Tonight’s Social Media Club meeting is at PR Newswire - thanks to those folks for hosting. Thanks to Steve Eisenberg, Laurence Koret and Jeff Keefer for getting this meeting organized.

John Havens is talking about the Transparency Manifesto. John is working with Shel Holtz on this project as well.

He has just retold the story of what happened when he invited Scoble to Podcamp and a tempest ensued (because someone posted this incident out of context and without asking for clarity.) Scoble had to respond, etc. All finally worked out well, and of course Scoble wasn’t asking to be paid, he was really gracious and ultimately awesome as usual.

He’s also talking about another issue we had when we (Disclosure: I was on the Podcamp NYC team so I say “we” as part of the team) had some issues with the New School.

Additional discussion on the challenges between transparency and when sharing all the information can hurt someone or some organization.

Paul Young who had started the “Anti-Astroturfing” campaign is here - talked about this campaign and why it was tough to get people to join - it is tough to get consensus on what astroturf is and what the manifesto was for them.

Discussion about interviews, attribution, and how and who gets credit when one contributes to this kind of manifesto.

What’s happening with Social Media in Wireless Industry.

People are using Dodgeball, Mercora, Twitter, Jaiku, Treemo, Pownce, Selfish, Yelp.

Paul from Australia notes that things like Twitter don’t work in Australia because of text pricing plans, but everyone messages each other directly like crazy.

Noting that the carriers are the major barrier to innovation typically - many services are designed to “get around” what the carriers do and let you do functionality like streaming video ( example of MyWaves that was in the WSJ today.

Toby Daniel askes what are devices going to be used for? Video is interesting, but SMS is popular in Europe because it’s straightforward, useful, etc. How Mobile will embrace simplistic and straightforward stuff, including geo-located messages, like letting me know that friends are near.

Ruth: do we really need to focus on Video? Judgement or value statement but that doesn’t need to be the only focus.

Howard: We’re already there - everyone on commuting trains, etc, are using devices (and sometimes I wish they’d shut up and watch videos or do texting, etc.)

Kids won’t pay for content discussion - will people pay for content. More discussion about Ad-supported vs pay for content model. I am having trouble typing as I’m also participating. Hopefully people will comment on this.

Laptop battery on fumes…no plug. Good night New York.

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