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February 24, 2006
Why youth 'heart' MySpace
danah boyd has posted her “crib notes” for a talk she gave at an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in February, Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace. Worth reading for everyone curious (or...(See full entry.)
August 18, 2005
Wildbit report on online social networks
Chris Nagele from Wildbit gave me a head's up about a 35-page report on social networks his company is offering for download as an Acrobat file free of charge: Social Networks Report He says My company, Wildbit, is currently working...(See full entry.)
July 30, 2005
Women are from strong, men are from weak
I'm in the Saturday morning opening session at blogher, which is about whether women should "learn to play by the rules" or "change the rules." danah boyd just got up to clarify a misstatement claiming that women don't do social...(See full entry.)
July 22, 2005
More on canned invitations
Laura Lemay just sent me a LinkedIn invitation that made me laugh out loud (or LOL), although I realize that it would only be funny to a geek: #include <linkedinsuckup.h>...(See full entry.)
July 18, 2005
Principles of social networking
The always-insightful How to Save the World blog by Dave Pollard (repeatedly misnamed in my book as "How to Change the World" for I don't know what reason - brain damage, most likely) recently published an entry abstracting seven principles...(See full entry.)
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June 29, 2005
Yahoo launches My Web 2.0 beta
My Web 2.0 looks like some kind of taglicious social search engine....(See full entry.)
June 17, 2005
GRM?
In the POM book I talk about a technology practice that I refer to as ARM, meaning "activist relationship management," modeled on the idea of CRM (customer relationship management). ARM is big business these days (see Personal Democracy Forum's coverage...(See full entry.)
May 31, 2005
Tim Bishop reviews the Berkeley CyberSalon
Hmm, seems like I could have added a pro-technology perspective to the proceedings (Geodog: A night at the Oh-So Berkeley CyberSalon): As long time readers know, I love the People's Republic of Berkeley, foibles and all, and have celebrated its...(See full entry.)
April 30, 2005
Putting people first in technology
Quoting from How to interest more girls in tech careers at Misbehaving: Jacquelynne Eccles, a University of Michigan psychologist, says that girls steer away from careers in math, science and engineering because they view them as solitary pursuits: "In order...(See full entry.)
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April 29, 2005
A year ago I couldn't even spell jernalist
Today I are one! OK, I've dabbled in journalism before, but it's been a while and it was mostly in the tech trade press. Today my first article has been published at Personal Democracy Forum, Meetup Says Put Up or...(See full entry.)
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April 8, 2005
The Well's 20th anniversary
I missed the local anniversary party and the afterparty the next day, but the first one got a decent write up in the Chronicale / SF Gate (Hippies, freethinkers and geeks mark two decades of dipping into the Well): The...(See full entry.)
March 27, 2005
Lazyweb request for peer-to-peer backup system
By jove, I think David Weinberger has spun out yet another brilliant idea in P2P backup I think I'm missing something obvious, but why can't I find a p2p backup system that lets me and a designated buddy swap storage...(See full entry.)
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March 24, 2005
danah's first impressions of Yahoo 360
As I'm not yet an influential enough influencer, I will point you to initial impression of Yahoo 360 (danah boyd)....(See full entry.)
March 17, 2005
Yahoo makes its social network aspects explicit with 360
When explaining social network services to people I often point out that Yahoo, with its profiles, groups, photo banks, and so on, is already the most popular YASN in the world. Obviously Yahoo recognizes this too and by adding a...(See full entry.)
March 15, 2005
Another Deliberative Democracy panel wiki
There's an official wiki for this panel that Kaliya is technographing on the screen, but I can't read the URL (but will post it when I get it - ah, here it is: Sx Sw Delib - NcddWiki), but there's...(See full entry.)
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March 14, 2005
choconancy on SXSW: Blogging While Black Panel
Quoting from Nancy White's excellent notes SXSW: Blogging While Black Panel below the jump...(See full entry.)
March 12, 2005
PeopleCrawling
A quicky (I'm at SXSW and am scanning my aggregator in the lull before the storm: Quoting from Peopleweb: Mark Pincus has a vision Peopleweb: Tribester Mark Pincus has a vision. It's kinda open source ad tags, only for people.Mark...(See full entry.)
March 9, 2005
Good advice for SxSWi newbies
Note to self: Don't end up in one of David's photos of oblivious digital hipsters. Quoting from The unofficial geek guide to getting over yourself at SxSW Interactive 2005 | davidnunez.com: Ditto for parking yourself in the hallway with the...(See full entry.)
March 2, 2005
Person-to-person networking as a social panacea
Quoting from Could Social Networking Save the World? Rob Paterson has penned a long and extraordinary article suggesting that social networking tools, building on a foundation of finding and connecting and relating tools including weblogs, could be used to cut...(See full entry.)
March 1, 2005
Nurturing the long tail
I'm continually impressed by the thinking and writing of Stephen Downes, who was also, I believe, the first person to perform Blogistan Pie before a live audience. In the abovelinked post, Community Blogging, Downes explored some ideas about how a...(See full entry.)
