Web 2.0 Hot or Not
Panel
Allyson Kapin, Connie Reece, Beth Kanter and Heather Holdridge

OSN=Online Social Networking
-- Admin overhead= time, updating profile, ability to give up control, ability to develop genuine relationships, ability to accept criticism from followers
-- Competing with other messages: make it short, casual and compelling
-- Two way communication, accept, solicit and respond to feedback

Beth's cute dog theory: web 2.0 is embraced to share pics of cute cats. What prevents non-profits from sharing photos of their (or dogs?).

Panelists
Kaliya Hamlin, IdentityWoman.net
Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source, Google
Michelle Murrain, Meta Centric Technology Advising

Kaliya, Open Source, and Science background
-- LinuxChicks member
-- Open Source about equal acess to good tools regardless of resources, focus on community building, cmmunity owned and drive software

Leslie, Google Open Source Team
-- thought and discussion of ownership and contribution to software we use
-- force for good: people should be able to contribute to the tools they use, open source software empowers people

Julie Rosen - moderator

Clarissa - Color of Change
+ Jena 6 campaign 400k members
-- politicization of school lack of discipline and over discipline,based on race
-- campaign goals: unequal justice frame pushed to frame case narrative
-- centrality of narrative or story
-- local action, path to take action
-- raise $ for students' defense
-- petitions useful to help create the story frame, not so much as petitions
-- pass alongs to blogs, facebook, myspace (social apps wherecreated by others - not color of change); unaffiliated user-generated content

Question Box: the Internet for remote places, no literacy or keyboards required.

Joho the Blog points to the Italian Beppe Grill Blog using online outreach to push offline petition signing. Food for thought....

Friend and co-worker Jodie has been pumping out some really strong blog posts on estimating. When I get caught up from past mis-estimates I'll give them a careful read. In the meantime you can read them here:

http://shemuses.net/2007/05/28/estimating/

http://shemuses.net/2007/06/04/your-word-integration/

http://shemuses.net/2007/06/04/the-accountability-police/

http://shemuses.net/2007/06/04/a-culture-of-accountability/

http://shemuses.net/2007/05/29/the-art-of-no/

http://shemuses.net/2007/05/28/estimating/

I read this super-early one morning last week, and think it bears on my discussion of web 2.0 and self-censorship. Read it here: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/05/14/070514crbo_books_....

The thing that I think we've kind of put to the back of our minds in our eagerness to embrace the new connectedness in web 2.0, is that we interact in all kinds of communities or subgroups with subtle differences in how communication is handled in each. The web 2.0 stuff holds great promise, but I think in all kinds of ways and in all kinds of virtual spaces, we are running into places in which we haven't really thought through the social expectations and norms behind this new communication.

For the past couple of weeks I've been Twittering with a small group of friends. We're all web-heads, so we've been using it only on the web, not the sms/phone stuff. Like Adam Curry (wow, can't believe I wrote that), I like my sms texting to be a clean channel.