Today I came across an interesting video, showing an irritated kid who was mocked and attacked by his older teen brother and his friends while socializing in his own private online space. The video was recorded by his brother with the intent of being “a documentary of how people can be obsessed by My Space.” In the video, the older teens are provoking the child into hysterical behavior and crying as he tries to defend his personal “my space”. They intentionally laugh at him and ask provoking questions, which makes the child hysterical. Teenage cruelty was expressed by classical passive-aggressive behavior with the goal of making this kid feel guilt, using strong accusations that his “obsession” with My Space is “killing us and our family”. The irritated kid was defending his private physical and virtual space, especially since for him My Space is a part of his everyday life (his friends to hang out with- social life).

Kids, and teens, are more often moving to the online playground during the early phases of their socialization and, using that medium, they build relationships and stay connected to their friends. Almost everyday the media talks about potential predators and bullying on My Space, but now I wonder if the real bullying (sometimes) comes from the family or the ‘closest’ ones (in the real world) , in some particular cases because they were not understood by adult culture.

Is My Space a poor excuse for a social life?

More of videos. Common Craft this time presents micro-blogging service: Twitter (in plain English).

I don’t use Russian language, but I really liked what global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi (Moscow) created for Google. Their promo video for Gmail suppose to attract more Russian people to use Gmail. This is how looks local version for global web service. Share & enjoy!

And now something completely different that made my day! Howard Rheingold in his Vlog series on digital culture and social media, now presents hilarious video from his archive (1976) posing as Howard K. Martian, extraterrestrial anthropologist. In this cyberpunkerish eposiode with elements of Monty Python & Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, equipped with a radiomike, Howard roamed the streets of the San Francisco examining the automobile cult.

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I am in the airplane and got stuck, still on the land, as the captain announces that ‘we have some software problem’. Passengers got a bit upset and some geek made a comment: “Yeah, they’re probably using OS $MS”. I laugh and start to tweet sending text message via mobile phone on this situation in the plane, from my seat. Got instant feedback tweets and DM (direct messages) from my Twitter friends (followers) who got worried :”Oh, are you ok? Are you safe? What’s going on with the software? Pls let us know when you land..” etc. One of the primer of micro-blogging phenomena, Twitter,  is useful communication tool, that enables you to have interaction with your friends and share the information in the form of short 140 chars. updates,  in a word:  ’on the run’, “always with you” social networking service. I’ve already talked/wrote about it before, and with hidden guilty become twittaddict (Twitterers will understand this passion) placing behind regular blog posts.  Twitterizing and twittaddict are (my) new lingo terms I invented as being the part of everyday twittering.One of the example how Twitter can be great/useful tool when you’re on the road, travelling, and beyond, is my Twitter friend - RoadHacker, IT specialist, massive twitterer who I met and noticed that he was ‘life casting’ from all over the USA doing his IT work and micro-blogging by creating and using video: v-tweets.  I got inspired by recent research (to be published) on Twitter, and got an idea to create para-twittering e-view, so I’ve asked him few interesting questions on Twitter in Twitter timeline and here’s the outcome.  Listen, watch and Enjoy!   [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfnpzeKoLuA] 

Thanks to SmartMobs here’s from the last night 12 min. video of CBS correspondent getting insiders information on Facebook and related issues directly from Mark Zuckerberg.

Btw, I really slept on the on a mattress on the floor. For months. How about you?

I would rather say. And 24hrs is not enough to do all you want, have to. At least, not for me. For all readers who’ve been writing to me, either via IM or via social online networks or some other micro ways – I’ve exchanged short thoughts, information as I’ve been very busy (read www-> working wild woman), and still I am, but I’m trying to sort things out as there are lot to be done, to be learnt, and eternal question: what next?

For those who wasn’t ‘here and there’ while I was micro-blogging (via Twitter, Pownce, Stumble, etc.) here’s short list of links what have had happened/happening (following blogging will go back to normal – whatever that means) :

Tractis – digital signature and another online service that do business at internet speed (here invites), didn’t started yet as I don’t know who in my network is using Tractis.

Newsweek published recent article to read on Facebook expansion. While TechDirt blames Facebook for productivity losses due to “personal surfing” at work(don’t do it). !

Also comScore published the results of a study on expansion of social networks across thee globe, revealing the data on some major social networking sites and their growth in the past 12 months. Their press release center published also that Bebo is the most visited social networking site in UK.

William Gibson was special guest at Boing Boing interview here, on new novel.

Sky is the latest edition of Google Earth. You get a 3D view of all the constellations viewable from earth, over 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies are included. Isn’t that lovely? Download here.

Read, via, on the case of science blogger - PZ Meyers, biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris, who was sued for ‘unfavorable book review’.

And amusement during hot and humid summer days, here’s hilarious video “showing what a business meeting might look like if comments were enabled”.

What next? Some of the readings on internet marketing, advertising consulting and creative design …