RSS

robertogreco + facebook   337

Some teens aren't liking Facebook as much as older users - latimes.com
"For these youngsters the social networking giant's novelty has worn off. They are checking out new mobile apps, hanging out on Tumblr and Twitter, and sending plain-old text messages from their phones."
via:kissane  parents  adolescents  teens  blogging  texting  trends  socialnetworks  socialnetworking  2012  tumblr  twitter  facebook  from delicious
yesterday by robertogreco
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
"Flickr is still very valuable. It has a massive database of geotagged, Creative Commons- and Getty-licensed, subject-tagged photos. But sadly, Yahoo's steady march of incompetence doesn't bode well for making use of these valuable properties. If the Internet really were a series of tubes, Yahoo would be the leaking sewage pipe, covering everything it comes in contact with in watered-down shit.

Flickr's last best hope is that Yahoo realizes its value and decides to spin it off for a few bucks before both drop down into a final death spiral. But even if that happens, Flickr has a long road ahead of it to relevance. People don't tend to come back to homes they've already abandoned."
instagram  facebook  2012  mathonan  photography  yahoo  flickr  from delicious
16 days ago by robertogreco
Pinboard and, like, THE FUTURE · tealtan · Storify
storify  workflow  nvalt  search  indexing  facebook  naming  Calibre  FOSS  findings  notetaking  data  bookmarklets  readmill  instapaper  readability  future  comments  erinkissane  halhildebrand  caseygollan  robinsloan  jeffreymacintyre  ethanresnick  justincharles  maxfenton  allentan  annotation  socialbookmarking  bookmarking  pinboard  reading.am  from delicious
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
Webstock '12: danah boyd - Culture of Fear + Attention Economy = ?!?! on Vimeo
"We live in a culture of fear. Fear feeds on attention and attention is captured by fear. Social media has complicated our relationship with attention and the rise of the attention economy highlights the challenges of dealing with this scarce resource. But what does this mean for the culture of fear? How are the technologies that we design to bring the world together being used to create new divisions? In this talk, danah will explore what happens at the intersection of the culture of fear and the attention economy."

[See also: http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/2012/SXSW2012.html ]
networkculture  control  arabspring  politics  policy  power  jaronlanier  stewartbrand  johnperrybarlow  legal  law  internetbubbles  regulation  webstock  webstock12  data  safety  onlinesafety  children  facebook  society  socialnorms  networks  fearmongering  visibility  behavior  sharing  transparency  cyberbullying  bullying  information  advertising  infooverload  panic  moralpanics  unknown  perceptionofrisk  perception  neurosis  internet  online  parenting  riskassessment  risk  cultureoffear  2012  attentioneconomy  attention  technology  responsibility  culture  fear  socialmedia  danahboyd  from delicious
9 weeks ago by robertogreco
Think about Facebook: An angry reverie on software on Env
"Here’s what I’m sick of. When I talk to people about applied philosophy of technology, they get apologetic. Hardware techs feel guilty for liking to go on hikes without electronics. Crunchy folk feel guilty for using e-mail instead of postcards. It throws me, as if they’re confessing to victimless sins of omission in cults they’ve only heard of. Where is it written that we should take cameras on hikes or that postcards are necessarily better? For goodness’ sake, it’s our culture. If it chafes, let it out. If it drags, take it in. If it has loose threads, cut them off or tie them up or learn to like them – but quit apologizing and take some responsibility for your needs and tastes. Make, own, and remake your approach to technology."

"Software is written by people, for people. Sometimes it really sucks. But it’s our suck. We make it, we own it, and we can remake it. This means me, and this means you."
ownership  making  responsibility  via:tealtan  2010  humanism  software  skeuomorph  skiamorphs  ipad  hypercard  philosophy  culture  facebook  charlieloyd  2012  from delicious
9 weeks ago by robertogreco
One Time in a Card House with Stephanie Morgan… - Let’s Make Mistakes - Mule Radio Syndicate
"Stephanie Morgan, game producer to the game stars, stops in to chat with Mike and Katie about hot spots, self-flagellation, and not about casino buffets. When they have a few minutes, they discuss "gamification" in it's most meaningful as well as its most useless forms. Stephanie shares her past as a professional card player and some deep analysis of gameplay. This show rocks. As a bonus, Katie doesn't actually throw up in this episode, but Mike tries his hardest to instigate."

“I think twitter is a really interesting example of a very tightly honed game play loop.” [As pointed out here: http://twitter.com/litherland/status/182277474724491264 ]
analytics  facebook  zynga  engagement  badges  incentives  feedback  gamedesign  feedbackloops  katiegillum  mikemonteiro  gameplay  gaming  games  twitter  gamification  stephaniemorgan  from delicious
10 weeks ago by robertogreco
Online community ethics | Harold Jarche
"Are you on Facebook? Who isn’t these days? Here’s a question about using Facebook as an extension of work or classroom learning. Is it ethical to force people (over whom you have some power & authority) to use Facebook, a proprietary platform that tracks users & sells their data to third parties?

I ask this question to organizational community managers, teachers, professors and even companies. For example, if I want to interact with our national public broadcaster, it seems the preferred venue is “The Facebook”. Last December I put my Facebook account into hibernation (you cannot actually delete your Facebook profile). Since then, I have had many offers to join groups or engage in communities on the platform, all assuming that, of course, I use Facebook."
proprietarysolutions  ownership  dataownership  open  openweb  ibooks  jaronlanier  teaching  edtech  2012  walledgardens  howardjarche  facebook  online  from delicious
12 weeks ago by robertogreco
Caterina Fake: Fast Growth for a Social App Is a Very Bad Thing - Liz Gannes - Social - AllThingsD
"Fake added emphatically that the worst thing a start-up social network can do is to buy advertising to attract users. Growth should happen because users find value in a site, and then get their friends to join, she said.

