'Social media is playing a vital role in Syria's conflict, as both sides try to shape domestic and international opinion in their favour. Chilling videos of acts of brutality have the power to go viral and be broadcast on global TV networks - but sometimes, the pictures aren't everything they appear to be.' "Some facebook pages really look like hit lists."

'The pre-Interent double-take zone was fairly stable. Double-take events were truly serendipitous and generally didn’t go anywhere. Most relationship options expired due to low social and geographic mobility. A random encounter was just a random encounter. Since double-take encounters temporarily dislocate people from the default context through which you know them, and make them temporarily more alive after, you could say the double-take zone is coming alive with nascent relationships: relationships that have been dislodged from a fixed physical or digital context, but haven’t yet been socially situated. There is an additional necessary condition for more to happen: the double-take moment must also destabilize default assumptions about relative status. ...one of the effects of the breakdown of the middle class and trading-up is that status relationships become context-dependent. There is no default context. You never know when you might turn a barista into a new friend after a double-take encounter, or renew a relationship with an old one via a Facebook Like. The sane default attitude today is the world is small and life is long. Reinventing yourself is becoming prohibitively expensive.'

'The creation of the #riotcleanup hashtag, along with others including #riotwombles, #liverpoolcleanup and #solidarity, was followed by the launch of the Twitter account @Riotcleanup. -- ...the social networks are also being used to vent anger with two sites launched already to name and shame the looters. Using the vast amount of video footage and photographs that people have captured whilst out on the streets, or simply trying to get home -- members of the public are being asked to identify looters. Metropolitan Police officers are now trawling social networks for photographs of looters or for looters boasting about their hauls, but they are also urging members of the public to send images and footage in. They are posting them online to their Flickr account.'

'A crucial lesson, he said, is the power of nonviolence: “If somebody is beating you, don’t attack him. Don’t use any violence against them. Just take photos of them and put them on the Internet.”' -- Everyday anarchy

'John Young and his partner Deborah Natsios started the website Cryptome.org a decade before Wikileaks was around, releasing classified and secret government documents from all over the world. Young also goes all over photographing what he calls "sensitive site," which he puts on the website in an area called the "eyeball series." He let us tag along to see New York City through his eyes.'

'Score another one for Marshall McLuhan, who in 1970 predicted, “World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” -- “I think we’re going toward perpetual revolution,” says Barrett Brown. “The nation-state is an institution that developed in a different environment. That environment has changed very drastically. And it’s changed more drastically in a very short period than any change we’ve seen in human history. “So people need to stop looking at the last 20 years and saying this is what’s possible and this is what’s not possible — because it’s all possible.”'

'Anonymous works via message boards in which nobody posts under a name. That means that in general whether something happens or not is dependent on whether the basic call being issued is appealing or not. In general if anonymous is after you it is because you are just annoying enough to make going after you a priority for the world hacking community. This is why it is impossible to stop or discredit. Quoting a spokesman for anonymous has exactly as much value as asking a random person on the street. Anonymous is anonymous – that means that no one directs it and nobody speaks for it. What ideals it has are those held by the mass of humanity – these truths that we all hold to be self evident. This is also why one can’t really call anonymous “hated.” Without names there is no identity – so tactics aimed at identities fall flat. Anonymous is immune to ad-hominem attacks. The only real alternative is to try and modify your behaviour or come up with a good argument against anonymous action.'

'Among Harris' experiments touched on in the film is the art project "Quiet: We Live in Public," an Orwellian, Big Brother type concept developed in the late '90s which placed more than 100 artists in a human terrarium under New York City, with myriad webcams following and capturing every move the artists made. The pièce de résistance was a Japanese-style capsule hotel outfitted with cameras in every pod, and screens that allowed each occupant to monitor the other pods installed in the basement by artist Jeff Gompertz. The film's website describes how, "With Quiet, Harris proved how, in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public."'

