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Who says the Internet is over-hyped, brain mushifying and de-humanizing?
See
DOGSTER
and if you're feeling click-happy, try
CHESS
and if you are inclined to "share a stash" (or want to know what it entails)
try
RAVELRY

Creative Artist Agency and Pequot Capital are launching WePlay.Com a social networking site aimed at image promotion of young athletes ....some of the 52 million children reportedly involved in athletics. Investment to date: $4.5 million. Launch : mid April.
David Rone, co head of CAA's recently created "sports division" promises to get the best exposure to this pool of future exploitable talent.
Jeter, an equity investor (and a shortstop for the Yankees) , says he cares about obesity!!!
Rick Heitzmann, managing director at Pequot Ventures (PCMs venture arm) opines you could template the approach..WePlay or, WePray?
Stay tunes to see if the emerging dynamics of social networking and the apparent preference for biography over fiction make WePlay a big fat winner.....

Silicon Valley seminar...
FWE&E
Ustreamtv

First speaker Ross Mayfield
Edleman Survey Trust Peers

Second speaker Jeremiah Owyang, presented Online Community Best Practiceshttp://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0.7211,44795,00.html

Open Social
[Neville Note: and at this point the tv disconnected....bleeeeeeeh
reconnected through webcommunityforum ... lost 40 minutes, but will be archived on FWE&E site]

Check Out these sites:

TeeBeeDee

Ning

And don't forget to see
Danah Boyd and Lucy Gray two social network gurus

Pity the clueless agent and editor fooled by Another case of Faux Memoir

Riverhead Books (Penguin USA) has offered to refund purchase price to buyers who ask
A White Valley Girl Pretends to Have Grown up in Gangland

It reminds me of a young person in a gym encounter:
Young person (to oldster): What do you do?
Oldster: I'm a novelist.
Young person: Do you write fiction or non-fiction?

resource allocation in peripatetic indicators:

Diversity in footwear...
see Mar 19 post (below beneath Guitar Hero) for live links....
check out the newly launched
http://wowowow.com
and the NYT coverage
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/fashion/06WOW.html
I did write in and comment about the silly high-heeled shoe icon as the tag for "The Women"...am I the only one of the opinion they could come up with an icon that was not emblematic of gender specific torture and bondage and many trips to the chiropodist/chiropractor?

Inquiring minds: this is me playing GH in Second Life :)

check out the newly launched
http://wowowow.com
and the NYT coverage
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/fashion/06WOW.html
I did write in and comment about the silly high-heeled shoe icon as the tag for "The Women"...am I the only one of the opinion they could come up with an icon that was not emblematic of gender specific torture and bondage and many trips to the chiropodist/chiropractor?

The proper use of honorifics is no small matter in Germany, a society given to formality where even longtime neighbors insist on addressing each other using their surnames. Those with advanced degrees like to show them off, and it is not uncommon to earn more than one. A male faculty member with two PhDs can fully expect to be called "Herr Professor Dr. Dr. Schmidt," for example.

AND The Title Police in Germany can get you for using the title "Dr" if your degree was not granted by a German university. How does this enforcement work on the Internet or is it just voicemail and business cards? Inquiring minds....

Something akin to parental pride to open a magazine and see one's client profiled....
See page 44 Spirit (Southwest Airlines in flight magazine) March 2008 : interview with world famous designer Yves Behar
and fuseproject , his SF based design firm.

Stanford attracted a full house at the "free to the public thanks to the generous support of GOOGLE" Legal Futures conference Saturday March 8, 2008. It followed an all day "invitation" session and one could detect that more than a few participants referred to Friday and continued discussions to which most of the "public" (read: not invited to Friday) were not privy.
The weather: delicious!!!
The food: yummy (see photo post below) The seating: ergonomic The discourse: temperate as the weather

The first "Foo session" after the oft imitated, never duplicated O'Reilly Foo Camp

The Future of Professionally Created Content. OR
Critical Thinking and Learning to Triangulate from various sources of questionable veracity.
The Honorable Alex Kozinski primed the discussion by posing where will the objective (read "professional") news gathering come from now that the 60 feet on the ground in Bagdad are not paid for by the NYT. Although largely limited to the predictable gab about cost of distribution of mass consumed content (a la Lord of the Rings thanks to Cappucio of Time Warner) some panelists did go a bit deeper. Lessig tossed out Sandler's Foundation: journalism in the public interest. Microsoft Assoc. GC Tom Rubin dubbed the internet "short form creativity".
UC Berkeley prof and Google Chief economist Hal Varian quipped that folks pay to support a NY Yankee but not a NY Times Reporter and hey, that's just the market.
How can you get your news (pudding) if you don't read the paper (eat yer meat- apologies Pink Floyd)

Allusions were made to the age of NY Times readership (54) and the source of news to the YouTube generation: The Daily Show.

On truthfulness: my scribbles lead me to ascribe Cappucio with a story of news in cold war Russia, where a reader assumes everybody is lying and therefore the reader "triangulates" from a variety of "untrustworthy" sources to figure out the truth.
So is the moral of the story, don't believe everything you see on YouTube and the Daily Show?

Noteworthy:
Paul Cappucio, General Counsel of Time Warner said the music industry is doing FINE. !?!!?

Larry Lessig seemed intent on brawling with ALEX KEEN (whose business card dubs himself "the antichrist of silicon valley") on matters in Keen's book, "The Cult of the Amateur: how today's internet is killing our culture." Foo Session or not, participants deserve to be let in on what took the appearance of a domestic squabble, with most of the action offstage.

For a different take, see:
Valley Zen coverage of Professional versus Amateur Content

Panelists (L to R) : Lawrence Lessig, Andrew Keen, Hal Varian, Tom Rubin, Paul Cappuccio, and the Honorable Alex Kozinski

Bagels for the dissing dairy.
The chocolate muffins were roundly praised. Those with mouth metal stuck to yoghurt.

Or is it Center for Internet and Society? After a full day Saturday, I have a stack of cards, and a jumble of notes. Then there was the Open Source reception..followed by the sale at Tommy Bahama on Sunday....a busy weekend it was .......up next: our interview with Andrew Keen, author of the controversial "The Cult Of The Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture"
Followed by World of Warcraft.....who said we're not eclectic :)

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