And if users don’t come? Start-ups should try harder to make a better product.

That’s why Pinwheel plans to only slowly let in the tens of thousands of people on its email list, Fake said. And it’s why Pinwheel will ask users to write original notes, rather than filling the many empty places on its map with existing location-based content from around the Web. “We’re not going to suddenly metastasize by adding Wikipedia content,” Fake said."

[See also the correction Caterina Fake makes in the comments.]
myspace  linkedin  facebook  twitter  google+  flickr  startups  growth  scaling  scale  2012  pinwheel  storytelling  caterinafake  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Klynt
"Edit Rich Narratives
*Mixed Media Editing: Texts, images, audios, videos and hyperlinks
*Multiple Interactive Layers: Manage unlimited story nodes
*Visual Storyboard: Edit your storyboard like a mind map

Connect Your Story To The Web
*Mash-up Ready: Mix YouTube videos and FlickR images
*Facebook & Twitter Friendly: Share your favorite sequences on social networks
*Custom Maps: Geolocalize your content

Publish Anywhere
*Quick Publishing: Automatically export your final edit
*Embedable Anywhere: Show your program on any webpage
*Tablet and Mobile Device Compatible: iOS player available this Spring"

[See this project example "Journey to the End of Coal": http://www.honkytonk.fr/index.php/webdoc/ ]
[Related: http://nofilmschool.com/2012/02/advice-creating-transmedia-documentary/ ]
[See also Bear 71: http://bear71.nfb.ca ]
klynt  remixing  dailymotion  youtube  flickr  onlinetoolkit  twitter  facebook  geolocation  mapping  maps  storyboards  hypertext  audio  text  vimeo  cyoa  interactivedocumentary  webdoc  media  software  journalism  video  interactive  tools  multimedia  fiction  if  interactivefiction  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Claire Warwick's Blog: Inaugural lecture
"One of the great assets of the digital, and what it encourages and enables is multiple voices entering into a dialogue and creating new knowledge out of conversation and discussion."

"I was lucky enough to be taught by some of the greatest international authorities yet it was never assumed that their voice in the conversation was necessarily more important than mine. Far more important than who was talking was the quality of thought expressed and the nature of knowledge that emerged from the dialogue, and I think that's quite right."

"DH is…a collaborative field. We have to learn to work together and understand the different languages that are spoken by different partners in the dialogue: geeks, humanities scholars, information professionals, technical support people & indeed the public. In that sense, therefore, the voice of the DH scholar is of use as an interpreter between different languages & cultures. But interpreters cannot, but the nature of their job, exist in isolation."
information  mediadiversity  communication  diversity  complexity  email  affordances  gender  curating  curations  digitaldiversity  publicengagement  blogging  blogs  mentorships  mentoring  community  collaboration  socialmedia  facebook  twitter  socialization  media  context  understanding  meaningmaking  meaning  makingmeaning  hierarchy  dialogue  dialog  knowledge  lectures  2012  digital  discussion  conversation  learning  digitalhumanities  ethnography  education  teaching  academia  clairewarwick  _2012  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Audio Archives | Douglas Coupland & William Gibson | Key West Literary Seminar
"…Coupland leads Gibson through a discussion on culture, technology, & the craft of writing. “What makes us human,” Gibson says, “is our ability to recognize patterns, & to externalize forms of synthetic memory that preserve those recognized patterns.” The internet & its attendant communications technologies, Gibson argues, are a natural evolution of this synthetic memory, the current iteration of the cave painting human ancestors used to record their activities. These technologies function as a “global instantaneous memory prosthesis” & aspire to a transparency of experience whereby distinctions btwn the “virtual” & “real” are thoroughly dissolved. “We are already the borg,” Gibson says.

…Coupland & Gibson address cultural phenomena including Whole Foods grocery chain & Levi’s jeans, & thinkers including Marshall McLuhan & Jaron Lanier. They also explain why Facebook is like a mall & Twitter is like the street, & ask whether life is best understood as a story or as a spreadsheet."
levis  wholefoods  jaronlanier  marshallmcluhan  web  internet  memoryprosthesis  memory  patternrecognition  human  communication  tolisten  writing  technology  cyberspace  douglascoupland  facebook  twitter  2012  williamgibson  beatles  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
New Rules: Writing Well In The 21st Century | A.T. | Cleveland [via: http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/16364252528/there-have-been-three-major-changes-to-21st ]
"…three major changes to 21st century writing: (1) writing is more informal, or “looser”…; (2) writing is more voice-driven, more personal (you can get a sense of what the people above are like by reading their tweets & Facebook posts, and (3) writing is more audience-specific. The tweets & Facebook replies above were composed as part of a conversation with a person or specific group of people…All were written to me particularly (and they knew when they wrote them that I am a professor of writing and a writer interested in new technologies. Their responses may have been different if the question was asked, say, by their children). And, as @jbj and @wynkenhimself show, sometimes one reply to me leads to a new conversation between two other people.