'The 21st century with its Internet exposure has been as unkind to the powers-that-be as the 20th century was gracious. The 20th century was a kind of promotional bubble, but the bubble has surely been lanced in the 21st. The elite is struggling to keep up. The unrest in the Middle East has surely been inspired by the Anglosphere – which trained Egyptian youth on Western soil to agitate at home – but there is a sense of desperation about these machinations that was never apparent in the 20th century. Nor were CIA black ops discussed in open forum in real time as they are today. The blogosphere not only ferrets out the black ops – WikiLeaks and the like – but in some cases it actually ANTICIPATES them. Almost everything that the Anglosphere does these days is predicted, dissected and – often – debunked. It is hard to build world government by stealth when your methods of operation are well known and no one much believes the rhetoric anymore.'

'Imagine that instead of the many iterations of Wikileaks now appearing to receive and publish documents, that more of the Anonymous-type hacks simply steal and torrent the family jewels of the spies, officials, lobbyists and corporations believing they own the territory in order to show the extent of their secret predations on the public. The digitization of vast archives of government, commercial and non-governmental organizations to facilitate their hegemony provides a bounty to be hacked repeatedly despite attempts to prevent it by vainly inept cybersecurity agencies... The cyber-racket cartel will yell, hit the Internet Switch. Too late, too late. Anonymous controls the switch. Sure, Anonymous can be compromised with sufficient hostile and friendly inducements, but so can the predators, perhaps moreso the latter now revealed to be vulnerable. ...Anonymous and the promise it offers surpasses the Nymous authoritatives of secrecy frantically attempting to ban its greatest threat.'

'Greetings HBGary (a computer "security" company), Your recent claims of "infiltrating" Anonymous amuse us, and so do your attempts at using Anonymous as a means to garner press attention for yourself. How's this for attention? You've clearly overlooked something very obvious here: we are everyone and we are no one. If you swing a sword of malice into Anonymous' innards, we will simply engulf it. You cannot break us, you cannot harm us, even though you have clearly tried... You think you've gathered full names and home addresses of the "higher-ups" of Anonymous? You haven't. You think Anonymous has a founder and various co-founders? False. You believe that you can sell the information you've found to the FBI? False. You have blindly charged into the Anonymous hive, a hive from which you've tried to steal honey. Did you think the bees would not defend it? Well here we are. You've angered the hive, and now you are being stung.'

'Richard Maybury: I think Wikileaks is the beginning of what will turn out to be the biggest political development in a thousand years. Or say for the next thousand years. Pretty soon it will be impossible for governments to operate in secrecy and once everybody knows what every government is doing it's going to be a different world. -- Daily Bell: We think the elite is fighting back with false flag operatives. We think Julian Assange might be one. Agree? Richard Maybury: I don't know anything about Mr. Assange personally so I can't really comment on that, but as far as false flag operatives, that has to be a near certainty. Once everybody knows what you are doing your only defense for what you are doing is to spread a bunch of lies so that nobody believes anything. I think that's what governments are probably doing now. They are trying to spread so many lies that no one will believe anything, including the truth.'

"World War III will be a guerrilla information war, with no division between military and civilian participation." -- Marshall McLuhan

"At electric speed, everything becomes x-ray." -- Electric Age: #1974 End of secrecy #1976 Instantaneous/simultaneous information world #1977 Post-literate generation #1977 Surveillance #1977 Loss of private identity

'Herdict Web is the first collaborative, real-time map of Internet accessibility. Herdict Web seeks to present a real-time picture of Web site accessibility and inaccessibility. By crowdsourcing data from individuals around the world, Herdict Web allows you to see what is inaccessible, where it's inaccessible, and for how long. You can see which countries have the most reports, and which Web sites are most often reported. You can track inaccessibility by country, by keyword, across regions, and over time. Your contributions are what drive the herd.'

'...a stranger in a mall or restaurant could photograph you, then go online to profile you. "People will be able to instantaneously find out about you," Calo says. Still, in a world of pervasive sensors, troubling data correlations are cropping up in unanticipated ways. For instance, most consumers are ignorant about how smartphones equipped with GPS location finders routinely "geotag" photos and videos, embedding images with the longitude and latitude of the location shown in the image. Last summer, industrial designer Adam Savage, co-host of the TV show MythBusters, used his iPhone to snap a photo of his Toyota Land Cruiser parked in front of his house, then posted it on Twitter. In doing so, Savage, in effect, publicly disclosed where he lives.

