Additional Links

News Sites
New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/
LA Times http://www.latimes.com/
Reuters http://www.reuters.com/
NPR http://www.npr.org/
MTV http://www.mtv.com/
CNET: http://www.cnet.com/?tag=hd_ts
Wired http://www.wired.com/
Readwriteweb http://www.readwriteweb.com/

Relevant Blogs
Smart Mobs http://www.smartmobs.com/
Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/
Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.com/
Smart Mobs - MobileActive? http://mobileactive.org/
The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Get a Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7XC-c70VyI&feature=related

Media Sites
Gawker http://gawker.com/
NewTeeVee? Live http://live.newteevee.com/

Gaming News Sites
Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG) http://www.unfiction.com/
Cloverfield (ARG) http://www.cloverfieldclues.com/
Lost (ARG) http://www.flyoceanicair.com/

Parody Sites
Freaking News http://www.freakingnews.com/

Cloverfield
Cloverfield http://expansivecompression.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/cloverfield/
Cloverfield ARG Article http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2008/01/12/the_marketing_of_cloverfield_has_been_as_mysterious_as_the_movie_itself/

Social Media Sites
Digg - Social News http://www.digg.com
Twitter visit on YouTube? - too funny http://carruthk.blogspot.com/2007/12/twitter-visit-on-youtube-too-funny.html
Twitter Being Used To Promote Television Shows http://blog.ipglab.com/?p=132
Twatter: Who are you doing? http://twatter.org/
Why is Twitter Exploding? Because it's A Conversation Ecosystem http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2007/12/why-is-twitter.html

Rise of the Counterculture
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto

Fans
Comic Book Guy http://www.simpsonstrivia.com.ar/wallpapers/comic-book-guy.htm

