Some March Social Media Highlights

29Mar07

A few highlights from March 2007:

Continued growth in Second Life: I really figured that SL would be in the trough of discontent by now but they continue to press on. This past month, the European Union has expressed interest in opening up a digital embassy in SL; judge Richard Posner entered Second Life to promote his upcoming book on the Constitution; and Warner Brothers used Second Life to promote their blockbuster 300.
Suing YouTube continues to be hip: Viacom filed a lawsuit against YouTube and Google Inc., seeking $1 billion in damages and demanding that its content be removed from the site. The suit brings into question many prominent issues including the significance of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).
John McCain’s pro-lesbian MySpace page: John McCain’s MySpace page was ‘tweaked’ by Newsvine co-founder Mike Davidson, who also happened to be the designer of the template used by McCain on his MySpace page. The updated (false) copy explained that McCain had reversed his position on gay marriage and “come out in full support of gay marriage … particularly marriage between passionate females.”
Twitter? Apparently, people are talking about twitter but I still don’t know what it does.

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1 Michael Hill on Mar 29th, 2007 said:

Regarding Google-suits, this will indeed be a good test of how the evolving state of internet publishing will affect change on traditional media, copywrite, free speech and exchange of ideas and most immediately, commerce.

Just a little sidenote – Mark Cuban, who’s always shaking things up, has recently done the “hip” thing and filed a subpeona with the web giant:

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-google8mar08,1,6718073.story?coll=la-headlines-technology

What a character! His stake in Yahoo and criticism of Youtube would be just motivation for his actions, but perhaps he’s “bigger picture” than this, having means to speed of legal clarification of a very unregulated medium for greater good. With the seemingly manifest destiny social media possesses, the blurred boundries and new grey areas are costing media dinosaurs a lot of money.

If you haven’t seen this already, you and your readers will certainly enjoy this snippet, Cuban’s debate with Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Fred von Lohman:

http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/03/mark_cuban_and_.html

I’ve enjoyed regular perusing of your blog – and recently was especially impressed with your article “Putting Web 2.0 in Perspective,” coming across it in my research for a job interview with v-Fluence. (which went well – just trying to guage whether an associate position would be considered “grunt” or “ground floor” for a burgeoning PR pro such as myself… thoughts?)

Best,

Michael
2 Ether Breather on Mar 30th, 2007 said:

Michael,

Thanks for checking out the site, and thanks for the contribution to the posting! I’ll be sure to check those links out later today.

As for your question about v-Fluence – they are a great organization! I think it would be more appropriate for me to discuss any specific questions you have via e-mail though
3 Michael Hill on Mar 30th, 2007 said:

yes of course – please feel free to email me at the address submitted with my comments.

Cheers,

Michael
4 Michael Hill on Apr 4th, 2007 said:

FYI – CorpBlogging expert Debbie Weil posted this regarding Twitter, a CBS interview with Robert Scoble:

http://www.blogwriteforceos.com/blogwrite/2007/03/still_not_atwit.html