It can be hard to know how to engage in this type of writing. You might feel a bit lost and unsure of the tropes of twitter, say. But chances are, you are more comfortable with writing than you were 10 years ago. Why? Because you do it more."
english  communication  howwewrite  conversation  informality  informal  practice  web  socialmedia  twitter  facebook  writing  via:lukeneff  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Les Petites Échos, The Kids Are All Right// The Meaning is the...
"In the end, the film worked for the same reasons any piece of art works: it was very well made. The handheld shots and playful editing seamlessly accompanied the whimsical pop navigations of Girl Talk’s music; the movie built up a slow, compelling love triangle between Marsen and the two nameless male dancers as they drifted through the urban landscape, meeting and parting, meeting and parting. This gave me hope: craft still matters. Despite the evening’s hispterish veneer, despite all of its Web 2.0 trappings, a piece of art must still stand on its own. An audience will still respond to quality and shun mediocrity."
reiflarsen  kickstarter  film  art  glvo  making  generations  socialnetworking  mashups  meaning  facebook  millennials  communication  sharing  inbetweeness  girltalk  girlwalk  annemarsen  2011  audience  craft  quality  mediocrity  happiness  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Why the Facebook Group My Students Created for Themselves is Better than the Discussion Forum I Created for Them. « Douchy’s Weblog
"While at first, the control-freak in me wanted to send them all back to the “official class discussion forum”,  The advantages of the Facebook group have become increasingly compelling and I’m wondering whether it’s time to let the forum I created go the way of cassette tapes and typewriters.  Why is a Facebook group better? For one thing, Facebook is a digital home for many students.  So a group based there is comfortable to them – it’s on their virtual turf. Because of this, the Facebook group is even more of a desire path than my discussion forum is.

Some other advantages of the Facebook group over the discussion board I created are: …"
facebook  teaching  interaction  learning  collaboration  students  2011  ict  lms  studentcentered  discussion  forums  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
#Occupy: The Tech at the Heart of the Movement - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
"This essay inaugurates a series of stories on the ways that protesters have shaped technologies to fit their needs -- and how technologies opened up new space for their messages.

Let's start with what seems self-evident, but what I'm sure is more complex than it appears: Occupy is different from the protests that preceded it. To be honest, I'm not sure anyone can explain why. The list of factors contributing to its outstanding run is long: economic circumstances, a distance from the enforced patriotism that followed 9/11, disappointment on the left with Obama's presidency, the failure to adequately regulate banks, the neverending foreclosure crisis, the Adbusters provenance, severe cuts to social programs at the state and local level, the language of occupation, and the prolonged nature of the engagement.

But among those factors, technology plays a central role…"
ows  occupywallstreet  technology  2011  alexismadrigal  habitsofmind  twitter  socialmedia  facebook  protests  organization  networks  socialnetworks  socialnetworking  corporatism  news  communication  coordination  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Warren Ellis » Tomorrow’s World: The Near Future Of Pop
"Not that my sixteen year old daughter knows anything about that. The thing about an early-stage networked culture where everything is available on demand means that you have to know about it to demand it. It’s why companies like last.fm, and most social networks, have always put “music discovery” towards the top of their priorities. They know that common culture has been fractured by the internet and the remains bought and paid for by scum. But my daughter has a t-shirt that reads OF COURSE I’M NOT ON FUCKING FACEBOOK. She uses YouTube playlists, and her friends’ tastes, and even music magazines, and plots her own course through pop.

And she doesn’t know, or care to be told, what her favourite pop bands owe to the Pixies or Bowie or Velvet Underground. Atemporality means nothing to her. This is hers, and that’s how it should be. And pop, in relation to the wreckage of mainstream media, has gone underground, and perhaps that’s how it should be too. Underground and everywhere, at the speed of light."
warrenellis  music  spacetime  whosonfirst  popculture  atemporality  nearfuture  adolescence  film  youtube  facebook  socialnetworking  socialnetworks  via:straup  2011  last.fm  discovery 
november 2011 by robertogreco
The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog) [Too much to quote, chose parts of the conclusion]
"The funny thing is, no one's really hiding the secret of how to make awesome online communities. Give people something cool to do and a way to talk to each other, moderate a little bit, and your job is done. Games like Eve Online or WoW have developed entire economies on top of what's basically a message board…

My hope is that whatever replaces Facebook and Google+ will look equally inevitable, and that our kids will think we were complete rubes for ever having thrown a sheep or clicked a +1 button. It's just a matter of waiting things out, and leaving ourselves enough freedom to find some interesting, organic, and human ways to bring our social lives online."

[Related: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/evil-social-networks.html ]
socialgraph  maciejceglowski  pinboard  social  technology  relationships  design  marketing  facebook  google+  google  advertising  compuserve  prodigy  aol  walledgardens  web  online  2011  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Evil social networks - Charlie's Diary
"So the ideal social network (from an investor's point of view) is one that presents itself as being free-to-use, is highly addictive, uses you as bait to trap your friends, tracks you everywhere you go on the internet, sells your personal information to the highest bidder, and is impossible to opt out of. Sounds like a cross between your friendly neighbourhood heroin pusher, Amway, and a really creepy stalker, doesn't it?"

