Friday Un-Phun Links Roundup (No Floozies!)

Hi folks -- just a few links to some blog articles from the past few days. These are not "Friday Phun" kind of links, but they might be useful or interesting if you are boring and overthink blogging (like me):

• From USA Today: The article has a "Well, duh" headline, but "What you say online could haunt you" is a nice little roundup piece of the issues around revealing too much information on blogs and the Web. Of course, our favorite youth-blogging whipping boys MySpace and Facebook are prominently featured.
  
  It's got a bit of generational snark ("Many adults wonder how a generation that is otherwise so savvy about the Internet can also be so naïve about its own privacy."), but it's not a bad read.
  
  
• From News.com: Any article with a lede of "Dog poop girl is infamous in South Korea," demands further investigation. It's a Reuters piece entitled "S. Korea aims to cool Internet rage attacks", about how South Korea is trying to balance free expression online with the potential for defamation and internet-enabled witch hunts and/or online mob vigilanteism.
  
  South Korea is the "most wired country in the world", so what they're dealing with now, we may be seeing more of soon in the U.S.
  
  
• If you want to check in on how companies and PR folks are trying to wrap their heads around blogs and social media, the Washington Post had a live chat with influential PR blogger Steve Rubell.
  
  In the chat, he addresses Word of Mouth Marketing, how to get companies to blog the "right" way, and his thoughts on the recent Wal-Mart blog astroturfing controversy ("Astroturfing" is when companies or PR folks try to get their word out in a way that looks like a spontaneous grassroots campaign)
  
  
• An AP story entitled, "Visual remixes on the Web: Are mashups art or theft?" (link via Fark), is another nice little roundup/think piece on some of the copyright vs. fair use issues around mashup (or remix) culture.
  
  An example of a remix that you may have seen was the recutting of scenes from the horror classic The Shining into the trailer for a romantic comedy.
  
  I've blogged about Remix Culture before -- now, as then, I don't have any answers.
  
  
• And, of course, you should check in on the progress of The Boondocks's Grandpa as he attempts to make connections on MySpace.  How's he doing?
  
  Huey: Still no floozies?
  Grandpa: No floozies!

In other news, I will get the new Guest Editor's Picks up a little later this afternoon.

Thanks -- Joe