Felicia M. Sullivan, Ph.D.

Guerrilla News Network

For LTC, this is the sort of merging of the Digital Bicycle and MVHub type activiites that I have been trying to push. – videos, blogs, links, forums, etc.

MSNBC – Bottom-up is turning everything upside down:
Joe Trippi, the guru behind the Howard Dean campaing use of the Internet, talks about the transformation happening in the redistribution of power and its affects on society.

“We live in a top-down society, where information is power, and where those at the top have most of the information and hold most of the power. This is true within the institutions of government, political parties, the media, corporations, and the military.

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But something dramatic is happening: A giant wave of change is gathering more force each day. Power is shifting to the bottom, spawned by advances in technology and the decentralized bottom-up nature of the Internet.”

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.