Truly social data. [FluidDB]
Marching through quicksand. [Lessons Learned]
Time to retire the term “blogger”? [Scott Rosenberg, Wordyard]
Is Being In the Mobile Biz License to Ignore the Internet? [John Battelle]
Why Free Thought Is Sexy But We Hate It. [How to Split an Atom]
How Whole Foods boycott groups are using social media to organize. [Bloggasm]
Shared Items
O’Reilly Media: From OSCON 09, Mark Surman (Mozilla Foundation),”Where Next for Openness?”
Read Write Web: The year of location-based services.
Tech Dirt: Judge says blogs not legitimate news source; no shield protections.
Tech Crunch: China blocks access to Twitter, Facebook after riots.
Ars Technica: Jammie Thomas challenges $1.92M P2P verdict.
Govfresh: Must-follow Government 2.0 heroes on Twitter.
O’Reilly Radar: Twitter Approval Matrix.
New York Times: In the mirror, venture capitalists see fat and [...]
The The Nation’s C.T.O. Aneesh Chopra Lays Out His Priorities [NY Times]. Open government, open data, a more open democracy.
Making Data Social Open and accessible data, a segue from the New York Times article.
Fascinating thread going on right now @Scobleizer “How is Twitter/Facebook/friendfeed/blogs changing how you learn?”
An amazing presentation from TED Talks by Yann Arthus-Bertrand [...]