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Posts from May 2008

Reminder: Personal Democracy Forum 2008

I wanted to remind you that my great friends over at techPresident and the Personal Democracy Forum will be putting on the Personal Democracy Forum 2008, on June 23 and 24 2008. I’m totally bummed that I’m not able to attend, but the folks over at PDF have told me they’ll offer discounts to [...]


Imagined Identity: Envisioning the Future of Social Networks

This past weekend, I was in Los Angeles to attend the wonderful HASTAC conference. Highlights included Howard Rheingold’s keynote, Curtis Wong’s discussion of the World Wide Telescope, and Bill Tomlinson’s demo on human-mediated networking. I was asked to join a panel entitled Trends in TechnoTravels/TeleMobility, so I thought I’d share what I spoke [...]


New Manuscript: Integrating Web 2.0 Technologies in the Instructional Process

For the past two semesters, I’ve taught a course on Online Social Networks at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science. It has been a great experience, and I’ve had an incredible bunch of students. This course has also been an experiment, both in subject matter and instructional technologies. Using Facebook, Del.icio.us, [...]


Twitter, Imagined Identity and Flux

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, and thanks to Techcrunch, I’ve finally got my excuse. TC describes a scheme for making Twitter “portable”, with a goal of solving the service’s technical problems. According to the post, if you glue enough “standards” together, a Twitter-killing Phoenix just might rise from [...]