Doubledown Tandino's Digg It Favorites of the Week - July 2009 - 1

As I do, here's a hodge podge of articles from the week that interested me:

Second Life Data Offers Window Into How Trends Spread

sciencedaily.com — Do friends wear the same style of shoe or see the same movies because they have similar tastes, which is why they became friends in the first place? Or once a friendship is established, do individuals influence each other to adopt like behaviors?

Social Influence and the Diffusion of User-Created Content

personal.umich.edu — Three social researchers from the University of Michigan obtained data from Linden Lab about the possession and acquisition of 'gestures' (preprogrammed sequences of text, avatar animations and/or audio) and data about account creation dates and friends-lists, and studied how gestures passed from user to user.

Subliminal Mind Control, Brain Washing, Media & Psychology watch!

youtube.com — Subliminal Mind Control, Brain Washing, Media & Psychology Dr. John Breeding discusses the use of television and the mass media as a form of information and mind control. Visit Dr. Breeding's Website at http://www.wildestcolts.com

Is Virtual Presence Viable for Collaboration? openmediaboston.org — IBM announced last week that it was adding a virtual world collaboration service it's calling Virtual Collaboration to its Lotus Sametime communications and collaboration software, which is aimed primarily at enterprises.



US rallies hackers to defend networks - The Boston Globe boston.com — The government's urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts. The exotic nature of the work, coupled with the deep recession, is enabling the companies to attract top young talent that once would have gone to Silicon Valley



Jammie Thomas To Appeal Her $1.92 Million Verdict

mashable.com — Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the woman who was charged with copyright infringement through online file sharing, tried to fight RIAA, and subsequently lost, will appeal the verdict in her case, which ordered her to pay $1.92 million in damages to the recording industry that sued her.

Mashups,Remixes,Covers of music from Muppet Show & Sesame St

djbc.net — Mashups, remixes, and covers of music from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street Compiled and conceived by dj BC

Doubledown Tandino's Diggs of the Week - Australia Gaming and Net Censorship? - June 2009

Australia to Begin Filtering Online Games incl Second Life

escapistmagazine.com — Australia plans to filter internet sites offering games and online gaming content that exceed the MA15+ age rating, including downloadable and Flash games as well as sites that sell retail games online.

Australia to Ban Second Life? | Dusan Writer’s Metaverse

dusanwriter.com — According to the Inquisitr, new laws in Australia will mean that Second Life is banned on that continent. Thoughts, comments, discussions with Dusan and members of the virtual worlds.

Australia Govt to block websites offering banned games.

gamespot.com — Australian gamers are probably well aware of their country's strict games classification system, with the lack of an R18+ rating meaning any title not fitting under the MA15+ rating is automatically banned from sale down under. This means it is illegal to sell a game which has been refused classification in Australia.

Australia to Block Online Access to Games with 15+ Content

gamepolitics.com — Australia's federal government said yesterday that it plans to block access to websites which host and sell games with content edgier than what is allowable under an MA-15+ rating. The unprecedented censorship policy will apply to Australians of all ages.


Australian network filtering promises to block Online Games

massively.com — Australian Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has promised to extend Australia's proposed network-level content filtering regime to block games, online games, downloadable games, and websites that sell or allow download of games that are deemed not to be suitable for a 15-year-old audience.


Australia: Bans, Filters and Government 2.0 Taskforce

laurelpapworth.com — with regards to online games, some are boxed (closed systems such as Grand Theft Auto), some are box and server (multiplayer such as World of Warcraft) and some are downloadable clients or simply web based clients to a hosted server (Second Life, Habbo).


Who is Responsible for Assuring Freedoms in Virtual Worlds

metanomics.net — Recent developments in a discussion regarding human rights on the web are forcing the consideration of a complex set of issues related to virtual worlds.


Net filtering and virtual worlds: reactions

metaversejournal.com — After last night’s story on the Australian Government’s internet content filtering legislation and its potential impact on virtual worlds, the response has been astounding. Today has seen the largest ever traffic on The Metaverse Journal. Like any issue, there are a few camps of thought:

** NO CLEAN FEED | Stop Internet Censorship in Australia

nocleanfeed.com — The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers [ISPs] to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and slow down Internet access.

Rumors of Australian Second Life Censorship Seem Rumurish

nwn.blogs.com — Over the last 24 hours I've been peppered with links as here and here which seem to suggest the Australian government is imminently planning to block access to Second Life from that country. It has to do with a recent Aussie Communication Ministry proposal to filter the online distribution of computer games not rated acceptable for teen play.

Second Life Banned in Australia? Not So Fast...

gamepolitics.com — As GamePolitics reported last week, the Australian government is moving to block online access to games containing content which would exceed the country's MA-15+ rating. The proposed filtering scheme would affect online retailers selling such games as well as games played online such as MMOs.

