i’m giving FB another shot. I’m not very happy about it though. As I was telling MK, I feel like someone’s locked me in a 12yr old girls room and won’t let me out and I pretty much hate it. And I’m worried that the 12yr old is going to come back up, see some stranger in her room and start shrieking and then her parents will come up and start yelling at me asking me what the fuck am I doing in their daughters room.

I don’t know if this is going to work.

This is the

A bunch of folks have e-mailed me recently regarding the

so I’m back, yes. I don’t have much to say but I feel like everyone will think I’m still vacationing until I post something here.

Someone should have warned me that relationships took up this much energy. jeesh. How can anyone do this and still hold down a job?

I met with my legal advisor this morning (coincidentally my best friend, Jonny from high school) to ask him questions about the whole charitable status thing. Actually, I shouldn’t call him my advisor, even here. He’s specifically *not* my lawyer and *not* giving me real legal advice. Now that I feel not so intimidated by the whole “incorporation” thing, charitable status arrives to kick my ass. Apparently it’s one of the areas in Canadian law most in need of updating. That doesn’t bode well for me trying to start a whole web/internet-thingie non-profit.

Not much going on here though. I’m in full-on simmer mode intellectually. Not noticing much of interest, and don’t have much to say. You should probably just come back in september ;-)

MK - I just need a few more days to add the blinking jpegs on the about page.

I went to this party last night underneath the overpass next to the train tracks. Right outside my house. It’s like people took over my living room. It’s apparently the party that facebook made. I’m rethinking joining the FB. . . mostly because the party was pretty good.

The weird thing was that I could detect absolutely no tension about the whole Temporary autonomous zone thing. It was totally chill - which I found .. kinda lame. The last time I was at a party like that was at the anti-globalization protest in Quebec city in 2001. Now *that* was a intense overpass party.

couple more links:
-lessig leaves copyright and turns to gov corruption

-Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace by danah boyd

Over the last six months, i’ve noticed an increasing number of press articles about how high school teens are leaving MySpace for Facebook. That’s only partially true. There is indeed a change taking place, but it’s not a shift so much as a fragmentation. Until recently, American teenagers were flocking to MySpace. The picture is now being blurred. Some teens are flocking to MySpace. And some teens are flocking to Facebook. Which go where gets kinda sticky, because it seems to primarily have to do with socio-economic class.

What I lay out in this essay is rather disconcerting. Hegemonic American teens (i.e. middle/upper class, college bound teens from upwards mobile or well off families) are all on or switching to Facebook. Mar