“
teens look for­ward to get­ting on the main grid because it’s so much larger

Liz: her big frus­tra­tion is that she can’t play SL with her son; no social­iza­tion into the big­ger world
“it takes a guild to raise a child” — how impor­tant it is that her son can learn from adults, men­tors, peers in one place
so she doesn’t play in SL because she can’t be in either world with her son

Ben Gross — How Many

How many?
– email addresses do you have?
– IM net­works are you on?
– phone num­bers do you have?
– logins to web­sites do you have?

why do peo­ple have mul­ti­ple iden­ti­fiers?
it’s com­mon­place and mun­dane to have all of these things now
sep­a­ra­tion of per­sonal and pro­fes­sional, sep­a­rat­ing out social groups
a cat­e­gory of “that’s my spam account,” which is really trusted and known ver­sus not trusted or not known
focus­ing atten­tion or lim­it­ing inter­rup­tion for your work
per­ma­nence and con­ti­nu­ity — your col­lege account is likely to out­live any ISP account

“the odds“
“I got my name“
peo­ple are more likely to remem­ber their pass­words because they use the same one on each ser­vice, whereas they’re unlikely to remem­ber their usernames/logins because they’re dif­fer­ent on each one

impli­ca­tions
– usabil­ity
– workarounds
– side effects
– secu­rity implications

Eliz­a­beth Churchill
inter­ested in cul­tures of pri­vacy and how we come to know what we’re allowed to share and what we’re not
me putting up my friend’s pic­ture is dif­fer­ent than her putting it up
how peo­ple man­age what they share with oth­ers
did some inter­views with peo­ple ask­ing if they under­stand pri­vacy set­tings in Flickr
chart of Flickr shar­ing by age
60% of the peo­ple didn’t change the defaults at all (which means 40% do)
1 in 12 doesn’t share pic­tures at all
younger peo­ple share more
chart of photo shar­ing by con­nect­ed­ness — the more you put in your pro­file, the more you tend to share your pic­tures
map visu­al­iz­ing shar­ing across the world
inter­ested in volatil­ity — what makes you take some­thing down
can you retract things?
how do our lit­era­cies develop around pri­vacy, shar­ing, etc.

Flickr is about:
– doc­u­ment­ing (per­sonal and col­lec­tive mem­ory)
– com­pe­ti­tion (sta­tus)
– affil­i­a­tion (group mem­ber­ship)
– learn­ing (emu­lat­ing)
– curiosity/voyeurism
– aware­ness (near and far)