'IpaidABribe.com is Janaagraha’s unique initiative to tackle corruption by harnessing the collective energy of citizens. You can report on the nature, number, pattern, types, location, frequency and values of actual corrupt acts on this website. Your reports will, perhaps for the first time, provide a snapshot of bribes occurring across your city. We will use them to argue for improving governance systems and procedures, tightening law enforcement and regulation and thereby reduce the scope for corruption in obtaining services from the government. We invite you to register any recent or old bribes you have paid. Please tell us if you resisted a demand for a bribe, or did not have to pay a bribe, because of a new procedure or an honest official who helped you. We do not ask for your name or phone details, so feel free to report on the formats provided.'

'Digital records are the impulses travelling through the nervous systems of dynamic, distributed organisations of all sizes. They are intended, from the beginning, to circulate with ease. Otherwise such organisations would fall apart and dynamism would grind to a halt. The more flexible and distributed organisations become, the more records they need to produce and the faster these need to circulate. Due to their distributed aspect and the pressure for cross-organisational cooperation, it is increasingly difficult to keep records within particular organisations whose boundaries are blurring anyway. People are asked to identify personally with organisations who can either no longer carry historical projects worthy of major sacrifices... This creates the cognitive dissonance that justifies, perhaps even demands, the leaker to violate procedure and actively damage the organisation of which he, or she, has been at some point a well-acculturated member (this is the difference to the spy).'

'He's not doing it to give to uncover the lies and corruption of the of the U.S. Government – that's the byproduct. That this will force institutions and departments to wall off and not communicate with one another – that's the primary goal. That's why Assange doesn't care whether the cables are salacious or revealing, only that there be a lot of them, leaked slowly over time – to make people too nervous to work. His goal isn't to tell you what's in the truck but to stop trucking. If people know their secrets might be leaked, they'll be reluctant to put their secrets in a truck. Eventually, they will simply stop trucking. When they stop trucking, they go out of business. Will it work? I doubt it: individual human beings (today) assume they are able to control when and how other people perceive them... If the government can't control the cargo or the trucks, it will try to control the roads. Since it can't, it will get private sector industry to do so.'

'I suspect that the people who need Digital Mirror the most are the ones who will recognize that need the least. Still, it may help the semi-self-aware to improve their personal relations – or at least to be more aware of the trade-offs they make when they favor one friend or colleague over another. This all reflects a trend toward greater clarity in our relations. Facebook and other social tools operate under the covers: Facebook notices which friends you interact with and whose photos you comment on in order to select the items in your NewsFeed or the ads you see. But Facebook does not show that information to you. Digital Mirror does. Within a few years, this kind of transparency will probably be commonplace, both from Facebook and from ad networks and behavioral targeters trying to derive information about your likely purchases. But right now, only Digital Mirror is one of the few to give you the ability to do the same for yourself.'

'The most alarming fall-out from Big Brother is that it has ushered in a surveillance society, to which everyone contributes. No specialised area of human life, no tiny detail of behaviour, is now so trivial that we won't report it to each other with high seriousness, as if it were a dispatch from a war zone. And in the intervening years, we've quietly become a nation of housemates, endlessly spied on by authorities and by businesses. The surveyed have become the surveyors. "Them" has become "Us." Ten years of watching human guinea pigs and lab-rats at close quarters, living out their three-month imprisonment in a prefabricated hell, has given us a taste for prying into each other's lives and dramatising the trivial details of our own, while making everything public on electronic screens. Perhaps, like Winston Smith at the end of Orwell's masterpiece, we've finally given in. We love Big Brother.'

'To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not. We must understand the key generative structure of bad governance[1] -- A man in chains knows he should have acted sooner for his ability to influence the actions of the state is near its end. To deal with powerful conspiratorial actions we must think ahead and attack the process that leads to them since the actions themselves can not be dealt with. We can deceive or blind a conspiracy by distorting or restricting the information available to it. We can reduce total conspiratorial power via unstructured attacks on links or through throttling and separating. A conspiracy sufficiently engaged in this manner is no longer able to comprehend its environment and plan robust action.'

