As the situation in Myanmar rapidly devolves into violence, I see just how much I rely on citizen journalism. At times, it is the immediacy of the situation that leads me to citizen journalism (canonical example: Tsunami), other times it is reporting angle. The case of Burma presents an interesting, compelling argument [...]
A few weeks ago, I came across an accepted manuscript in the Journal of Public Economics entitled The Old Boy (and Girl) Network: Social Network Formation on University Campuses (subscription req’d). Excerpted abstract follows:
This paper documents the structure and composition of social networks on university campuses and investigates the processes that lead to their [...]
Today marks the second day of the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium – I’m here with Alice, Alla, Cliff, danah and a bunch of other fascinating academics and practitioners…many thanks to Liz Lawley for bringing us together. In the sessions, we’ve been talking about identity, presence, youth culture, deviance and a host of other topics. [...]
A few days ago, I came across WikiDashboard, a tool that lets you visualize temporal change patterns in Wikipedia. I wrote about it at techPresident, but I wanted to expand a little on why I think the tool is so interesting. So first a little about the tool; Developed by the Augemented Social [...]
I’ve written this essay for a forthcoming volume on activism in Web 2.0 technologies and I’d like to open it up for critique and suggestion. This is a rough draft and I’ve got some time before my deadline – thanks for your help!
There is something essentially placeful about online social networks; as I log [...]
This post from Fred Wilson touched a nerve this morning. In it, he points to Dick Costolo who Twitters “Thinking that i don’t like the term ’social graph’” and Fred goes on to ask “Why can’t Facebook people call it a social network?” I’ll pile on and agree that this term irks me [...]
The blogosphere is abuzz with news of public Facebook profiles, but what gives? This is old news. In June I wrote about the topic:
Sometime in the past few weeks, Facebook began exposing profiles to be indexed by Google (A search today returns over 350,000 profiles). Granted, profiles are still private, but how will [...]
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