links for 2007-06-25

Now Janet Street-Porter thinks the spate of teenage suicides in Northern Ireland has something to do with the Internet: “[T]he internet’s true negative power is to replace real relationships and friendships with cyber pals.”

Two Yale law students are suing an operator and several anonymous users of AutoAdmit.com for psychological and economic injury including the loss of a job due to defamtory comments left by the anonymous users.

“It has been the work of les blogueurs, the country’s new chattering class, whose discussions of their leaders’ peccadilloes now threatens to undermine the country’s notoriously strict privacy laws.”

“Britain is one of the most expensive places in Europe to get high-speed internet access, according to switching site Moneysupermarket.”

Richard Sambrook tells David Weinberger: “we don’t own the news anymore. And certainly the gatekeeper role that the media played is gone forever.”

Peter Kirwan: “[T]he economics of print and online are about as compatible as Evian and crude oil.”

“Six percent of the mail coming into [The University of California, Berkeley e-mail system] in May 2007 — across all students, staff, and faculty — is from Facebook. For a single source — a single application — that is a staggering percentage.”

Danah Boyd argues that social networks are becoming class-divided: high-social-status American teens are all on or switching to Facebook while marginalized, low-SES, “non-hegemonic”, teens continue to be drawn to MySpace.

Kevin Anderson: “Newsvine isn’t like most news community sites, but it has features that more news sites should adopt. To encourage participation and community, news sites need to highlight the participation to encourage participation.”</p>

Shane is on-message with today’s Telegraph leader about the BBC’s Glastonbury coverage team: “a world class collection of dull-witted, sycophantic morons.”

“I enjoyed ITV’s new News Knight a lot more than I expected. It’s clearly trying to be a British answer to Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, with a bit of Have I Got News For You thrown in. “

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