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Many-to-Many: Middlespace

This piece by Ross Mayfield starts to get at the idea of how content will be filtered in a decentralized system. The idea of peer review, recommendation and reputation systems start to answer a world of overwhelming abundance of information.

iBrattleboro – Community news and discussion by and for Brattleboro, VT

iBrattleboro.com is an example of the type of interactive community site I’d like to see a place lke the MVHub transforming into.

OJR article: The New Voices: Hyperlocal Citizen Media Sites Want You (to Write)!

This is an excellent overview of the challenges facing community blogging and citizen journalism. Very relevant for the CITYVOICES project.

Life With Alacrity: Tracing the Evolution of Social Software: “he term ‘social software’, which is now used to define software that supports group interaction, has only become relatively popular within the last two or more years. However, the core ideas of social software itself enjoy a much longer history, running back to Vannevar Bush’s ideas about ‘memex’ in 1945, and traveling through terms such as Augmentation, Groupware, and CSCW in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.”

broadband » News » Bit Torrent: P2P King – 53% of all p2p file-sharing traffic: “53% of all p2p file-sharing traffic
Earlier this year P2P traffic-monitoring company CacheLogic noted that more data is now being transferred via BitTorrent than by any other P2P network worldwide (53%). As Technology Review Notes, that popularity is rising, and shows no indication of slowing down anytime soon. So far the film and music industries haven’t targeted Bit Torrent as much as they have other clients, but according to a BayTSP source in the article, that won’t last much longer.”

Personal Democracy Forum

Just found this site which touches on the changing nature of politices ina technology driven society.

Could we have social video editing?

So conversations over the last few days have been about what happens to the social sphere in a decentralized, individualized media consumption environment. This post to Many2Many gets at some of the potential of “social” in this world. The idea of Flickr culling together photos and presenting “ad hoc” social galleries is another.

Many-to-Many: Social software as a term

Cory D. elaborates on the term social software.

unmediated: Verizon To Launch Content Service Next Year

What will happen to community media once the telcos get into the business of delivering content? Our regulatory policies, local and state practices have got to catch up if we are not to be left behind.

All That is Solid Melts in Air::

The possibilities of the next evolution of social economic systems.

“Since we have cast the extant world system as being evolutionary, we must assume that if it is to survive, the world system will have to adjust and that the inevitable thermodynamic tax must be paid. What will the evolutionary system look like? Certainly, the >dysecological= aspect of Western thought that is anthropocentric, linear, discrete, materialistic and simplistic will have to be softened or replaced while the positive aspects such as creativity, love of nature, art, and reason would seem to be necessary for a high quality existence. Eastern models that are cosmic, non-linear, and complex are more congruent with the global mind but are flawed in their, passivity, fatalism, and anti-intellectualism. A sustainable world system must work optimally within the constraints of the global ecosystem and the human value systems the latter of which will be evolutionary rather than a composite of the present (Perelman, 1976). Whatever the path, it is unlikely that the futuristic myth of modernist historical progress will be played out; however, given the stochastic nature of post-modernist thought, neither is it predictable (Jones, Natter, and Schatzki, eds., 1993).”