February 1, 2005
Digital care for analog person
Bridgepoint Health, a health care complex in Toronto, has http://www.bridgepointhealth.ca/wmail.asp">a web page where people can send messages to residents. Most residents don't have Internet access, but inbound webmail is printed out for them. This came to my attention because a...(See full entry.)
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January 25, 2005
Call for papers for Stanford conference on 'online deliberation'
2nd Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice / DIAC-2005: May 20 - 22, 2005 The Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice / DIAC 2005, will bring together software developers, social science researchers, and practioners of...(See full entry.)
January 18, 2005
How would you tag yourself?
The Blog Blog answers Jeff Jarvis's question ("How would you tag yourself?"): That's a tough question. So far all I can up with is watches TV, seems sort of high, A Jewish Lexington Steele, hungry, snowflake (I used to teach...(See full entry.)
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January 10, 2005
Shelley Powers on digital identity
Quoting from I, URL: My first exposure to the concept of a 'federated identity', or a digital identity or ID if you will, was when I had to obtain one of the first Microsoft Passport identities in order to access...(See full entry.)
January 4, 2005
Pew says blogs growing
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, blog readership went way up in 2004. A January report using November data says: 27% of adult U.S. Internet users read blogs (up from 17% in February). The number of blog...(See full entry.)
December 16, 2004
Susan Mernit on 43 things
Quoting from Digging 43 things: The 10 minutes I was going to spend on the 43 Things beta from robot coop turned into 45 somehow.This list-maker from a new company formed by a bunch of Amazon's personalization wizards has a...(See full entry.)
December 12, 2004
Missing the conference / not missing the conference
Although my personal life wouldn't permit yet another east coast trip at this moment (I was there in the summer and the fall and I'm headed there for the holidays as well), it sounds like the Internet 'n' society conference...(See full entry.)
November 19, 2004
Yet another must-read blog: Operating Manual for Social Tools
Looks like Corante's got another blog (Operating Manual for Social Tools) that I should be following here at POM. Where does David Weinberger find the time to contribute to so many weblogs? Also, I'm a little unclear of the overlap...(See full entry.)
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November 6, 2004
There must be 50 ways to vicariously read about Bloggercon
Dave Winer's unconference BloggerCon is having its third second annual instance this weekend at Stanford. I am mostly following it in my aggregrator: Lobbycon is always one of the best parts of any conference; hanging in the courtyard and talking...(See full entry.)
October 19, 2004
Sharing links to political ads
Larry Lessig, Aaron Swartz, and others have put together p2p-Politics as a way of enabling people to point each other to political ads online. From the site's FAQ: Does this have anything to do with p2p filesharing? It is peer-to-peer,...(See full entry.)
October 15, 2004
Syndication vs. youth culture
danah boyd, who's made a practice of studying how younger people use social media (as contrasted with how we old fogeys tend to do so), noted recently (apophenia: a culture of feeds: syndication and youth culture) that the Web 2.0...(See full entry.)
October 11, 2004
Peer-to-peer groups with Paper Airplane
I've been meaning to blog about Paper Airplane since April when I first read about it at the Nanopublishing weblog, which got it from hatch.org: Flying the Two Way Web. Technically, it's a Mozilla plug-in, but implementation details aside, what's...(See full entry.)
October 5, 2004
Web 2.0: The sequel
Jeff Jarvis is "eventblogging" the Web 2.0 conference. I'm just glad they didn't call it Bubble 2.0....(See full entry.)
September 23, 2004
Localized social-network services
Brian Dear has noticed a trend among new social network services (brianstorms weblog: Going Local): There's a lot of activity in the social-network-based local listings recommendations arena right now. Think "friendster meets epinions meets local.yahoo.com"....InsiderPages and Judy's Book are social...(See full entry.)
August 30, 2004
Webfeed tracking still lags
Topix.net comments on how general search engines still don't do a good job of keeping up to date with incremental changes (most likely by scanning webfeeds) in The Daily Internet: The kind of searches I regularly do on Feedster and...(See full entry.)
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August 27, 2004
Social networking manifesto
Here are the main heads from Stuart Henshall's Manifesto for Social Networking Required at his Unbound Spiral blog: It's my NetworkI own it.Social networks should empower people.I am my own hub.Ease data exchangeMy Blog is Better at NetworkingCreate Markets for...(See full entry.)
August 26, 2004
About twice as many people have no political views as have a coherent political belief system.
[...] Man may not be a political animal, but he is certainly a social animal. Voters do respond to the cues of commentators and campaigners, but only when they can match those cues up with the buzz of their own social group. Individual voters are not rational calculators of self-interest ...(See full entry.)
August 24, 2004
More support for tracking the living web
Om Malik reports that Technorati has taken a(nother?) round of VC funding: Om Malik on Broadband: Technorati gets fed VC dollars Over on the wiki tip, Ross Mayfield's been blogging about SocialText's successfully completed round of funding as well. Remember,...(See full entry.)
