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Pinboard - antisocial bookmarking
I've moved what social bookmarking I do over to Pinboard. Tchau, del.icio.us.
folksonomy  web2.0  whatever  from delicious
july 2009 by McChris
Mashable: Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source
I think I may move to the Ma.gnolia platform for my social bookmarks and quick posts to terrorintheheartland.com. My username over there is McChris if you want to find me.
opensource  Web2.0  socialsoftware  folksonomy 
august 2008 by McChris
Anarchogeek: The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities
One of the founders of Indymedia claims "we won" because Web 2.0 sites now offer the self-publishing abilities that Indymedia promised.
Web2.0  socialsoftware  indymedia 
july 2008 by McChris
globeandmail.com: I killed Tim Russert (on Wikipedia)
A Canadian journalist discusses why Wikipedia contributors might be motivated to "scoop" each other.
wikipedia  Web2.0  news 
june 2008 by McChris
NYTimes: The Wiki-Way to the Nomination
I missed this article from last week that uses wiki publishing as a metaphor for much of the cultural production surrounding the Obama campaign.
wiki  Web2.0  politics2.0  elections 
june 2008 by McChris
The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It
Jonathan Zittrain's new book on Internet law and policy is available online with a Creative-Commons license. This site presents the book in an interesting hypertext format that allows readers to comment on specific passages.
CreativeCommons  telecom  Web2.0  publicpolicy 
may 2008 by McChris
User Labor: A framework for sustaining user labor across the web
"With User Labor, we propose an open data structure, User Labor Markup Language (ULML), to outline the metrics of user participation in social web services."
labor  Web2.0  metadata 
may 2008 by McChris
O'Reilly Radar: Amazon Gets Demanding with Print-on-Demand Publishers
"Amazon has effectively told publishers that if they wish to sell POD books on Amazon, they must use Amazon as the POD printer. Small/self publishers are unsurprisingly feeling bullied."
publishing  amazon  distribution  Web2.0 
march 2008 by McChris
Rough Type: Social networking goes to war
Sweet sassy molassy, the DoD has implemented a Web 2.0 site that encourages soldiers to upload and share multimedia from the field as a way of sharing information.
military  war  Web2.0  whoa 
february 2008 by McChris
Slate: Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy
In this article, Chris Wilson argues that collaborative sites like Digg and WIkipedia aren't as democratic as one might think because they rely on elite groups of users for much of the decision-making.
Web2.0  wikipedia  production  bubbler 
february 2008 by McChris
Wired Campus: A Professor's Tips for Using Twitter in the Classroom
"Mr. Parry’s first instinct was that Twittering would just encourage students to speak in sound bites and self-obsess. But then he gave it a try, and he now sees Twitter as a useful classroom-communication tool. "
Twitter  education  Web2.0  socialsoftware 
january 2008 by McChris
ReadWriteWeb: Social Bookmarking Faceoff Reloaded
This article provides an overview of major social bookmarking systems and their relative market position.
del.icio.us  folksonomy  Web2.0 
january 2008 by McChris
Reputation: where the personal and the participatory meet up
Andy Oram discusses the social implications of participatory Web projects.
Web2.0  reputation  economics  to:read 
december 2007 by McChris
InformationWeek: How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook
Cory Doctorow argues that YASNS go through boom-and-bust cycles as people you don't like find you on the services and try to add you as a friend.
facebook  yasns  Web2.0  privacy 
november 2007 by McChris
Ben Brown describes the failure of a point-based system on Consumating
He says, "Even though points on Consumating were redeemable for absolutely nothing, not even a gold star, our members had an unquenchable desire for them," but I wish he would describe some of the user behaviors the system encouraged.
socialsoftware  reputation  Web2.0 
october 2007 by McChris
Anne Truitt Zelenka: Weak Ties for Social Problem Solving in Enterprise 2.0
The author suggests Mark Granovetter's notion of "weak ties" might be useful in thinking about how social software can leverage extra-organizational contacts for problem solving. It's worth noting the original piece focused on job searches.
socialsoftware  Web2.0  orgcomm 
october 2007 by McChris
Trebor Scholz: The Web 2.0 Ideology
"The Web 2.0 Ideology is a marketing tool that falsely reframes the steady evolution of the Web as a sudden explosion, a big bang of techno-social components that were then collected under the conceptual umbrella of the newly created brand."