'#1. Mixi Users Tend to Use Nicknames. #2. Who’s Viewed Your Facebook Profile? We don’t know who’s viewed our Facebook profile. Mixi users feel safe in using Mixi because they can see who has viewed their profile with the “ashiato” (“footprint”) functionality. This is not a for-fee service like LinkedIn: it is a fundamental part of the Mixi platform that is guaranteed for all users. Will Facebook create this functionality for the Japanese market? #3. Mixi is Community-Centric. Aligned with using nicknames, Mixi users join a lot of communities where they can learn new information all the while keeping their anonymity. Facebook has its share of Groups, which are similar to Mixi communities, but again, there is no anonymity in Facebook. This could potentially make it harder to create the same types of strong communities that are one of the cornerstones of Mixi.'

'Last week I showed my dental hygienist who else was checked in to the dentist's office on Foursquare at the same time I was, and her first reaction was concern about HIPAA (the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which regulates the security and privacy of health-related data). She decided no one could stop the patients themselves from exposing their own location; she just couldn't confirm to me whether or not she actually knew who those people were.'

'...Schell predicts a time (in the not-so-distant future) when technology has become cheap and ubiquitous enough that almost everything we do will be a sort of game. Schell ends on an optimistic note about how all of this record-keeping and game-playing might make us better people. But it doesn’t change the fact that the world he envisions is one in which our actions are chosen by the points we get for them. ...if videogame achievements can make us ignore the end goal in favor of a little gold star, is there any doubt that real-life “achievements” can distract us from what’s actually important in life? Certainly, incentives can be used to drive good behavior, but there’s no guarantee that companies or organizations able to provide the most effective incentives will be the ones with the most altruistic motives. (And, of course, if I’m the one unconsciously making up my own achievements, I know they’re not always going to be what’s best for me.)'

'For each leaf on your tree, you can choose from Mindbloom’s recommended actions or create your own (like take the stairs or swap out a cup of coffee for water). After adding an action to your leaf, simply schedule the days you intend to do it during the week (Monday through Sunday). As you complete your scheduled actions, you’ll earn seeds. But to keep your leaves healthy and green, you’ll need to do at least 50% (yes, half) of your actions you’d scheduled for each day that week. In Mindbloom, points are called seeds. These seeds are earned when you take those small steps (actions) towards your goals, passions or dreams. Spend those seeds to grow a Life Tree with more branches, leaves and actions... In Mindbloom, not only can you view your own accomplishments via the Journey feature, but you can also view the Journeys of all your friends. -- Advertising and Marketing Partners: ...make goods and services available to users as an opt-in opportunity based on users goals and intentions'

'Consumers who mouse over the icon will get a view of all the data that was used to target the ad, as well as the option to opt-out of future targeting by those companies.' -- The Principle: Show me *me*. The Test: Does your brand substantiate and celebrate an authentic, mutual affinity, i.e., do you 'get' me?

'It wasn't supposed to happen this way... The crises were supposed to be resolvable... The American economy was supposed to get better along with the EU. China was supposed to go on without disruption. The elite, we have noted, likes its crises hot but not too hot. A crisis that bubbles over is not controllable. An uncontrollable crisis is unpredictable. Unpredictability makes the elite uncomfortable. And so to war? The UN has passed more resolutions. The convoys steam toward Iran. Elite promotions fizzle, and disruptions to civil society must be maximized. Out of chaos, comes order. Or that is the plan. But we wonder how well it will work this time as it all plays out under the scrutiny of the Internet and tens of thousands of blogs. The crises are worse and worse and the masses of the West are awakening in our opinion. We are not sure the elite will get the increased power centralization they seek—and more global governance—not any time soon. These are unprecedented times.'

'The menacingly-named Human Flesh Search Engine has made headlines around the world, but it remains largely misunderstood and its deeper implications unexplored. Daedalum Films examines the origins of this Chinese Internet phenomenon, dissects its most dramatic cases, and asks the question: "what can the Human Flesh Search Engine tell us about modern China?"' -- 'The Context: Confucian righteousness ("A lot of the time, people dont't believe in government, so they want to do it themselves.") and liitle need of, or respect for, privacy.