[Related: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/ ]
privacy  klout  socialnetworking  socialnetworks  facebook  google+  socialmedia  twitter  2011  advertising  uk  law  internet  web  online  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Concurring Opinions » Parents Facilitating Facebook Use for the Under 13 Set: The False Promise of Minimum Age Requirements
"What does all of this tell us?   Rather than providing parents and children with grater options for controlling the use of youth personal information, COPPA has actually encouraged the adoption of formal limits on children’s access to online services.  Those limits are rather meaningless, though.  As the authors explain, parents are “taking matters into their own hands to circumvent the restrictions . . . at the cost of their children’s privacy and at the risk of acting unethically and potentially in violation of the law.”"
COPPA  privacy  socialmedia  parenting  children  tcsnmy  facebook  law  online  internet  daniellecitron  danahboyd  eszterhargittai  jasonschultz  research  johnpalfrey  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
boyd: Why parents help their children lie to Facebook abou their age: Unintended consequences of the 'Children's Online Privacy Protection Act'
"Facebook, like many communication services and social media sites, uses its Terms of Service (ToS) to forbid children under the age of 13 from creating an account. Such prohibitions are not uncommon in response to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which seeks to empower parents by requiring commercial Web site operators to obtain parental consent before collecting data from children under 13. Given economic costs, social concerns, and technical issues, most general–purpose sites opt to restrict underage access through their ToS. Yet in spite of such restrictions, research suggests that millions of underage users circumvent this rule and sign up for accounts on Facebook…many parents know that their underage children are on Facebook in violation of the site’s restrictions and that they are often complicit in helping their children join the site…COPPA inadvertently undermines parents’ ability to make choices and protect their children’s data."
danahboyd  eszterhargittai  jasonschultz  johnpalfrey  facebook  parenting  online  socialmedia  internet  privacy  socialnetworking  coppa  children  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Station: The UnFacebook World
"Dark = Facebook
Yellow = No Facebook

This is a mashup of two world maps: NASA's earth at night and Facebook's friendship map. By subtracting one from the other, we get an image the shows only cities that don't use Facebook."
facebook  visualization  earth  nasa  maps  mapping  unfacebook  2011  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
The Life-Changing $20 Rightward-Facing Cow
"And it was a quiet discipline; his work was appreciated in academia, media and even in philanthropy, but often considered "ivory tower"-–not necessarily a complimentary term-–by the mainstream design community and the big profiteers. Then came the Gamification movement, the shiny new idea that if people were assigned goals and extrinsic "rewards," they'd be more motivated to engage with tasks-–and brands-–than they would have otherwise been.

Bogost's years of research and writing on how games could affect perspective and behavior prized design wisdom and a deep understanding of context and of other media. Yet suddenly there was an explosion of investment in gamification startups eager to tack game mechanics onto things like check-in apps. The intersection of games and real life was suddenly a very trendy thing, and a new legion of spokespeople emerged to simplify, systematize and mass-market it."
cowclicker  ianbogost  leighalexander  2011  videogames  zynga  games  kotaku  culture  tragic  facebook  gamification  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
Hello Etsy Berlin - Douglas Rushkoff on Etsy - Livestream
"Everybody thinks that because they can blog, they should blog."

"Why do I want to scale? The only reason to scale is to get out of the business I'm in."

"What would you rather do? Would you rather do something or would you rather manage people who are doing that thing?"

"perverse corporate capitalism of the 1990's, the Jack Welch, General Electric, Harvard Business School model, which is get out of any productive industry and become more and more like a bank"

"What Jack Welch realized is that Marx was right…whoever is creating the actual value through their labor is the slave"

