Harvard Professor Yochai Benkler created the term "Commons-based peer production" (CCPP) to label systems of user contributions to projects -- offline and online -- in more academic-ish terms.  Whether it's modding a Linux distribution or scrapping someone's edits on Wikipedia, CCPP promotes a sense of ownership within a project's volunteer contributor base.  The question is: which online methods for peer production do you feel best promote a sense of ownership for their users? Comments? Forums? Media Sharing? Wikis? Anything else?

The evil RSS monkey (that lives in the closet) decided to slip a banana in the Kaynobi feed, so if you've imported this blog into your reader you might see posts with:

1. A long picture.
2. A very short paragraph
3. or a long picture crushing a short paragraph

To temporarily remedy the RSS monkey's damage, please click on the article title in your RSS feed to see the post in its entirety.  There's a lot more to the articles than what's presented in the reader! (Except for this one).

Can you find the masked stranger in the crowd?

Today, a vast and diverse crowd gathered to witness what CNN calls a "transformation" of leadership for the United States.  President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden pledged their service to the country next to family, staff, rivals, and a crowd of two million. 

A extremely niche group also came to support the new executive team.  As the consistently proclaimed winners of the classic online debate, ninjas popped into the ceremony to provide Obama and Biden an extra bit of encouragement and deadly ninjustu protection.  They vanished into the crowd just as quickly as they appeared:

Image by Gilberto Viciedo

The new anthem of "Change" has been thrown around across all forms of media today.  You hear it on TV, listen to it on the radio, find it on your neighbor's shirt, and yes, sometimes see it swimming in your morning Alpha-bits.  What can you do to, well, turn that change in your pocket into effective "Change?"

Lucky, my Intro to Online Communities class asked us to browse through a few social-change focused sites on the 'Net.  These sites prove that out of many media types, the Web is perhaps the most conducive to large-scale, rapid, and effective change.  Join me as I break down the capabilities of each site to put some social oomph behind your paper presidents or recess break/nap time.