Mark Glaser at PBS’s Medi­aShift blog writes about Lisa Williams’ Place­blog­ger site: Place­blog Pio­neer Sees Geo-Tagging as Key to Local Aggregation.

And here is Steve Out­ing at E&P writ­ing about Amy Gahran and Adam Glenn, whose Boul­der, Colo., cit­i­zen media project was also a Knight News Chal­lenge winner.

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New York Times: Google Pho­tos Stir a Debate Over Privacy.

For Mary Kalin-Casey, it was never about her cat.

Ms. Kalin-Casey, who man­ages an apart­ment build­ing here with her hus­band, John Casey, was a bit shaken when she tried a new fea­ture in Google’s map ser­vice called Street View. She typed in her address and the screen showed a street-level view of her build­ing. As she zoomed in, she could see Monty, her cat, sit­ting on a perch in the liv­ing room win­dow of her second-floor apartment.

“The issue that I have ulti­mately is about where you draw the line between tak­ing pub­lic pho­tos and zoom­ing in on people’s lives,” Ms. Kalin-Casey said in an inter­view Thurs­day on the front steps of the build­ing. “The next step might be see­ing books on my shelf. If the gov­ern­ment was doing this, peo­ple would be outraged.”

Her hus­band quickly added, “It’s like peeping.”

Ms. Kalin-Casey first shared her con­cerns about the ser­vice in an e-mail mes­sage to the blog Boing Boing on Wednes­day. Since then, the Web has been buzzing about the pri­vacy impli­ca­tions of Street View — with vary­ing degrees of seri­ous­ness. Sev­eral sites have been ask­ing users to sub­mit inter­est­ing images cap­tured by the Google ser­vice, which offers panoramic views of miles of streets around San Fran­cisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami and Denver.

On a Wired mag­a­zine blog, for instance, read­ers can vote on the “Best Urban Images” that oth­ers find in Street View. On Thurs­day after­noon, a pic­ture of two young women sun­bathing in their biki­nis on the Stan­ford cam­pus in Palo Alto, Calif., ranked near the top. …

“I think that this prod­uct illus­trates a ten­sion between our First Amend­ment right to doc­u­ment pub­lic spaces around us, and the pri­vacy inter­ests peo­ple have as they go about their day,” said Kevin Bankston, a staff lawyer at the Elec­tronic Fron­tier Foun­da­tion, a dig­i­tal rights group. Mr. Bankston said Google could have avoided pri­vacy con­cerns by blur­ring people’s faces.

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My old friend Jen­nie Yabroff — a for­mer Salon writer whom I worked with at Microsoft Side­walk — has a cool piece in this week’s Newsweek: Betas Rule. What do Jim from ‘The Office,’ Shrek and Al Gore have in com­mon? They’re beta males—losers who are win­ning. Look out, alpha dogs.

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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates shared the stage — con­vivially — last night at the D: All Things Dig­i­tal con­fer­ence. Who knew they were best buds? Here’s Merc writer Troy Wolverton’s on-the-scene report. Plus, from Evano at Newsvine: Jobs, Gates, and the road behind.

By the way, looks like because of DRM, you can’t watch the 8-minute Steve & Bill video from my blog above, so you have to go over to Bright­cove or to the D site to see it.

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I’ll be appear­ing on a pod­cast­ing panel this Tues­day evening in San Fran­cisco with a great bunch of peo­ple, includ­ing Leo Laporte, Emily Morse and John Fur­rier. Details:

The San Fran­cisco Pro­duc­ers Guild of Amer­ica, in con­junc­tion with BAYCAT, presents a night of social net­work­ing, edu­ca­tional enter­tain­ment and audi­ence participation.

Event: Where Does Pod­cast­ing & Hol­ly­wood Converge? 

When: Tues­day, June 5, 2007. Net­work­ing and Light Refresh­ments: 6:30–7:15 p.m, fol­lowed by panel dis­cus­sion from 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Where: BAYCAT, the Bayview Hunters Point Cen­ter for Arts & Tech­nol­ogy, 2415 Third Street, Suite 230, San Fran­cisco (near Mis­sion Bay), CA 94107

Pan­elists:

• Leo Laporte – Host and Pro­ducer, “This Week in Tech”
Leo is the host and pro­ducer of nine weekly pod­casts, includ­ing the #1 tech­nol­ogy pod­cast in the coun­try – “This Week in Tech”. 

• John Fur­rier – Founder & CEO, Podtech Net­work, a media com­pany pio­neer­ing the online video busi­ness through an inno­v­a­tive net­work of producers.   

• Emily Morse – Emily is the host and cre­ative force behind the exceed­ingly viral “Sex With Emily” show, which was picked up by CBS Radio and is now going out for syn­di­ca­tion.  She has a tele­vi­sion show in devel­op­ment with CBS.

• J.D. Lasica – Co-founder, Our­me­dia; author and social media pioneer. 

• Oscar Grimm – Oscar is pro­ducer and direc­tor of the multi-Vloggie win­ning pro­gram, “Freshtopia.net.” 

• Nick Que­sada – Nick Que­sada is a host and pro­ducer for BAYCHAT Radio.   

The  panel will be mod­er­ated by John Gilles, Prin­ci­pal, JG Dig­i­tal Media, for­mer Vice Pres­i­dent, G4TV, and Direc­tor, TechTV. 

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Here’s a two-minute video of two reps from Zvents I shot last week at the Inter­ac­tive Media Con­fer­ence in Miami.

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Terry Heaton at Media 2.0 Intel: Media com­pa­nies awaken to the Inter­net sell.

Bor­rell Asso­ciates’ fifth annual bench­mark­ing report on local web rev­enue is due out in a
few days, and it’s a shocker. We’ve obtained some intel from Gor­don
Bor­rell that we can pass along to you. There are at least two big
sto­ries here: growth of the pure­plays in tak­ing local rev­enue and an
awak­en­ing by local media com­pa­nies of a need to make pure inter­net
sales efforts. …

Despite growth in real rev­enue, news­pa­pers
have lost eight per­cent of the mar­ket share in just two years,
some­thing Bor­rell calls “huge.”

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BBC News: CBS is buy­ing London-based Last.fm
for $280 mil­lion, the largest-ever U.K. Web 2.0 acqui­si­tion. The social
net­work allows its 15 mil­lion users to con­nect with other lis­ten­ers
with sim­i­lar music tastes, to custom-build their own radio sta­tions and
to watch music video clips. Thanks to IWant­Media for the pointer.

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Here’s the video from CNN on YouTube about a so-called honor killing — a young woman in Iraq whose death by ston­ing was cap­tured by cell phones ear­lier this month. Her crime was falling in love with a boy from another sect. You have to log in to see it.

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