"what you want to do is get as far away from those guys as possible and get as close to the bank funding that activity as possible."
douglasrushkoff  economics  p2p  work  labor  2011  etsy  currency  slavery  jobs  corporatism  history  banking  finance  digital  exchange  internet  peertopeer  capitalism  karlmarx  meansofexchange  hierarchy  localcurrency  biases  doing  making  facebook  social  advertising  jackwelch  ge  generalelectric  sharing  scale  scaling  growth  business  entrepreneurship  self-employment  creativity  management  middlemanagement  middlemen  addedvalue  localcurrencies  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
The Never-Ending Story | design mind [via http://twitter.com/frogdesign/status/105785778331852800 via @bobulate]
Harris: "I think that’s something stories can do—prepare their way of finding meaning in this madness and bringing some order to the chaos.<br />
<br />
…creating a space that’s more about slowing down and contemplating and being introspective is a prerequisite for getting people to tell stories that have impact.<br />
<br />
…Cow Bird is basically a storytelling platform that people can use to tell stories online using photos, sound maps, timelines, videos, and casts of characters. It’s geared towards long-form narrative…when many different people tell stories, the system automatically finds connections between them and weaves them together into a kind of meta-story…The platform automatically analyzes all the text in your memory, figures out your cast of characters, and connects it to previous stories.<br />
<br />
…one of the pieces of this system I’ve been building is that to tell the story you have to dedicate it to somebody, which creates a gift economy of stories."
design  art  writing  storytelling  jonathanharris  cowbird  slow  slowness  multimedia  thisishuge  gamechanging  2011  interviews  classideas  curating  curation  twitter  facebook  longform  meaning  meaningmaking  meaningfulness  self-expression  internet  web  stories  social  socialsoftware  metastory  relationships  connectivism  narrative  memory  memories  soundscapes  soundmaps  timelines  video  gifteconomy  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
What Jaron Lanier Thinks of Technology Now : The New Yorker
"…part of what Lanier finds most regrettable about Facebook…is precisely what makes it so appealing to most people. “We use technology this way all the time,” Andy van Dam, a professor of computer science at Brown, notes. “To create a layer of insulation. We send an e-mail so we don’t have to call someone on the phone. Or we call someone so we don’t have to go over to their house.” Many of us also use technology, he might have added, when we’re too isolated: when someone wants to find a new friend just because he’s feeling alone…"<br />
<br />
"Perversely, the opacity of Lanier’s critique may account for some of its popularity. Because his pronouncements tend to be oracularly vague, readers can interpret them to reflect their own views—from the classicist who deplores pop music to the vaguely disaffected Web designer, or the concerned parent who finds his children consumed by social media. The fact that Lanier is a genuine technology pioneer only adds to his authority."
technology  internet  future  jaronlanier  2011  philosophy  social  facebook  socialnetworking  society  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Wicked (1) - Charlie's Diary
"…our biggest challenges are no longer technological. They are issues of communication, coordination, & cooperation. These are, for the most part, well-studied problems that are not wicked. The methodologies that solve them need to be scaled up from the small-group settings where they currently work well, & injected into the DNA of our society…They then can be used to tackle the wicked problems.<br />
What we need…is a Facebook for collaborative decision-making: an app built to compensate for the most egregious cognitive biases & behaviours that derail us when we get together to think in groups. Decision-support, stakeholder analysis, bias filtering, collaborative scratch-pads &, most importantly, mechanisms to extract commitments to action from those that use these tools. I have zero interest in yet another open-source copy of a commercial application or yet another Tetris game for Android. But a Wikipedia's worth of work on this stuff could transform the world."
technology  politics  psychology  philosophy  public  problemsolving  wicketproblems  society  facebook  google+  decisionmaking  collaboration  communication  coordination  cooperation  gamechanging  karlschroeder  charliestross  wikipedia  transformation  worldchanging  2011  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
A Case for Pseudonyms | Electronic Frontier Foundation
"There are myriad reasons why individuals may wish to use a name other than the one they were born with. They may be concerned about threats to their lives or livelihoods, or they may risk political or economic retribution. They may wish to prevent discrimination or they may use a name that’s easier to pronounce or spell in a given culture."
pseudonyms  google  google+  facebook  identity  eff  anonymity  web  internet  2011  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Who is harmed by a "Real Names" policy? - Geek Feminism Wiki
"This page lists groups of people who may be disadvantaged by any policy which bans Pseudonymity and requires so-called "Real names" (more properly, legal names).<br />
This is an attempt to create a comprehensive list of groups of people who are affected by such policies."
socialmedia  google  google+  facebook  pseudonyms  internet  identity  via:sahelidatta  2011  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
elearnspace › Losing interest in social media: there is no there there
"This view – deep, contextualized awareness of complex interrelated entities (the hallmark of a a progressive or advancing society) – is strikingly antagonistic to the shallow platitudes and self-serving “look at me!” activities of social media gurus whose obsession is self-advancement. At best, they have become the reality TV/Fox News version of social commentary: lots of hype, lots of attention, void of substance, and, at best, damaging to the cause they purport to advance."
socialmedia  blogging  elearning  connectivism  georgesiemens  fatigue  facebook  google+  stockandflow  2011  twitter  substance  jeffjarvis  hashtags  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Caterina.net» Blog Archive » Anonymity and Pseudonyms in Social Software
"Pseudonyms are not in themselves harmful. Yes, they can be used for harm, as when people use them for anonymous, slanderous attacks, trolling, etc., but in the vast majority of cases there is no harm done. Importantly, they can serve to protect vulnerable groups. There’s even a comprehensive list of people harmed by Real Names policies. In the cases where pseudonyms are being abused, it is the harm that should be stopped, not the pseudonyms. To my mind there are three categories of Pseudonymous behavior, and they should be treated differently: AKA or “Also Known As” … Pseudonym … Trolls … “Real identities” have real benefits to users — creating communities of trust, silencing trolls, people standing by their words. Nothing can destroy a happy social space faster than allowing the trolls to go unchecked…Pseudonyms, which provide so many benefits to the first two categories, should not be banned because of the third."
community  socialnetworking  identity  facebook  privacy  google+  pseudonyms  caterinafake  2011  trolls  steganography  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Multiliteracies and Designing Learning Futures | DMLcentral
"I want to outline a few ideas about how I see literacy expanding today. These are initial thoughts and I hope we can engage in collective development around what you may think as well. There are three developments in literacy that are under-recognized in classrooms, in policy, and in empirical learning theory research:<br />
<br />
1. Search, Query, and Interpretation<br />
<br />
2. Conscious identity development<br />
<br />
3. Online/Offline Hybridity and Spatial Interaction"
anterogarcia  multiliteracies  literacy  literacies  beyondtext  socialmedia  search  query  interpretation  identity  identitydevelopment  consciousidentitydevelopment  offline  online  2011  spatialinteraction  facebook  google  mmorpg  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Can We Ever Digitally Organize Our Friends? « kev/null
"We’re incredibly adept at knowing the right situations to include the right people. They’re not black or white rules and depend heavily on context: is it a party, who else is there, do they know any of the other people, have you talked recently, etc. Unfortunately, this skill and these implicit social rules we know are not easily translated.<br />
<br />
Maintenance<br />
…Sociologist Gerald Molenhorst has shown that we change half of our social network every seven years but there isn’t a Changing of the Guard ceremony here. It’s not entirely clear at what point Mike moved from one group to another.<br />
<br />
Thus, maintaining digital groups has two problems. First, you don’t know when to move someone from one group to another because transitions happen gradually. Second, it’s simply a lot of effort to maintain. How often would you update the entire list? And if it’s not updated, how useful are the groupings, really?"<br />
[via: http://log.scifihifi.com/post/7724790329 ]
google  socialnetworking  facebook  organization  google+  relationships  circles  change  fluidity  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
The Coming Cloud Wars: Google+ vs Microsoft (plus Facebook) | Epicenter | Wired.com
"Right now, it’s easy to share links, pictures, location and videos on Google+. Soon, it’ll be equally easy to share maps, office documents, news and shopping deals.<br />
That’s where things really get interesting — particularly if Google can turn its identity system into the kind of purchasing system that Apple and Amazon have, pairing it with its advertising power and ever-present mobile phones to create a virtual mobile wallet.<br />
If Silicon Valley were hosting a basketball tournament for consumer money and mindshare in the cloud, right now we’d be looking at a Final Four of Google, Apple (plus Twitter), Microsoft (plus Facebook) and Amazon (especially if they can make a compelling tablet). Apple just had its earnings call; Microsoft’s is tomorrow.<br />
The stakes are high, the players are ready. It’s a fun time to be a fan."
timcarmody  google+  google  amazon  apple  facebook  microsoft  skype  twitter  social  cloud  cloudcomputing  identity  sharing  notification  communication  bing  search  spotify  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings? -- Daily Intel [Don't rely on the quotes here. Read the whole thing.]
"…should be a word for that feeling you get when an older person…shames himself by telling young people how to live…

