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. David Weinberger has been documenting – and I believe you can follow along with a live webcast on the SCS 2007 site. Justin.tv was also here, and it was more than a little surreal to be able to watch the room I was in on his shoulder-cam.
In other news, I wanted to pass along special congratulations to the editors and writers of techPresident. Yesterday, it was announced that techPresident was the winner of the 2007 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. A special note of congrats goes to Josh Levy and Micah Sifry, who have worked together to create the go-to source for tech coverage of the 2008 campaign. I’m proud to be associated with them. Kudos!
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Fred Stutzman is a doctoral student, researcher and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. He studies how people use social media.
