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Bolt Peters’ winning entry to the Explain IA contest.

A partisan but pretty polemic comparing the search giant’s apparently insatiable monopolistic drives to those of a well-known authoritarian despot. Hosted on whose servers for free?

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] In a radio interview broadcast last week, debut novelist Natasha Solomons discusses the best way for authors to promote their books with publishing consultant Damian Horner. She makes effective use of online social media to promote her work with a stylish blog, an active twitter habit and a [...]

Kevin Marks delivering reliably essential insight at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York last Autumn. See also How Twitter Works In Theory and the subsequent Twitter Thoery Applied To Google Buzz for more about Flow, Faces, Phatic, Following, Publics, Mutual Media and Small World Networks.

A great collection of quotes from way back in the day. Look out for Douglas Hofstadter, Sherry Turkle and Steve Jobs on technology and identity.

Matt McKeon has created an instructive graphic comparison of changes to Facebook’s default profile settings since 2005. The transition between relative and a more or less complete lack of privacy is easy to grasp in this form, and much easier to understand than the labyrinthine multi-page Facebook terms and conditions, or even the manual privacy [...]

Times Online to introduce pay walls as early as Q1 2010, despite Murdoch admission [via New Media Age] http://icio.us/xfmkuv # Checking our twitter via brizzly: great interface, very useful inline video and photos, useful DM functionality. Facebook compatible too. # http://icio.us/avrbhl # The Trouble With Twitter, James Harkin in The Guardian: deafening banality instead of [...]