Relevant News
smart mobs article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3134559.stm
Hacker Group dubbed "Anonymous" Takes on Scientologyhttp://tinyurl.com/3xva43
US: citizen journalists blog and YouTube? the campaign http://www.editorsweblog.org/news/2008/01/us_citizen_journalists_blog_and_youtube.php
Innovative marketing could turn 'Cloverfield' into a monstrous hit http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2008/01/innovative_marketing_could_tur.html
CNN News: MySpace?, states move to block sex offenders
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/01/14/myspace.agreement.ap/index.html
More Than Games, a Net to Snare Social Networkers http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/technology/15facebook.html?ref=technology
Traditional Media Ready to Elevate the Conversation Online — with Moderation http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/01/digging_deepertraditional_medi_1.html
Verizon's fiber race is on http://www.news.com/Verizons-fiber-race-is-on/2100-1034_3-5275171.html
Foul called over Baghdatis video http://www.smh.com.au/news/tennis/foul-called-over-baghdatis-video/2008/01/18/1200620187640.html
Cop poses as girl, 13, snags mayor online http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/25/undercover.cop.ap/index.html
'Geek war' predicted http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2008/01/26/4795134-sun.html
Newspapers use YouTube? video previews to attract readers http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/080124yung/
HOPE WILL NOT BE TELEVISED: OBAMA YOUTUBE VS. CLINTON CLASH http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=273806
Music Industry Pressures EU Politicians for Filtered Internet http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/12/music-industry-europe-filter-pressure
Politicians seek Internet edge http://www.goupstate.com/article/20071007/NEWS/710070332/1051/NEWS01
Obama's Star-Studded? YouTube? Music Video http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20080202/cm_huffpost/084589
Marches Show Disgust With a Colombian Rebel Group http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/world/americas/05colombiaweb.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
How the Internet Invented Howard Dean http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/dean.html
US warns of Second Life terrorist threat http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2209187/agency-warns-second-life
Smart mob storms London http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3134559.stm
Marches Show Disgust With a Colombian Rebel Group http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/world/americas/05colombiaweb.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
Obama's Big YouTube? Deception http://www.israelenews.com/view.asp?ID=1007
Love: Japanese Style http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1998/06/12899
Why text messaging is so popular, even though it's impersonal http://www.helium.com/tm/497230/cellphone-usage-present-society
Internet Sex Video Case Stirs Free-Speech? Issues in Hong Kong http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/business/worldbusiness/13internet.html?ref=technology
CNN Brings You The YouTube? of Cable News http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-publishing/cnn-brings-you-the-youtube-of-cable-news-002321.php
Bill/Steve's Sexcellent Adventure http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2002/06/53071
Paramount Locks Phasers on Trek Fan Sites http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1996/12/1076
Cell Phone a Tool of Violence in Kenya http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19188853
Hillary Clinton Banned from YouTube? http://separate-equal.net/?p=319
Schoolgirl attack caught on YouTube? http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23251133-661,00.html
YouTube? brings weirdness to Spainish election http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4409744a4560.html
Transmedia Storytelling:Moving characters from books to films to video games can make them stronger and more compelling.http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=13052&ch=biotech&pg=1
Trekkies Aren't Only Fans Going Overboard http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WolfFiles/Story?id=90974&page=1
Nine Propositions Towards a Cultural Theory of YouTube? http://henryjenkins.org/2007/05/9_propositions_towards_a_cultu.html
Antiwar demonstrators use Twitter as smartmobbing tool http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/03/20/antiwar-demonstrators-use-twitter-as-smartmobbing-tool/
http://tinyurl.com/326a8z
Postsecrets http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/
In cyberspace, logging off may signal 'it's over' http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=822503&contrassID=2&subContrassID=11
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign | V\http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker]
CNN Creates Citizen Journalism Channels On Web, In Second Life http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/cnn_creates_cit.html
Chipotle Fan.com http://www.chipotlefan.com/index.php?id=videocontest
Apology for Fake Wikipedia Post http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/12/69810
People Telling Lies On The Internet! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnWI2oStmdw
You Play World of Warcraft? You're Hired http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/learn.html
Excessive texting may signal mental illness http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/watch-out-for-excessive-texting/2008/03/27/1206207266647.html
'Learn What a Blog is' http://njmg.typepad.com/zagsblog/2008/03/hey-michael-wil.html
Google admits YouTube? rape video was 'a mistake' http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3662228.ece
YouTube? 'rape victim' arrested http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/youtube-rape-victim-arrested/2008/04/02/1206850980757.html
Virtual Rape Is Traumatic, but Is It a Crime? http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/sexdrive/2007/05/sexdrive_0504
Rick rolled http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rick+rolled
Couple's online gaming causes infant's death http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/20/news_6127866.html
Another Rape in Cyberspace http://cerise.theirisnetwork.org/archives/188
MUDlist http://www.mudlists.com/
De-Incentivizing? Virtual Rape http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/de-incentivizing-virtual-rape/
GENDER SWAPPING ON THE INTERNET http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/papers/gender-swapping.txt
Video of Teen Beating Raises Questions http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7p-8F2AmE3RXGB9PgWN97LMB4ZgD8VVT94O0
Internet assault video sparks controversy http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13622.cfm
MUDs in Education: New Environments, New Pedagogies http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1995/jan/fanderclai.html
Identity And Virtual World Avatars http://webidentity.wikidot.com/identity-and-virtual-world-avatars
MUD Addiction: Confessions of a Potential Multi User Dungeon Casualty http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/37514/mud_addiction_confessions_of_a_potential.html
Anonymity and Online Community: Identity Matters http://www.alistapart.com/articles/identitymatters
Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith/Identity/IdentityDeception.html
Can "virtual rape" in Second Life be a crime? http://dizzythinks.net/2007/05/can-virtual-rape-in-second-life-be.html
Most Online World Users Swap Gender http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/03/most-online-wor.html
Body of Evidence http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1998/08/14219
Does JuicyCampus? Go Too Far? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/26/scitech/pcanswer/main3968514.shtml
Employers Look At Facebook, Too http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/20/eveningnews/main1734920.shtml
Feature: The Griefer Within http://www.gamepro.com/computer/pc/games/features/107088.shtml
Inflicting pain on 'griefers'http://www.news.com/Inflicting-pain-on-griefers/2100-1043_3-5488403.html?tag=sas.email
Griefers attack Epilepsy Foundation forums. Humanity reaches new low http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/30/griefers-attack-epilepsy-foundation-forums-humanity-reaches-new/
Facebook's squirmy chapter http://www.boston.com/jobs/news/articles/2008/04/16/facebooks_squirmy_chapter/
Does Virtual Reality Need a Sheriff? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/01/AR2007060102671_pf.html
MUDs in Education: New Environments, New Pedagogies http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1995/jan/fanderclai.html
Second Life Lawsuit Lands in Real-World? Court http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/005816.html
PREGNANT MAN http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23942218/
Missing dot on an i leads to a miscommunication that ends in murder: http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail
Gaming Addictions http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24245196/
Deception in the Virtual World: A Semiotic Analysis of Identity http://www.ibiblio.org/nmediac/winter2004/matusitz.html
Identity in a virtual world http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/06/07/virtual_identity/index.html
YouTube?, CNN aim to 'revolutionize' presidential debate process http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9729506-7.html
The Secret Gamer Gender Swap? http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200803/N08.0304.1147.28012.htm
Teledemocracy vs. Deliberate Democracy? http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/tele.html
The impact of the Internet on our daily life http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/cpj/essay.html
Election 2008: The Internet Campaign http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Trends/Election-2008-The-Internet-Campaign/
Politics as Show Business http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/7748.html
POLITICS ONLINE CONFERENCE: Google’s Elliott Schrage on 2008’s ePolitics “Unknowns” http://www.politicstv.com/blog/?p=1875%20-%20GOOGLE%20VIDEO
Transmedia: What Was The Point, Again? http://savetherobot.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/transmedia-what-was-the-point-again/
When TV fans unite, beautiful things can happen http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2007/06/when_tv_fans_un.html
Do Boys (and Girls) Just Wanna Have Fun? Gender-Switching? in Cyberspace http://www-usr.rider.edu/%7Esuler/psycyber/genderswap.html
Text Message Haikus: A SmartMob? Exercise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOn5Am6Lt5E
Does virtual cheating still count? http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/technology&id=5563898
Playboy to Create Own Virtual Worlds This Year? http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/05/playboy-to-crea.html
Leadership’s Online Labs http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?ml_action=get-article&articleID=R0805C&ml_issueid=BR0805&ml_subscriber=true&pageNumber=1&_requestid=51604
Harvard Business Review: MMORPGs as "Leadership’s Online Labs" http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/05/harvard-busines.html
Scorned Gamer Jailed After Vengeful Deletion http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/10/scorned-gamer-j.html
Andrew Keen predicts the end of "free labor" online http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/28/andrew-keen-predicts.html
Air Force Aims to 'Rewrite Laws of Cyberspace' http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/air-force-aims.html
Divorced - for having an affair in Second Life http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/divorced--for-having-an-affair-in-second-life-1017946.html
Is YouTube? the Next Google? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_youtube_the_next_google.php
McCain? vs Obama: the campaigning just got virtual http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/mccain-vs-obama-the-campaigning-just-got-virtual-954386.html
Grand Theft Auto, Twitter and Beowulf all demonstrate that stories will never die http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/11/25/bostory125.xml&page=1

