Comments on: musing about facebook and enfranchisement

By: Bloggled… « Stottpot’s Weblog

Bloggled… « Stottpot’s Weblog — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:18:17 +0000

[...] of disenfranchised groups from Wispa lovers to Lefty [...]

By: JP Rangaswami

JP Rangaswami — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:36:57 +0000

Thank you, I have visited the site and read the post and the about me. You may be interested in a later post of mine, sometime yesterday, on necessities and jaded tastes, which touches on the issue of west versus east as well.

There have been many cases where one region’s trivial pastime is another region’s business. The outsourcing and offshoring of the actual play of the early stages in internet gaming is an example, where western students were contracting Indian students to “play” through a few levels of the games.

Wispa may be a trivial example; the more recent stories about HSBC and student overdrafts, or the one Stephen Smoliar quoted, about Egypt and Hosni Mubarak, these are far more powerful.

By: Stott Pot

Stott Pot — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:35:06 +0000

I have written a my reflections on this whole Facebook enfranchisement on my blog.
I invite you to read it.

http://stottpot.wordpress.com/

By: Facebook Phenomena « Stottpot’s Weblog

Facebook Phenomena « Stottpot’s Weblog — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:22:58 +0000

[...] Tuesday September 04th 2007, 5:22 am Filed under: West meets East According to confused in calcutta, a Facebook group in UK has gained the power to make Cadbury reinstate it’s apparently much [...]

By: Stephen Smoliar

Stephen Smoliar — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:38:17 +0000

I just posted the latest word on the HSBC story on my own blog at:

http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2007/08/its-not-just-about-candy-bars.html

By: Stephen Smoliar

Stephen Smoliar — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:55:02 +0000

Dave, your point about “having access to the technology and the ability to operate it” is definitely an important one. However, since I seem to have become the reader who can always find the cloud behind the silver lining, I quickly recognized another problem: The ability to “operate” a system can easily be turned into the ability to “game” it, i.e. distort the behavior to achieve personal gain. I was just reading about the “Chinese democracy” phenomenon that brought down the Italian fan site devoted to Guns N’ Roses, GNRonline.it. I read this in the same context as my own recent historical account of the deterioration of Usenet content. The risk is that anything that provides power to the disenfranchised can also end up providing power to the enfranchised to drive the disenfranchised back into disenfranchisement!

By: david cushman

david cushman — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:14:33 +0000

hoo-hah! I think I’ll hold a wispa party! Big fan I was!

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:24:17 +0000

And now it’s Facebook vs HSBC !
http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/finance/story/0,,2155763,00.html

By: Dave - Lifekludger

Dave - Lifekludger — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:06:47 +0000

Chocolate bars and Beetroot for consumers is good. And the power of social fabric to help the disenfranchised.

This, obviously, all depends on the people having access to the technology and the ability to operate it.

I wonder about the next level down, those who are marginalized to the point of no access – access to a social fabric, the technology or even the power of choice of food groups.

There’s many levels to being disenfranhised. I like to see how the higher levels can help those lower and maybe extend the social fabric for social good.

Dave – Lifekludger

By: Today chocolate, tomorrow ….. ? « The Bankwatch

Today chocolate, tomorrow ….. ? « The Bankwatch — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:24:27 +0000

[...] What I find odd, although a sign of the times, is the phrase ‘web interest’ in this quote. I think they mean ‘people interest’. Hat tip JP. [...]