'We define an electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures. Each owner transfers the coin to the next by digitally signing a hash of the previous transaction and the public key of the next owner and adding these to the end of the coin. A payee can verify the signatures to verify the chain of ownership. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network. The network timestamps transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing the proof-of-work.'

'You and I sign a contract. In the contract, we specify a private arbitrator. The contract includes the private arbitrator’s public key. The contract is digitally signed by both you and me. Now, you think I violated the contract. You demand arbitration. The arbitrator rules that I owe you damages. I refuse to pay. The arbitrator writes a brief statement that I agreed to—that he would be the arbitrator of disputes, that he gave a verdict, and that I refused to pay the damages. Digitally signs it and gives it to you. You now have a package. That package consists of the original contract which I digitally signed, so provably I agreed to it, and the arbitrator’s verdict, which he digitally signed, so provably the arbitrator I agreed to, said that I cheated. You may now e-mail that package to anybody else in the industry. -- You want the arbitrator who gets the right result at low cost. This is a market mechanism for generating efficient law for the private market.'

'#Stage Four: Greed: Because Foursquare is meant to be a game, of sorts, there are winners (people who check in all over the place) and losers (people who don't). And as soon as you figure this out--generally after a week of just-for-fun use--the novelty wears off, and the competition kicks in. -- #Stage Five: Apathy: You've scored at least one week atop the Leaderboard. But since the charts reset every week, and you don't get as many points for re-visiting the same places, your moment of glory is fleeting. ...you kind of stop caring. What initially excited you about Foursquare--apart from being able to keep tabs on people you know, which you still may want to do--was getting "rewards" for living your everyday life. Once you have to start working for them (spending more money, traveling greater distances), you realize they're not actually worth it. -- That, or you start appreciating Foursquare for what it really is: a simple(r) way to stalk your friends.'

*sigh* Just another Aspergers kid trying to rid the world of his own social anxiety: 'Kazanjy says all those negative opinions/rumors are already out there, lurking in blog posts and comments. His site, Kazanjy says, merely condenses, organizes, and helps you refute those claims. I disagree, I think it encourages defamation by ensuring a forum.'

'Unvarnished is a social Ponzi scheme - borrowing reputation from another, to amp up one's own (until one's own gets trashed). Those economics are so 20th century, it hurts. Unvarnished is the endgame of the "social web". I'm going to mark it as the day the "social web" became antisocial. Increasingly, today's "social web" doesn't empower people. It empowers hate, exclusion, and polarization, to put it bluntly. That's as lame and brain-dead as what went on on Wall St a few years back: hurting others to extract value from them. Except, of course, Wall St actually made billions. Social media's as bankrupt financially as it is ethically and economically: a trifecta of lameness.'

'Consider a young woman, Chloe, who has a close set of confidants – say 15 friends, both male and female – to whom she is extremely close. She also is part of a larger scene of 100 people or people that she sees frequently, but knows less well. And she may part of a even larger sphere ... Imagine if her geolocational information was propagated in correspondingly less detail as her Foursquare posts moved outward through these circles of trust. Her inner circle might see exactly where she is -- a certain corner of a certain bar -- and also might receive that information in real-time. Her 100 or so good friends might learn that she is in the Meatpacking district, or Nolita, but specifics would be blurred. So if one of that 100 had been invited to the same party they might be able to infer that Chloe was there, too. But they would have to directly ask her to get confirmation, and she could simply opt not to respond. And that information might be delayed by 15 minutes or 30 minutes, also.'

Comment: crinklebat: "One of the smartest things my department in college UCSD Computer Science did was use a program called GradeSource. It set up anonymized leaderboards for your classes, so you could look yourself up by your secret number (a random six-digit code handed out at the beginning of the quarter) and see how you measured up to everyone else in class on every assignment, every exam, everything. Within minutes of every set of grades being finalized, you could see where you ranked on it. I definitely felt more engaged in classes where I could see, homework by homework, where I stood exactly in relation to my classmates. If I was near the top, I'd work harder to stay there. People near the bottom could drop knowing exactly how screwed they were, rather than engaging in elaborate, pathetic guesswork. Getting the top score on a homework or exam did feel like I'd just gotten an achievement."