Web2.0  academic  branding  ideology 
october 2007 by McChris
Trebor Scholz: A History of the Social Web
"This is a cross-cultural history of social life on the Internet. It captures technical, cultural, and political events that influenced the evolution of computer-assisted person-to-person communication via the net."
academic  history  Web2.0  production  to:read 
september 2007 by McChris
del.icio.us: delicious is four today
Wow, it seemed like the service was that old by the time I started using it.
del.icio.us  anniversary  Web2.0 
september 2007 by McChris
Dan Gilmor: It’s Your Stuff? Maybe Not
"the bigger issue is... whether the photos, text, videos, financial information and other things you put online are yours, or whether they end up belonging, in practice if not principle, to the company you use to store and/or display them.
labor  Web2.0  google  ethics 
september 2007 by McChris
iA Notebook: Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0
I'm not sure what methodology this map uses, but it's an interesting representation of various Web strategies.
visualization  Web2.0  map  hype 
july 2007 by McChris
My heart’s in Accra: The connection between cute cats and web censorship
Ethan Zuckerman discusses how Web 2.0 services like Flickr could be used as a Trojan Horse for delivering activist information.
Web2.0  activism  Twitter  Flickr  YouTube 
july 2007 by McChris
Invite Share
This Web 2.0 site creates a forum where users can share invitations to private betas on Web 2.0 sites.
Web2.0 
july 2007 by McChris
Video Toolbox: 150+ Online Video Tools and Resources
I haven't had a close look at this page, but I imagine it could be a useful resource down the road.
list  TVontheWeb  Web2.0  linkbait 
june 2007 by McChris
O'Reilly Radar: Facebook in the Mail
According to server logs, six percent of UC Berkeley email comes from Facebook. It's wild to see Facebook blow up the way it has in the past few months.
visualization  email  education  Web2.0  yasns 
june 2007 by McChris
'Folksonomy' tops most irritating list
I do wonder how many respondents had heard the term "folksonomy" before the survey.
survey  language  Web2.0  folksonomy 
june 2007 by McChris
Bokardo: The Opaque Value Problem (or, Why do people use Twitter?)
I haven't heard of the Opaque Value Problem before, but it's a good way to describe how something as seemingly vapid as Twitter can be meaningful for some users.
Web2.0  design  Twitter 
june 2007 by McChris
Iminlikewithyou and Game Design in the Web at kev/null
ILWY has quite an engaging interface, and this post discusses the transaction costs that make the dating site interesting.
design  economics  Web2.0 
june 2007 by McChris
NYTimes: The High Price of Creating Free Ads
As agencies cook up user-generated content strategies, "companies have found that inviting consumers to create their advertising is often more stressful, costly and time-consuming than just rolling up their sleeves and doing the work themselves."
Web2.0  UGC  advertising 
may 2007 by McChris
MediaShift: What Are You Doing? Doing More Than Just Twittering Our Lives Away
Check out the comments about Twitter farms at the bottom.
blog  Web2.0  Twitter 
may 2007 by McChris
User Generated Content Is About Efficiency And Growth, Not Exploitation
TechDirt uses the example of NYC's MetroNorth online lost-and-found system to argue that with Web 2.0, everyone comes out ahead. But when businesses use UGC, does everyone come out ahead equally?
NYC  transportation  Web2.0  UGC 
may 2007 by McChris
xkcd: Map of Online Communities
I'm really behind the curve posting this, but it was a hit in one of my presentations last week.
awesome  map  yasns  Web2.0 
may 2007 by McChris
Growth of Twitter vs. Blogger
Jason Kottke graphs the number of messages between Blogger and Twitter early in their growth, and concludes that Twitter's growth far surpasses Blogger's. I'm not sure this is an apples-to-apples comparison.
blog  Web2.0  Twitter 
may 2007 by McChris
Rough Type: The YouTube elite
YouTube has announced it will begin compensating a handful of top contributors. Nick Carr argues that the injection of cash into the YouTube will change the dynamics of the site, away from a commons model.
UGC  economics  Web2.0  YouTube 
may 2007 by McChris
fortuitous
Matt Haughey's new blog has business information for Webby freelancers and entrepreneurs. I dig the fixed-gradient thing at the bottom.
blog  business  Web2.0 
may 2007 by McChris
Sony To Launch YouTube Competitor in Japan
The new service, available only in Japan, will allow users to put contributions under Creative-Commons licenses, while watching out for copyright infringement.
TVontheWeb  copyright  CreativeCommons  Web2.0  YouTube 
april 2007 by McChris
5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne
This interview reveals some of the new features Twitter may have in store, but also that the service is struggling to keep up with its growth.
interview  chat  Web2.0  Twitter 
april 2007 by McChris
NewTeeVee: Joost: It’s The Metadata, Stupid!
