from the Unlike Us conference at the Institute of Network Culture http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unlikeus/2012/03/12/pitfalls-of-building-social-media-alternatives-debate/#more-1675 An interesting discussion of social networking and the difficulties of creating sites that are private and non propriatary. In San Francisco there was discussion of building an alternative internet-- this debate brings up some of the problems. Also there was: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unlikeus/2012/03/10/eleanor-saitta-networks-and-nation-states/#more-1461 and http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unlikeus/2012/03/12/frederik-zuiderveen-borgesius-on-online-audience-buying/ xx dd -- http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.org