A Blogospheric MMORPG?

Curtis Gale Weeks has some interesting thoughts on the similarities between massive online multi-player role-playing games like World of Warcraft and blogs. I see them myself, but the differences are massive.

Facebook: The Origins of Totalitarianism?

Ari Melber:

When one of America’s largest electronic surveillance systems was launched in Palo Alto a year ago, it sparked an immediate national uproar. The new system tracked roughly 9 million Americans, broadcasting their photographs and personal information on the Internet; 700,000 web-savvy young people organized online protests in just days. Time declared it “Gen Y’s first official revolution,” while a Nation blogger lauded students for taking privacy activism to “a mass scale.” Yet today, the activism has waned, and the surveillance continues largely unabated.