Obviously, the Epiphinator will need to slim down in order to thrive, but a careful study of history shows how impossible it is to determine whether it can return to both power & glory, or whether its demise is imminent…

This moment of anxiety and fear will pass; future generations (there's now one every 3-4 years) will have no idea what they missed, & yet they will go on, marry, divorce, & own pets.

They may even work in journalism, not in the old dusty career paths…

We'll still need professionals to organize the events of the world into narratives, & our story-craving brains will still need the narrative hooks, the cold opens, the dramatic climaxes, & that all-important "■" to help us make sense of the great glut of recent history that is dumped over us every morning. No matter what comes along streams, feeds, & walls, we will still have need of an ending."
technology  media  socialmedia  facebook  privacy  paulford  narrative  jonathanfranzen  zadiesmith  billkeller  zeyneptufekci  life  wisdom  journalism  storytelling  endings  epiphinator  love  living  stevejobs  commencementspeeches  wholeearthcatalog  stewartbrand  aaronsorkin  2011  nuance  feral  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Woods+ (Ftrain.com)
"Anyway, the new thing from the Gootch makes it really easy to sort people into the holes, which is good, because this lets you divide people into clusters and lie to each group in different ways, which makes it easier to preserve the fictions that make up our polite racist society. And it looks pretty sweet and works well so far, which probably means that there will be a huge battle-in-earnest between the Gootch and the Books, between Circles and Friends. For example, I don't know if you saw this but according to the New York Times Mark Zuckerberg is taking walks in the woods with people he'd like to hire. If he really wants you to work for him he takes you for a walk in the woods. It's gotten that serious. And this is a responsibility of a well-educated American, to think about Mark Zuckerberg taking walks in the woods with multiple unnamed sources."
paulford  ftrain  facebook  google  google+  markzuckerberg  mostdangerousgame  hiring  2011  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Mule Design Studio’s Blog: Density and Difference
Putting screenshots of Google+ and Twitter next to each other you’ll notice two things.…One…more density on the Twitter side…<br />
<br />
Secondly, take a look at how each service shows you the difference between things. In twitter’s ordered world there’s a basic unit of measurement: a tweet. Highly restrictive by nature. The differences are easy to spot. Some have links, some are retweets, faves, etc. But because the basic unit itself is so uniform, the stream is incredibly easy to scan, even read. The differences between each unit are things you catch out of the corner of your eye.<br />
<br />
Google+, on the other hand, wants you to know that these objects are different types. It’s all about leading with the differences, rather than creating a scannable, understandable whole. It’s function over form. Cognitively, I have to figure out what type of object it is before I can read it."
design  social  twitter  google  facebook  google+  2011  density  scanning  interface  interfacedesign  reading  difference  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
This is just the beginning – Are you thinking inside out?
"Google+ is both trying to replicate offline social network structures (w/ circles) & build social network structures that are unique to online world (w/ following, & w/ fact that anyone can add anyone to a circle, independent of whether these people have met offline). Is this the best approach? No-one knows…<br />
<br />
…science…most of our behavior is driven by non-conscious brain, not by conscious brain…refutes much of our understanding of how the world works. When we meet people, for first time, or for ten thousandth time, there are far too many signals for the conscious brain to take in, analyze, and compute what to do. So our non-conscious brain does the analysis for us, & delivers a feeling, which determines how we react and how we behave. It’s our non-conscious brain that will be deciding which social network succeeds & which one fails. It’s going to take most, if not all, of our lifetime to figure out what is happening in the non-conscious brain. This is just the beginning."
psychology  socialnetworking  google+  facebook  relationships  pauladams  via:preoccupations  online  socialsoftware  socialnetworks  brain  science  consciousawareness  subconscious  gutfeelings  feelings  instinct  2011  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
rep.licants.org, a virtual prosthesis for the online introvert - we make money not art
"rep.licants.org allows people to install a bot on their Facebook and/or Twitter account. The bot will combine the activity the user is already having on other channels such as youtube or flickr with a set of keywords selected by the user to attempt and simulate that person's activity, feeding their account with more frequent updates, engaging in discussions with other users and adding new people to their list of contacts."
wmmna  bots  rep.licants.org  socialmedia  introverts  facebook  flickr  twitter  wikileaks  mobile  matthieucherubini  automation  ai  turing  2011  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Now, we make projects « Re-educate Seattle
"we don’t live in a factory economy anymore. There’s no such thing as “set it & forget it.” The pace of change in the digital age is too rapid, & the competition too relentless. You’d think that Facebook, w/ it’s hundreds of millions of users, would be able to sit back & simply let the profits come rolling in. But it recently recruited the CEO of Netflix to its Board of Directors because it knows that it’s not 2009 anymore. Times have changed since then.

