As someone who has started or run a few web projects, I’m used to the complaining blogger. And because of that, I try to stay away from being the complaining blogger. But I think that Twitter is about to drive me crazy with information overload, and I think I know how to solve [...]
Over on techPresident, I’ve written a post about the social filter, in response to an article in the NYT that caught my attention. My post is about how we’ve created a new media in the spaces between us in social media. It was fun to think about and write – check it out [...]
Over the past few days, I’ve been discussing the problems of multiple contexts in social software. While I am primarily covering this problem in the context of Facebook, this is a problem that affects all social software. I’m actually feeling this problem most acutely with Twitter these days.
When we use social software, [...]
Sometime last semester, when I had obviously lost my better senses, I agreed to create a new course for Fall 2008. Well, the course is now on the books, so I thought I might post the description here:
INLS 490-151, Fall 2008
Computer Mediated Communication
The web is a place of communication, interaction and relational management. [...]
In yesterday’s post about Facebook’s new privacy system, I discussed the concept of “community health” in online social networks. This is a topic I’ve thought about for some time, and explored in my essay The Vibrancy of Online Social Space. What is a healthy, vibrant online social network? How does one build [...]
This morning, Facebook introduced some fairly significant updates to their privacy controls. Documented in this Facebook blog post, the changes are:
Facebook has rolled out a consistent privacy interface, which allows access to shared elements based on access-control lists (i.e. work network, school network)
These access-control lists (ACL’s) have been expanded to include ad-hoc groups of [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been organizing my citations in preparation for proposal writing. I’m really terrible at the citation-management process; I just let pdf’s pile up in folders on my desktop, putting them into a citation manager every few months. The reason I put this off is the process is so [...]
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