Wiki: Participatory Media and Collective Action

Via Smart Mobs, a seminar-based wiki on participatory media and collective action.

This is a collectively built resource space on two closely intertwined topics: Participatory Media and Collective Action. This project came out of the Seminar Class: Participatory Media of the School of Information Managment and Systems, University of California at Berkeley.

In addition to class readings and discussion on this wiki, the students of this class have collected a collection of readings and documents under different themes.

Includes info on Chinese cyberactivism, the Dan Rather memo debacle, OhMyNews and flash mobs -- very Rheingoldian.

Madisonian punks State Journal, blogs it

The State Journal recently started a "You Pick the News" feature, whereby readers of their website pick a story to appear the next day's front page. Of course, somebody decided to game it:

At 1:00PM today, the vote total was

San Fransisco Quake – 12 votes
Avery Case – 8 votes
Jensen Trial – 8 votes
Scientists – 6 votes

At that point, I came to the conclusion that this poll needed to be freeped. So, I logged onto Dailykos.com and made my first ever post. Freeping of polls from Dailykos has been a game for at least two years. This was my first attempt.

The Jensen trial wound up winning in a landslide.

Ch. 3 profiles Madison Commons

The Madison Commons project, headed up by Chris Long, was profiled last night on the WISC evening news. The text version of the story is up at their site, but they don't have video online yet -- channel "3000," indeed!