Doyle Saylor wrote:
"MySpace is social software. "
I can socially network with technorati tags. It doesn't take a website.
MySpace is spy space, and a security risk to users worldwide.
There IS alot of discussion of the NSA's use of MySpace:
MySpace or SpySpace? - Pentagon sets its sights on social networking
websites - NewScientist
<http://leighm.net/blog/2006/06/08/myspyspace_nwsci/>
Also see: NSA Wiretapping - ‘Cogito’ Phone Analysis Sales Pitch Gives
Insight Into NSA Phone Tapping
<http://leighm.net/blog/2006/05/15/sales_pitch_gives-_insight_nsa/>
...for more on network analysis.
MySpace also sued someone recently for 'spamming in their name'.
I got one of those 'spammails' and it *wasn't* a 'remote spammer'. The
header was *not* forged. The party had access to the admin functions at
the site, like mailing lists, my brand new account information, like my
throwaway email address set to 'no-show' in my profile/pages etc... and
passwords perhaps, or at least the ability to circumvent passwords at an
administrative level.
Funny, no mention of that in the news story about the lawsuit, perhaps
their's an ongoing criminal investigation of the person...
Leigh
Greetings Economists,
On Mar 1, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Mark Lause wrote:
Fascinating study, but probably nothing those of us that teach don't
learn
every day.
Doyle;
Your reaction is fascinating to me. The pressure is on teaching to
automate the teaching process by online means. That shapes behavior in
the sense of the classroom interaction is surely being truncated and
perhaps at least radically re-shaped. When I see a miss use of a
disability term like narcissism I usually feel now the meaning is
severely distorted by an agreement about the political import of
disability. The general equation is the other is disabled and that's
the worst case. So if students are narcissists this enables a value
judgment or ethical conclusion about whatever. However, information is
being distributed more and more on line, and what sort of behavior that
engenders is not about narcissism but a vast increase in information
production.
MySpace is social software. Being at the center of it all is about a
connection process that 'feels' good. Therefore the production process
is actually addressing issues in the way face to face or the classroom
can't.
Doyle