We don’t go to work in factories anymore. Now, we work on projects. Sometimes those projects last 3 months, or they might last 9 years. These projects typically involve either solving a specific problem or, if you’re doing truly innovative work, identifying a problem before it becomes a problem & being the first to market with a solution. The have a beginning, middle, & end. When the project is finished—remember, there’s no specific timetable for how long any given project will take—then it’s time to get busy on the next one."
projects  projectbasedlearning  education  tcsnmy  toshare  sethgodin  stevemiranda  learning  factoryschools  unschooling  deschooling  facebook  making  doing  self-directedlearning  problemsolving  criticalthinking  2011  thisiswhatwedo  howwework  howwelearn  pscs  pugetsoundcommunityschool  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
ifttt
"ifttt puts the internet to work for you by creating tasks that fit this simple structure:<br />
<br />
ifthisthenthat<br />
Think of all the things you could do if you were able to define any task as: when something happens (this) then do something else (that).<br />
<br />
The (this) part of a task is called a Trigger (). Some example triggers are "if I'm tagged in a photo on Facebook" or "if I tweet on twitter." <br />
<br />
The (that) part of a task is called an action (). Some example actions are "then send me a text message" or "then create a status message on Facebook."<br />
<br />
Triggers and Actions come from Channels. Channels are the unique services and devices you use everyday, activated specifically for you. Some example channels:"
ifttt  internet  web  social  management  tools  tasks  automation  twitter  facebook  del.icio.us  email  phones  weather  onlinetoolkit  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Parent-child relationships in the Facebook, cellphone and Skype era - latimes.com [Related article here: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/12/home/la-hm-parent-anxiety-20110312 ]
"…not so long ago parents drove a teenager to campus, said tearful goodbye & returned home to wait week or so for phone call from dorm. Mom or Dad, in turn, might write letters…<br />
<br />
But going to college these days means never having to say goodbye, thanks to near-saturation of cellphones, email, instant messaging, texting, Facebook and Skype. Researchers are looking at how new technology may be delaying the point at which college-bound students truly become independent from their parents, & how phenomena such as the introduction of unlimited calling plans have changed the nature of parent-child relationships, & not always for the better."<br />
<br />
[Anyone looking into comparisons w/ countries where university students mostly live at home? This isn't new to them. There's something to be said about maintaining strong family ties. Many implications here regarding depression, over-emphasis of the individual, etc. Helicopter parents exist for reasons other than technology.] 
families  parenting  connectivity  helicopterparents  trends  universities  colleges  adulthood  society  sherryturkle  adolescence  cellphones  mobile  phones  communication  skype  texting  im  facebook  solitude  barbarahofer  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Create Flash Games with Stencyl
"Welcome to StencylWorks, 2D game creation done right. StencylWorks isn't your average game creation software; it's a gorgeous, intuitive toolset that integrates seamlessly with the Stencyl ecosystem.<br />
Exclusive collaboration and sharing features will have you making Flash games in a flash. For free."
games  software  tools  online  design  gamedesign  scratch  glvo  edg  srg  classideas  tcsnmy  coding  gaming  diy  stencyl  kongregate  facebook  mac  osx  windows  flash  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" | Video on TED.com
"As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy."
elipariser  echochambers  serendipity  internet  online  web  media  relevance  search  google  facebook  filterbubbles  exposure  2011  ted  via:jessebrand  politics  crosspollination  dialogue  walledgardens  algorithms  censorship  personalization  advertising  yahoonews  huffingtonpost  nytimes  washingtonpost  impulse  aspirationalselves  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Caring for your online introvert
"Fellow introvert Joanne McNeil on Jonathan Rauch's classic article on introverts and what introversion might mean on the internet.<br />
"Social media drains me like a large party might. I just deactivated Facebook. And I don't @ much on Twitter. Too often it feels like the "fog of [an extrovert's] 98-percent-content-free talk," as Rauch put it.""<br />
<br />
[The post contains a broken link…will need to hunt down an archive.]
psychology  introversion  introverts  kottke  2010  joannemcneil  online  facebook  twitter  socialnetworking  web  relationships  internet  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Tom Hume: Common lies of social software
"I've been mentally collecting "lies of social software"…So far I've come up with these, mainly based on my experiences w/ blogging, Flickr, Twitter & Facebook:

"Your friends are equally important". Dunbar pointed out that we have concentric circles of friends: 5 close ones, 15 acquaintances, 50 rough friends, etc. Yet in my friends lists on Twitter & Facebook, everyone's equal (& usually alphabetical). I like what Path have done around limiting size of your network, & Flickr concept of Family, Friends & Contacts - but what about software for just you & those 5 of your closest? Or for you and your other half?