'Carles invites his readers to make explicit the implicit surveillance they are already conducting, led onward by an administered proclivity for passive curiosity and vicarious fascination with famous persons ... and become actual informants, supplying him with information as if he were a Stasi bureau chief in charge of cultural subversives: Recommended TIP submissions: #mild misunderstandings that need more exposure to turn into over-exposed controversies... And so on. Carles's point of course, is to demonstrate how the media machine no longer needs diabolical masters to operate it ... Instead we create the material bases for our own ideological predetermination through our own eagerness to participate in the mystified consciousness and culture industries. By reporting on one another, we feel as though we have become more famous ourselves, more certain that every move of our own is being watched and evaluated...'

'Aleks charts how the Web is forging a new brand of politics, both in democracies and authoritarian regimes. Aleks explores how interactive, unmediated sites like Twitter and YouTube have encouraged direct action and politicised young people in unprecedented numbers. Yet, at the same time, the Web's openness enables hardline states to spy and censor, and extremists to threaten with networks of hate and crippling cyber attacks.'

'The public and networked nature of the Internet creates the potential for visibility. We have the ability to see into the lives of so many people who are different than us. But only when we choose to look. So who is looking? Why are they looking? And in what context are they interpreting what they see? By and large, those who are looking are those who hold power over the person being observed. Parents look. Teachers look. Employers look. Governments look. Corporations look. These people are often looking to judge or manipulate. Given the powerful position they are in, those doing the looking often think that they have the right to look. But do they have the right to judge? The right to manipulate? This, of course, is the essence of conversations about surveillance. And so we argue and argue and argue about the right to privacy in public spaces. -- One of the reasons why people fear the technologies we make are because they make thing visible that we don't like.'

'Today, EveryBlock launched a nifty new feature that allows its users to post stories to the site and notify their neighbors about interesting events in their neighborhoods. The new feature allows users to post anything from news alerts to questions and classified ads on the site. EveryBlock wants to give its users the ability to send out announcements for "every imaginable purpose" and describes this new feature as a "21st century community message board."' -- In a sane world – great. In *this* world – snitch, snitch, snitch.

'...although the Demosphere belongs to General Communications Inc., it is the schmos of the world who make it - every time a schmo surfs to a different channel, the Demosphere notes that he is bored with program A and more interested, at the moment, in program B. When a schmo's paycheck is delivered over the I-way, the number on the bottom line is plotted in his Profile, and if that schmo got it by telecommuting we know about that too - the length of his coffee breaks and the size of his bladder are an open book to us. When a schmo buys something on the I-way it goes into his Profile, and if it happens to be something that he recently saw advertised there, we call that interesting, and when he uses the I-way to phone his friends and family, we Profile Auditors can navigate his social web out to a gazillion fractal iterations, the friends of his friends of his friends of his friends, what they buy and what they watch and if there's a correlation.'

'My thought process is private ... the “immediate self” is not a true reflection of what we mean or what we want or what we are. The stream of real-time information to which we are continually supposed to contribute may seem a spontaneous eruption of expression, but it is an expression of pure administration. -- The self we develop in that matrix of perpetual publicity will be more malleable than ever before; there will be no reserve for the individual to draw from, no private experience to shore up a sense of self that the social network rejects or doubts. The endless real-time communication foretells a perfect system for imposing dispersed power on an individual at every moment—to have that individual compulsively referring everything that he regards as significant that he does to the public sphere for comment and recognition, a never-ending compulsion to confess, to invent the anticipated sins and perform the social penances.'

'Peep culture involves watching and being watched, snooping and spying, gawking and gossiping; it means exposing our intimacies with an eye toward bonding with others and growing comfortable with the increasingly common slippage between public and private. Peep culture, like pop culture, informs the atmosphere — it is the atmosphere — in which we live. Writes Niedzviecki, “It’s like that famous line about pornography: you know it when you see it. And you do see it. All the time, everyday, everywhere. -- ...people like Twitter because it's connection with low expectations. And that's a phrase that has stuck with me and has become almost an overarching explanation for the whole peep culture phenomenon. ...we want the feeling of connection without the weight of being expected to do something.”

