Archive for October 24th, 2006

Digital Graffiti as a Social Media/Social Expression Tool

Last night’s first-ever Washington Mobile Monday covered the concept of digital graffiti, which consists basically of public screens that display the content of text messages sent to a particular shortcode or phone number. We played around with an example last night and it was a ton of fun — imagine blog-style collective conversation, but projected on a wall in front of us.

Stephen Randall, CEO of LocaModa, which developed the Wiffiti digital graffiti tool we were using, talked about rolling the technology out in coffeeshops and bars, possibly linked to social networking applications (hmmmmm, let’s find the profile of the person who just wrote that I was hot!) as well as on huge screens in public places (imagine a massive public conversation board in Times Square, also connected to the web and hence readable from anywhere in the world).

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Facebook as a Political Organizing Tool

Hi folks, I’m just back from a long weekend whitewater rafting in West Virginia — nothing like a solid dose of 55-degree water and sheer terror to focus the mind. A bunch of potential articles have piled up over the four days I’ve been out of the loop, so let’s get started.

First up, Kira Marchenese at Environmental Defense has been learning a lot in the past few weeks about using Facebook for political organizing, and she’s put together some quick bullet points about its strengths that she’s graciously allowed me to reprint. Rumor has it that Republican candidates and causes have been using the site more effectively than progressives — lefties, take note.

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