July 7, 2004
Sociology of digital communities
Eszter Hargittai at Crooked Timber reminds us that "the study of online communities is one of the oldest topics explored by academics about the social aspects of information technology use." She links to several pertinent journals and articles, and of...(See full entry.)
July 3, 2004
Social-oriented web design
In Integrated Web Design: Social Networking - The Relationship between Humans and Computers is Coming of Age, Molly Holzschlag presents an up-to-date overview of online social networking, blogs and syndication, FOAF and XFN, and geomapping. The article is exerpted from...(See full entry.)
June 14, 2004
Card's Locke
Alex Havalais points out that Orson Scott Card had a character blogging back in 1994: "I've been studying history," Peter said. "I've been learning things about patterns in human behavior. There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and...(See full entry.)
June 4, 2004
Again with the "women and blogging" meme
Two posts turned up this week about proportions of male and female bloggers and blog-readers: Joho the Blog: Girls keep out? is entirely about it, and Political Animal: The Blogosphere... mentions it in addition to things like average education level....(See full entry.)
June 3, 2004
The power of inclusivity
Mark Glazer notes that Craig Newmark often appeals to "nerd values" when explaining what makes craigslist run so well: OJR article: 'Nerd Values' Help Propel Tiny Craigslist Into Classifieds Threat. I think we are seeing a transition in the internetworked...(See full entry.)
May 31, 2004
Rules of the game, by the people, for the people
I envy Shirky his steady voice of reason. He's got a good look at user empowerment and the potential for experimenting with greater self-rule in virtual environmnets, particularly games, in his latest writing, Nomic World: By the players, for the...(See full entry.)
May 28, 2004
Nancy White's weblog
Nancy White of Full Circle Associates has started an Online Interaction & Community Blog. (via Seb at Many-to-Many)...(See full entry.)
May 27, 2004
The RSS tipping point
Doc Searls of Cluetrain (and Linux Journal) fame, reports on the growth in importance of the living part of the web: Publishing 2.0 Chad Dickerson at Infoworld says Over the past several weeks, requests for InfoWorld's Top News RSS feed...(See full entry.)
April 30, 2004
Cal panel about the Internet
I attended two panel discussions this morning at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. This is the first-ever meeting of the fellows of the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism; today and tomorrow they will continue as a conference...(See full entry.)
April 29, 2004
My dream of genie
I'm blogging this from Living With The Genie: On Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery, an exciting star-studded, deep-thinky conversation introduced by Michael Pollan, moderated by Christina Desser, co-editor of the Living with the Genie title that inspired...(See full entry.)
April 28, 2004
Cal discussions on the living web
The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism invite all to a series of panel discussions April 29-30 at UC Berkeley on how technology and the Internet are changing American society and the...(See full entry.)
April 22, 2004
Holzschlag on the living web
Molly Holzschlag has written about web design, markup, and interactive media for many years. Now she writes (Integrated Web Design: Social Networking - The Relationship between Humans and Computers is Coming of Age) about how the living web (without using that term) is connecting people in real ways: The interaction ...(See full entry.)
April 16, 2004
Everything looks like a hammer
Mary Hodder provides another reminder that it's the people, and their behaviors, that matter, not the tools they use. She's talking about blogs and journalism, but one of her analogies is: BTW, in case you're wondering, this is a blog....(See full entry.)
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April 12, 2004
Shirky in the Gothamist
Clay Shirky is interviewed in the Gothamist, and he has (as usual) the definitive insight into what this whole nanopublishing "thing" is about: [Q] Blogs: beloved little observations grouped sequentially. I'm almost afraid to ask the question but what's your...(See full entry.)
March 17, 2004
On the limits of networking
At culturekitchen, Liza Sabater notes a post by Alex Galloway and Eugene Thacker to the nettime-l mailing list called The Limits of Networking that seems to address the "echo chamber" flaw. (Not quoted due to this disclaimer from the mailing...(See full entry.)
March 12, 2004
A one-off blog for a conference
Susan Mernit set up a blog called morph specifically for participants in and commentators on the American Press Institute's Media Center's MediaMorphosis conference, (a new one.) The other day she invited a number of non-attendees via email to drop by...(See full entry.)
February 17, 2004
Lawley: "step away from the laptop"
Elizabeth Lawley blogged from eTech on how hard it is to get conference-goers to deal with each other face-to-face: [Here Pete is the author and I am the editor, MUAHAHAHHAHA, so I added this blockquote from Liz's blog, because it...(See full entry.)
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February 16, 2004
Revenge of the user
danah boyd's session/presentation from the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2004 can be found online in text form at this location: 4) Finally, how do we create architecture that will allow for regulation through social norms? This is a huge challenge!...(See full entry.)
January 5, 2004
potential anecdote re the downside of decentralizing
moveon.org gets dinged by fox and the WSJ for having a short movie on their site that compares Bush with Hitler. Could be an anecdote re the risks of decentraliziation -- they had no idea the movie was even posted,...(See full entry.)
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