'Four key conditions for the successful management of shared environmental resources: #information, #identity, #institutions and #incentives ...introducing a system of policing simply creates a second-order free-rider problem - raising the issue of who guards the guards. The key is trust - and the cornerstone for building trust is fairness. ...local water authorities tried to implement drastic water-saving measures... Residents were most likely to comply with authorities if they felt their concerns were taken seriously and they got accurate, unbiased information about the severity of the drought ...the more uncertain we are the more likely we are to bias our decisions in our own narrow self-interest ...the environmental uncertainty caused by a fluctuating resource led individuals to underestimate the damage of their actions and exploit the resource to the point of collapse.'

'Sacramento Municipal Utility District has told 35,000 customers in their monthly bills how their energy use compares with neighbors', and with the district's most-efficient customers. Customers who received the additional information cut their energy use by 2%, compared with a similar group of users who didn't get comparison data. -- Mr. Ariely says people are more likely to take medicines as prescribed if they believe others are watching -- an idea not addressed in typical economic theory. "Why should you care about what other people do? It's irrelevant," to a classical economist, Mr. Ariely says. But not to a behavioral economist.'

'Why did we make Squeelr? Our epiphanic moment occurred during the 2009 Iranian elections, when many Internet users turned their avatars green in protest. We realized that an anonymous communications system was now needed and possible—so we set out to build one. As the application was constructed, we found that the anonymous nature of the communications provided many new possibilities and challenges. We realized that we could solve many of these problems by charging something—even a tiny amount—for each action. This charge ends up providing an economic disincentive for mass-marketers. Similarly, by borrowing from the "wiki" model, we allow anyone to delete a message [for a small cost].' -- Paid, anonymous, capture the flag.

'...people play MMOs like Spymaster for the social experience of gaming with others, research suggests a more solitary experience enriched by the presence of, if not the meaningful interaction with, other players. Researcher Nick Yee identified this as an “alone together” experience, meaning we’re playing in the same space, but we’re not really playing with each other. What is the draw of playing “alone together”? In studying MMOs, Yee observed that "players have important roles beyond providing direct support and camaraderie in the context of quest groups: they also provide an audience, a sense of social presence, and a spectacle.” He said this trio of factors “can help explain the appeal of being ‘alone together’ in multiplayer games.”' -- The players are the content for other players.

'Personal sousveillance is the art, science, and technology of personal experience capture, processing, storage, retrieval, and transmission, such as lifelong audiovisual recording by way of cybernetic prosthetics, such as seeing-aids, visual memory aids, and the like. Even today's personal sousveillance technologies like camera phones and weblogs tend to build a sense of community, in contrast to surveillance that some have said is corrosive to community. "Targeted sousveillance" refers to sousveillance of a specific individual by one or more other individuals. Usually the targeted individual is a representative or proponent of surveillance, so targeted sousveillance is often Inverse Surveillance (hierarchical sousveillance).'

'#Surveillance: There is no privacy. Get used to it! #Sousveillance: There is no secrecy. Get used to it!'

'#1. (techlaw) Sousveillance will become a major force and industry, despite initial opposition. Like surveillance, sousveillance technology will outstrip many laws, and will be another example of technology moving forward more quickly than the legal framework that grows around it. -- #2. (privacy). Over the past 30 years, sousveillance practice has raised many new privacy, legal, and ethical issues, and these issues will become central as the sousveillance industry grows. #9. (differently abled). The space of those considered to be disabled will gradually expand, over time, as the technological threshold falls and the sousveillance industry grows.'

'Equiveillance is a state of equilibrium, or a desire to attain a state of equilibrium, between surveillance and sousveillance. It is sometimes confused with transparency. This balance (equilibrium) allows the individual to construct their own case from evidence they gather themselves, rather than merely having access to surveillance data that could possibly incriminate them. Sousveillance, in addition to transparency, can be used to preserve the contextual integrity of surveillance data. For example, a lifelong capture of personal experience could provide "best evidence" over external surveillance data, to prevent the surveillance-only data from being taken out of context.'