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Benkler, Jenkins, Sunstein: The good, the bad, the ugly

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(Note that the order of names in the title is not meant to imply a specific relationship to the adjectives in the subtitle. I went with alphabetical.)

Last night I grabbed the red line over to MIT after work and saw a wonderful event put on by the MIT Communications Forum, entitled: Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.

Fuzzy photo of Sunstein, Benkler, and Jenkins

Audio from the event (Real Audio format) has already been posted, so if you find my chaotic “liveblogging” style notes below interesting, be sure to check it out. (They will post video on the seminar page soon as well).

My *very rough* notes:
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New Action Stream: TripIt Activity

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TripIt
As regular readers of Open Parenthesis know, I’ve been using Movable Type Open Source (and particularly the Action Streams plugin) on JohnEckman.com to create a life stream of activity.

It’s basically a roll-your-own lifestream, though for now at least it isn’t integrated to anyone else’s streams, as in Friendfeed or Socialthing.

This morning I posted a new plugin which picks up TripIt Activity Streams.

TripIt’s activity stream is a private Atom feed which posts an item whenever you begin a trip, complete a trip, or start planning a trip. For example, here’s a recent entry from my feed:

An entry from my feed

You can download the plugin from the MTAS page.

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Twitter Clouds

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Check out Tweet Clouds – new app which uses the Twitter API to create a tag cloud based on your tweets, optionally suppressing @s and removing stop words.

Here’s mine (click to see full size):

Twitter Cloud

I wonder how much this changes over time, or how far back they are able to grab tweets.