#Digg it! A proposal for women of color, feminists, and progressives on Twitter (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Revised version published on Reno and its Discontents.
Thanks all for the feedback.
And please, digg it!
{ Monthly Archives }
February 2009
Scenarios for #topprog: your thoughts?
Last night’s #topprog Tweetup, discussing the next steps for the new progressive Twitter hashtag, had some excellent discussions.  Chris Cardinal (aka @cacardinal) has set up a skeleton web page on topprog.org and did a great job facilitating the tweetup; he’ll be writing up a summary later today.  Somehow, though, I wound up with an action item — writing up a couple of quick scenarios for ways to use #topprog.  How’d that happen?!?!? Looks like my meeting skills are rusty!
Still it’s a good thing to focus on. Twitter hashtags are extremely flexible, and there are zillions of things we could do with them. What are some of the sweet spots? And how do we use #topprog to accomplish them?
I’ll kick things off with a couple that seem important: action alerts and events. Suggestions and feedback are very welcome: in the comments here, or tweeted to #topprog if it’s 140 characters or less 🙂
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“Dailyish updates” (draft post for The Seminal)
Draft. Work in progress — feedback welcome!
The revised version will (hopefully) be posted on The Seminal
Zuckerberg: Facebook to ratchet up exploitation, only bans “outliers”
Richard Wray, in Facebook aims to market its user data bank to businesses on guardian.co.uk:
Facebook intends to capitalise on the wealth of information it has about its users by offering its 150 million-strong customer base to corporations as a market research tool. The appearance, later this year, of corporate polls targeted at certain parts of the Facebook audience because of the information they have posted on their pages, is likely to infuriate privacy campaigners.
No, ya think?
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg, sporting a tie, demoed it at Davos. (No report on whether any attendees brought up privacy issues.) Mark also shmoozed with Robert Scoble about Facebook’s “intense” year, and defended Facebook’s arbitrary and secretive banning policy:
He also said that his system looks for “outlying†behavior. He said if you behave like an average user you should never trigger the algorithms that will get you kicked off.
#topprog: #tcot, trolling and topics for #fem2.0
Update: #topprog Tweetup : Tuesday Night 7:30 EST : Subject – topprog.org features, functionality, and community. Please Retweet! H/T @cacardinal
The new #topprog Twitter hashtag for progressives continues to make progress with a good range of topics and tweeters — including big names like @blogdiva, @PunditMom (who’s moderating a breakout session at fem2pt0 tomorrow), and @JoeTrippi.
The progressive blogosphere’s ignoring it, of course,* but the conservatives of #tcot are nervous enough that they’re already labelling it a #fail, thinking about flooding it, and coming up with euphemisms for trolling. And in fact @The_Anti_Guru’s “active engagement” probably accounts for over 50% of the traffic, counting replies. Guy attempts to disrupt and dominate conversation in potentially-woman-friendly-space, film at 11!
Gender issues aside, a lot of people are skeptical whether it’s possible to have meaningful conversations on Twitter. Won’t the loudest voices drown everybody else out? The three loudest tweeters yesterday had 46, 30, and 29 tweets yesterday. As calibration, @drdigipol, aka Alan Rosenblatt, who as the creator of the list presumably has as much to say as anybody else, had 7.  So it’s easy to overlook @lizandra311’s updates on the Rootscamp in Philadelphia, or the occasional posts from @blogdiva, @Heardtfelt, @myrnyatheminx, @GetFISARight and others.