Doubledown Tandino's Diggs of the Week - Iran Election & Social Media - June 2009-3

This past week's news was filled with Iran election & revolution coverage (or lack there of). We also witnessed a revolution in social media.

I pulled several interesting article links from the past week. These articles are about the massive role social media played rather than news about Iran:

#IranElection Crisis: A Social Media Timeline - One of the striking aspects of the #IranElection crisis has been the heavy use of social media. Iranians have relied on it to spread information on protests and to communicate their situation to millions of concerned people worldwide.

How (Twitter and) I* Crashed Iran's Propaganda Web Sites - A top new-media activist looks back on his role in the Twitterati's rise to power this week — and why it didn't stop Ahmadinejad's. *"I" is Josh Koster , Raph Koster's brother.

What the World Didn't See in Tehran - Iranian state television yesterday broadcast the soap operas and covered the news about Rafael Nadal's withdrawal from Wimbledon and Pakistani operations against the Taliban as if they were the most important stories of the day...

Tools to Undo Censorship in Iran and China. USE THEM - Web censorship has once again become a huge issue, due to two unrelated events: China’s Internet blockade due to the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, and more recently, the controversial Iran elections which have resulted in new oppressive measures, implemented by the current country leaders, to shut down free speech in the country.

Iran, Twitter, and The American Information Elite - Over the weekend, Iran hurtled into political upheaval, and America's 24-hour cable news networks hardly noticed. Mark Ambinder explains the role Twitter played in Iran.

Doubledown Tandino's Diggs of the Week - June 2009-1

Doubledown Tandino's Digg It Favorites of the Week:

20+ best sites to submit your news | INDEZINER - Every webmaster knows that site promotion is vital on the internet. There are many ways to do that. One viral marketing technique is also public news promotion. We searched for you and find out some great websites that are featuring community news.

Metaverse Week in Review | Live Show about Virtual Worlds - Metaverse Week In Review airs live right here every Sunday, starting at 12 pm SL time/8pm UK time. Archives of past shows are available by clicking the “On Demand” button.

Avatars United | www.AvatarsUnited.com | world MMO community - Welcome to the world’s open community for MMOs! Register today, hook up with your friends and improve your virtual life… one application at a time! " It's like Facebook for your virtual personas.

LIVE. Music electronic on USTREAM, most-popular Live Streams - Electronic Music Ustream Shows Broadcasting Live including electronic music DJs mixing live online.

ARhrrrr - An augmented reality shooter - ARhrrrr is an augmented reality shooter for mobile camera-phones, created at Georgia Tech Augmented Environments Lab and the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD-Atlanta). The phone provides a window into a 3d town overrun with zombies. Point the camera at our special game map to mix virtual and real world content.

Case Studies Real Organizations Find Success in Second Life - Real Organizations Find Success in the Virtual World There are hundreds of organizations currently in Second Life, including many Fortune 1000 companies and government institutions.

Marketing and Networking in the Second Life Art Scene - In this article, we’re going to explore some ways you’ll be able to hit the ground running with marketing yourself in SL’s virtual art scene. There are many similarities to real life when it comes to presenting yourself to the inworld audiences of curators, collectors and other artists.

RJDJ Scripting reality – music is everywhere… Dizzy Banjo - RjDj is an amazing iPhone application which creates mind twisting hearing sensations by weaving your environment into reactive music. Voices, cars, your walking speed.. these and many other things can be used to shape your experience. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, try it!

SelfControl - Program to block internet distractions - Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X application which blocks access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and websites for a predetermined period of time. For example, you could block access to your email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still have access to the rest of the web. Hope you enjoy my selections.

- Each week I hope to bring you some interesting stuff for my Doubledown Tandino's Digg It Favorites. Make sure to DIGG the articles that interest you and make sure to connect with me on Digg & on Twitter : @Doubledown_inSL @Ravelong

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Doubledown's Note about Digg: I have been heavily using Digg (http://digg.com) for my daily website surfing and bookmarking. It's been useful to me in three ways:

1) Any website I come across that interests me, I want to save & share, I'm now using Digg to bookmark the site instead of saving the link to my web browser's bookmarks. Going to my own profile to see an easy access list of links I wanted saved has been working well.

2) Digg has a great community of site sharing people. I can go to Digg, without having something specific I'm looking for, and find interesting news and articles just by parusing the digg site.

3) Digg and Twitter combo with these tools: http://twiggit.com and http://twitterfeed.com
my Digg submission feed is: http://digg.com/users/BradReason/history/submissions.rss
(You are more than welcome to set your twitterfeed to send my digg links through your twitter if you enjoy my selections.)

See ya around Digg: http://digg.com/users/BradReason

Barack Obama Appoints Two Second Life Innovators To His Team

New World Newsfeed:

Barack Obama Appoints Two Second Life Innovators To His "Innovation Agenda" Group

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Can Ya Digg It? Second Life: Music, DJs, Nightlife, Art, & Creativity

Second Life:
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