Using FOAF-style metadataa for collaborative filtering and social network could make Joost the dominant online TV platform.
metadata  Web2.0  TVontheWeb 
april 2007 by McChris
O'Reilly Radar: The Future of Web 2.0
I am a total nerd for laughing at this, but I'm linking to it anyway.
humor  standards  Web2.0 
march 2007 by McChris
GNE Museum
Screenshots of The Game Neverending, the predecessor to Flickr reveal the initial design plans of the social software service. I never played GNE, but when I started using Flickr in 2003, it was weird.
information_design  Flickr  history  Web2.0 
march 2007 by McChris
Valleywag: Web 2.0 buzz
Valleywag has created a chart of mainstream media mentions of Web 2.0 as extracted from Nexis and suggests that the buzzword is peaking.
hype  news  buzzword  Web2.0 
march 2007 by McChris
Comic: 2.0 2.0
heh.
humor  comics  Web2.0 
march 2007 by McChris
SpotScout Inc. - Parking the Mobile Generation™
This online marketplace for information about parking spots raises ethical issues of how commons are shared.
transportation  NYC  ethics  Web2.0 
march 2007 by McChris
thoughts on twitter
Liz Lawley shares her fascination with Twitter, and I agree that the most compelling part of the app is the cross-chatter between users, and how it both reveals and conceals social networks.
yasns  chat  Web2.0  Twitter 
march 2007 by McChris
The Devil's Dictionary: True definitions of "vlog" and other terms
Following the lead of Ambrose Bierce, this list explains what Web 2.0 buzzwords really mean.
humor  buzzword  linkbait  Web2.0 
march 2007 by McChris
Comeeko - Creating comic strips from your photos
This service allows users to create comic strips online.
comics  Web2.0  yasns 
february 2007 by McChris
Citizendium: building a better Wikipedia
Ars Technica explains the mode of production on Larry Sanger's rival to Wikipedia.
wiki  wikipedia  production  Web2.0 
february 2007 by McChris
Eyeteeth: Campaign 2.0: Obama's Social Network
Interesting design critique of barackobama.com argues that the site is free of Web 2.0 design cliches. Are you kidding? His logo has multiple gradients and strays too close to goatse territory.
politics2.0  Web2.0  design 
february 2007 by McChris
Time: Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free
Justin Fox examines the relationship between peer producers and the sites that profit from them.
Web2.0  opensource  production  labor 
february 2007 by McChris
Wikipedia's Wales: Damn the advertising, full speed ahead!
Jason Calcanis is encouraging Wikipedia to add advertising to meet operational costs.
wikipedia  advertising  Web2.0 
february 2007 by McChris
Iconfactory: Twitterrific
I'm not sure the world needs a standalone Twitter client, but here it is.
Web2.0  OSX  chat  Twitter 
february 2007 by McChris
Valleywag: Yahoo Photos shutting down, Flickr triumphant?
Flickr seemed to be endangered when Yahoo! announced it's re-org, but now it looks like Yahoo! Photos will be consolidated into Flickr.
Flickr  business  Web2.0 
february 2007 by McChris
My.BarackObama.com
The presidential contender has added a social networking feature to his campaign site. I'm not sure people want to fill out another profile and forget their password.
yasns  politics  Web2.0  politics2.0 
february 2007 by McChris
Useless Account
Boiling down Web 2.0 to its most salient components, this has to be the ultimate Web 2.0 site. I'd invite all my friends, but it doesn't offer that feature.
Web2.0  satire  useless  awesome 
february 2007 by McChris
Media @ LSE: Dangerously overstating the significance of Web 2.0
David Brake provides an important critique of the Web 2.0 video burning up the netwaves.
Web2.0  audience  media_studies 
february 2007 by McChris
YouTube: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
This video describing Web 2.0 by an anthropology professor at Kansas State is formally interesting, but I'd quibble with some technical details and worry it's a bit too utopian.
