Two sophisticated and well-worth-reading documents on national security (1)
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1) From Bruce Schneier, renowned and sensible expert on taking terrorist threats seriously without overreacting and defeating ourselves in the process, on exactly which aspects of the Chinese "hacker" menace are worrisome, and which ones aren't. Executive summary: these hackers aren't controlled by the Chinese government or military and basically are sharp, cocky young men showing off their technical skills. "The hackers are in this for two reasons: fame and glory, and an attempt to ...
Networks of Voters (1)
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[Cross-posted at The Network Thinker] Karl Rove and I do not agree on much. Yet, his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal does provide an opportunity for overlap. Rove discusses Obama's 2008 campaign strategy... "For starters, Barack Obama's manager admitted to the New York Times that he wanted an "army of persuasion" modeled explicitly on the massive Bush neighbor-to-neighbor[emphasis mine] "Victory Committee" of '00 and '04. Those efforts deployed millions of volunteers to register, persuade ...
Network of Interest (1)
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Could you be a "person of interest"?You might be, and not know it, and not know why.Last week, the US Congress passed the new FISA legislation. This new law gives the government expanded powers to listen in on anyone they consider a terror suspect, inside or outside the US. While this new law aroused privacy and civil liberties questions, the law's supporters were quick to defend it, and brush off any criticism. There is nothing ...
Smart Mobs » What I plan to say at De Montfort University commencement (5)
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I have been asked to give a brief address when I am awarded the “Doctor of Technology” degree Wednesday, at De Montfort University. Here’s what I am planning: Brief remarks by Howard Rheingold at De Montfort University, July, 2008 I’ll give you the advice part at the very beginning. Then you can decide for yourselves how much attention to devote to the rest of my very short remarks. My advice is this: Pay attention to ...
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reading shared items via google reader is a great example of "paying attention to irrelevant details"
Twitter case studies: Bad and er... bad (1)
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This isn't a particularly constructive blog post, but I thought I'd share two great examples of bad Twitter use. The first one I didn't even bother clicking to view their profile page, because frankly why would I want to having received the notification email pictured left? I mean, that's not even trying is it? It's not even setting up a Twitter stream as an affiliate link farm and pretending to be a real person. It's ...
Guardian column: Warning to copyright enforcers: Three strikes and you’re out (5)
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My latest Guardian column is up: “Warning to copyright enforcers: Three strikes and you’re out” argues that if the entertainment industry wants the right to disconnect accused infringers after three accusations, then they should be prepared to have their corporate Internet access terminated if they make three false accusations. Thanks to Kevin Marks for the idea! The internet is only that wire that delivers freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of the press ...
On Friends, Followers, and the Top Twitter Users (7)
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An easy way to increase Twitter's signal-to-noise ratio is to follow less people. I'm sure you've heard of Twitter users who follow several thousand twitterers. How they keep up with that many micro-blogs is beyond me. Unfortunately, spammers have discovered that to increase their "following", they simply follow thousands of other users, a small percentage whom will politely start following them. Granted, number of followers is not as informative as the number of conversations a ...
On Friends, Followers, and the Top Twitter Users (23)
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An easy way to increase Twitter's signal-to-noise ratio is to follow less people. I'm sure you've heard of Twitter users who follow several thousand Twitter users. How they keep up with that many micro-blogs is beyond me. Unfortunately, spammers have discovered that to increase their "following", they simply follow thousands of other users, a small percentage whom will politely start following them. Granted, number of followers is not as informative as the number of conversations ...
100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money (13 of 100) (1)
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DailyLit: 100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money (0)
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100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money by Tom Peters. Copyright 2008 by Tom Peters.Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0100 WAYS TO SUCCEED #13MAKE THIS DAY MATTER.If..."My life is my message"(Gandhi)...Then...what will you/I do today to clarify and amplify your/my message?Choose wisely. (WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE?)Review (and report...to yourself) at the end of the day.Repeat.Daily.Forever.MESSAGE FROM DAILYLITPlease take our first {$config->site_name} survey! Add next installment to feed right nowDiscuss with other readers in the forumSuspend this subscriptionChange ...
When your organizers organize you (17)
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Ari Melber happens upon what could be an important moment in the history-in-the-making of participatory, self-organized online politics: Barack Obama supporters used his own network to organize a protest against his actions on telecom immunity. Now if a campaign is going to argue that it’s truly grassroots, what is it to do with a revolt or protest from within? I’ve argued since Howard Dean’s run in 2004 that campaigns aren’t or can’t really be bottom-up ...
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BTW, "It so happens that I agree with Obama on this issue (and I know my view is as unpopular as his). When government forces you do to something then that force must come with immunity. The problem is not the telcos going along but the government making the demand and there being no check on that. But that’s a different debate."There was no force. There was willing participation without a warrant. Contrast with Qwest, which refused.There was a check, even if a pathetic one of paperwork. The administration ignored it.The revisions supplant that paperwork check with an even flimsier one, the ipse dixit clause, which lets the Executive do anything as long as the Executive says the Executive says it is ok.That's not a check. That's a blank check.
Friends talking to Friends (1)
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A while back I blogged about the social network strategy of the Huckabee campaign and how it was accomplishing a lot with very little (money). The campaign was using the power of the social tie/link -- friends talking to friends about voting. Good strategy, limited population. Huckabee focused on well-defined clusters, like christian evangelicals, that tend to be very insular and limited in size. With insular cliques, your strategy may work, but it only goes ...
It's the networks, stupid (1)
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Will Obama's strategic use of grass-roots networks lead to victory in the 2008 U.S. presidential race?Roger Cohen, who wrote an Op-Ed piece in The NY Times, thinks so. I like the new term he uses: MAC = mutually assured connectivity.Of course, the Dean campaign thought they understood the internet in 2004, but they really did not get "social networks". They made some breakthroughs in technology, but screwed up the sociology, and lost in a big ...
Hub or Spoke? (1)
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Often, in social/business situations, we are either a hub[blue node] or a spoke[green node] in the network of interaction and knowledge exchange. A few months ago, I blogged about how "not to be taken advantage of" if you are a spoke in an interaction. Now my old network buddy, Guy Hagen, tells us how to be an effective hub in a negotiation. See how these two strategies use similar, yet opposing, network dynamics?Connect your allies, ...
Pod[cast] of Gold (1)
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I will be teaching a graduate level course in Organizational / Social Network Analysis @ Michigan State University during the summer semester. In preparing the reading list for the course I ran across an absolute gem of an article and podcast by one of my favorite network scholars -- Herminia Ibarra. Herminia is one of those rare academics that can effectively straddle the two worlds of research and business -- she can talk to either ...