Anonymous vs Scientology
Anonymous steps up its war with Scientology http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9858436-57.html?tag=nefd.pop
Hackers Hit Scientology With Online Attack http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141839-c,hackers/article.html
Hackers declare Scientology D-day http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/02/07/1202234012004.html
Project Chanology http://www.partyvan.info/index.php/Project_Chanology
Breaking: Is the Church of Scientology Suppressing Free Speech? YouTube? Removes More Videos http://glosslip.com/2008/02/15/breaking-is-the-church-of-scientology-suppressing-free-speech-youtube-removes-more-videos/
Jack Myers' Think Tank: Scientology and YouTube?; Strike Impact; Upfronts; And Roger Clemens http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=76658
Fictional Characters Get Virtual Lives, Too http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/arts/television/04CSI.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Facebook not for employers http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/1/24/facebookNotForEmployers
Dot-com fever stirs sense of déjà vu http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/16/business/bubble.php?page=1

Writers Strike
Writers Block http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYC4tD2hNZI&eurl=http://maiaanastasya.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/writers-block-on-youtube/
News on Writers Guild of America http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/writers_guild_of_america/index.html
Globes Show Turns Up Heat on Strike http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Hollywood-Labor.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=writers+strike&oref=slogin
Writers’ Strike Tests the Mettle of 2 Outsiders http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/arts/television/19writers.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Tentative Deal Is Reached in Writers’ Strike http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/business/media/10strike.html?hp

YouTube
Lonelygirl15 http://youtube.com/watch?v=88DbZzzwow0
Human Lobotomy - Save the internet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66PbSzwnLes
Internet is for PORN!! http://youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo
FOX ATTACKS BLOGGERS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpht4sXDhx0&eurl
KU Tests Emergency Text Messaging System http://youtube.com/watch?v=dyH_zEigg4o
Hillary Pathetically Imitating Obama - VERY FUNNY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIzCOQj2lpY
Hillary-Making? Our Dreams Come True- Read "About this Video" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxtN0u23Tdc
Hillary4U&Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FvyGydc8no
William Shatner's "Get a Life" promo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihsSmJNsDX8&eurl=http://senioritis8.blogspot.com/
Defending Trekkies http://youtube.com/watch?v=H7wpbSR-JB4&feature=related
Teletubbies Lean Wit It http://youtube.com/watch?v=gbD2gXtNX94
Transmedia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBusjqW7wRA&eurl=http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com/index.php/2007/05/19/unpacking-a-transmedia-video/
Brokeback of the Rings http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZL4G7uELn6M&feature=related
SxSW PostSecret? Wedding Proposal http://youtube.com/watch?v=xePij4VHVhk
Talking Community: Virtual Communities http://youtube.com/watch?v=IpHKt1IkxqA
Rick Roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
Lensmoor Mud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1TaqB0ANfk
Patriotic Nigras: so I herd you liek griefing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozLYC76WdOA
Secondlife Griefers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPKQ6j9fna4&feature=related
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BARACK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8lvc-azCXY
Intelligence Report 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n29lTR8ybmk

Presidental Commercials
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