Web2.0  video  utopianism 
february 2007 by McChris
Pew Internet: Tagging
"A December 2006 survey has found that 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts." I do think the Pew project operationalizes categories way too broadly.
folksonomy  Web2.0  metadata 
february 2007 by McChris
Wikipedia (A)
Harvard Business School case study on Wikipedia
wikipedia  business  wiki  Web2.0 
february 2007 by McChris
10 Zen Monkeys: Jimmy Wales Will Destroy Google
RU Sirius interviews Jimmy Wales.
interview  wikipedia  Web2.0 
january 2007 by McChris
phonophilia | The Love of Sounds
Steev Hise has relaunched his site devoted to sharing field recordings.
audio  music  Web2.0  neato 
january 2007 by McChris
Yummy Yummy Yummy I've got Tags in my Tummy
"Eats your del.icio.us tags and spits out a tasty timeline."
del.icio.us  folksonomy  visualization  Web2.0 
january 2007 by McChris
CTheory.net: The Political Economy of Peer Production
Web2.0  p2p  production  labor  academic  politicaleconomy 
january 2007 by McChris
Reuters: User-generated Content Good for Old Media
"Traditional media companies are ideally placed to benefit from the explosion of user-generated content and should see it as an opportunity and not a threat even though the potential revenue is limited, a report says."
Web2.0  UGC  media  business 
january 2007 by McChris
Web 2.0 Most Cited Wikipedia Entry of the Year
And with that, teh Internets collapsed in on itself.
Web2.0  wikipedia 
january 2007 by McChris
Feed Store: Web 2.OH, YEAAHH!!
I think I may need this shirt before people start accusing me of "drinking the Kool-Aid."
Web2.0  clothing  humor 
january 2007 by McChris
kuler
Adobe's new online color picker has Digg-like crowdsourcing features. You can create a palette for other users to vote on. I'm not crazy about the UI, however.
color  design  Web2.0  Adobe 
january 2007 by McChris
Me, ‘Person of the Year’? No thanks
Siva Vaidhyanathan responds to Time's choice of "you" as person of the year.
Web2.0  media 
december 2006 by McChris
Media Threat
This NY Press story suggests Web 2.0 projects will replace the professional media. I thought blogs were going to do that.
Web2.0  wiki  blog 
december 2006 by McChris
Nick Carr: Sharecropping the long tail
I was going to blog a longer response to this, but this will have to do for now.
Web2.0  economics  attention  labor 
december 2006 by McChris
Web 2.0 how-to design style guide
This is kind of interesting, but the center column flows over in my browser.
webdesign  Web2.0  reference 
december 2006 by McChris
Sharing of research links on mailing lists versus social bookmarking in Del.icio.us
"Descriptions of bookmarks in Del.icio.us become for some practitioners outlets to address the readers in a network-- they are clearly written with the reader in mind." Trebor Scholz says.
del.icio.us  Web2.0  privacy 
december 2006 by McChris
Are Sites Like Digg, YouTube And MySpace Still Exploitation If People Get What They Want?
This is a good question, but I do think that users are often ignorant of the tradeoffs they make by uploading UGC or sharing personal information.
Web2.0  yasns  myspace  YouTube 
december 2006 by McChris
Atomiq: Taxonomy of tagging systems
folksonomy  Web2.0  design 
december 2006 by McChris
.net magazine: Caterina Fake
In this interview, the Flickr co-founder discusses her strategy for building an online community.
Flickr  interview  Web2.0  design  business 
december 2006 by McChris
Dan Gillmor: The Demise of the Professional Photojournalist
I'm really struck by how pervasive cameras are these days. It seems like a third of people at a protest or a party are taking photographs. Gillmor suggests that the profusion of cameras will erode the professional role of photogs.
journalism  photography  JFK  Web2.0 
december 2006 by McChris
del.icio.us will eat itself
del.icio.us  humor  Web2.0  folksonomy 
november 2006 by McChris
Valleywag: User-generated content embarrasses Michael Arrington
While giving a talk on "User Generated Content" the TechCrunch founder pulled up a Twitter page about his talk. The founder of Flickr said on the page, "Every time I hear "UGC", a little part of me -- and everything I've ever believed in -- dies."
humor  Web2.0  Flickr  UGC  Twitter 
november 2006 by McChris
Bedbug Registry - Find Infested Hotels and Apartments
A registry for bedbug-ridden buildings/
Web2.0  bedbugs 
november 2006 by McChris
Infothought: Wikipedia, and the difficulties of criticizing digital-sharecropping
Seth Finkelstein contrasts the opportunities for exploiting unpaid labor in Web 2.0 projects and the communalist discourses that surround Wikipedia.
wikipedia  Web2.0  production 
november 2006 by McChris
Thoughts around "Social by Design"...
Tom Coates offers a retort to the notion inspired by MySpace that design doesn't influence the success of online social software.
myspace  yasns  design  Web2.0 
november 2006 by McChris
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