"Your friends are arranged into discrete groups", w/ a corollary that these groups rarely change…

"You can manage hundreds of friends"…

"Friendship is reciprocal & equal". Some people are more important to me than I am to them, & vice versa; we might not like to face up to this in every day life but it's true nonetheless, & our digital tools don't reflect this…"
socialsoftware  via:preoccupations  dunbar  dunbarnumber  twitter  facebook  flickr  path  blogs  blogging  relationships  nuance  socialnetworking  socialmedia  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Learning Through Digital Media
"This publication is the product of a collaboration that started in the fall of 2010 when a total of eighty New School faculty, librarians, students, and staff came together to think about teaching and learning with digital media. These conversations, leading up to the MobilityShifts Summit, inspired this collection of essays, which was rigorously peer-reviewed.<br />
The Open Peer Review process took place on MediaCommons, [1] an all-electronic scholarly publishing network focused on the field of Media Studies developed in partnership with the Institute for the Future of the Book and the NYU Libraries. We received 155 comments by dozens of reviewers. The authors started the review process by reflecting on each other’s texts, followed by invited scholars, and finally, an intensive social media campaign helped to solicit commentary from the public at large."
education  technology  teaching  media  pedagogy  tcsnmy  lcproject  digitalmedia  learning  edtech  socialmedia  rtreborscholz  mobilityshifts  newschool  mobile  phones  mobilelearning  tumblr  youtube  cellphones  facebook  twitter  blogs  blogging  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
The Vulture Transcript: Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a Mall,’ and Much More -- Vulture
[via: http://twitter.com/ballardian/status/60530562850492416]
twitter  williamgibson  interviews  2010  sciencefiction  scifi  facebook  zerohistory  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Our full interview with William Gibson | Reading | Independent Weekly [via: via: http://twitter.com/ballardian/status/60530562850492416 ]
"MySpace & Facebook just looked overstructured & Disneylanded…<br />
When a friend of mine joined Twitter, I thought, "Oh, this sounds dreadful,"…join[ed] it for a laugh, so I could make fun of it later. To my great surprise, I found it nicely understructured. & very fast…<br />
I also find it effortless—that may be because the way I use it is largely content-free, but it's actually been a very nice experience. I would miss it if it disappeared; I would miss the company of people I've gotten used to having around in a virtual way.<br />
What I'd miss most about Twitter is its astonishing power as an aggregator of novelty. It does in a few hours what one hundred professionally produced magazines could scarcely do in a month, skimming the world's weirdest, most wonderful things & depositing it on your desktop to be snacked on.<br />
<br />
Having boasted for years at watching less television than any NA male my age, I may unfortunately have found my television."
twitter  williamgibson  interviews  2010  zerohistory  sciencefiction  scifi  facebook  myspace  aggregator  television  tv  unstructured  novelty  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
prosthetic knowledge: Photosynth app out for iOS
"Just tried this photo panorama app out on the iPod Touch. Its free, and can take photos from all angles in a good interface, although the output is limited - quality is not as good as some of the other panorama apps out there. Also, images can be sent to Facebook, Photosynth or Bing Maps.<br />
<br />
Worth checking out, but far from perfect."<br />
<br />
[See also: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/photosynth_for_ios_build_panorama_images_integrate.php ]
photosynth  ios  iphone  applications  microsoft  images  photography  maps  mapping  bing  bingmaps  facebook  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Subtraction.com: Commented Out
"I think what’s really happening is a simple matter of divided attention: there are much more absorbing content experiences than independent blogs out there right now: not just Tumblr, but Twitter and Facebook and all sorts of social media, too, obviously, and they’re drawing the attention that the ‘old’ blogs once commanded. Moreover, these social networks allow people to talk directly to one another rather than in the more random method that commenting on a blog post allows; why wouldn’t you prefer to carry on a one-on-one conversation with a friend rather than hoping someone reads a comment you’ve added to a blog post, number 59 out of 159?"
blogging  community  khoivinh  web  online  blogs  2011  twitter  facebook  civility  communication  follow-up  conversation  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Less Is More: Using Social Media to Inspire Concise Writing - NYTimes.com
"How can online media like Twitter posts, Facebook status updates and text messages be harnessed to inspire and guide concise writing? In this lesson, students read, respond to and write brief fiction and nonfiction stories, and reflect on the benefits and drawbacks of “writing short.”"<br />
<br />
[Related: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/opinion/20selsberg.html AND http://www.pdscompasspoint.com/?p=4466 ]
writing  literature  twitter  facebook  brevity  classideas  fiction  stories  storytelling  socialmedia  summary  texting  constraints  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com » TEDxObserver talk on kids and privacy
"Here's a video of my talk on kids, privacy and social media ("A Skinner box that trains you to under-value your privacy: how do we make kids care about online privacy?") at last month's TEDxObserver event in London. It was a great day and there were a ton of interesting talks (the set is here)."
corydoctorow  youth  teens  privacy  cyberoptimism  parenting  teaching  technology  socialmedia  safety  facebook  tedxobserver  socialnetworking  bfskinner  psychology  tcsnmy  toshare  classideas  todiscuss  behavior  2011  anonymity  social  freedom  networkeducation  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs | Onion News Network
"The CIA's invention of Facebook has saved the government millions of dollars."
facebook  cia  socialmedia  video  twitter  humor  theonion  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Everyday for iPhone
"Take a picture of yourself. Every day. Set reminders. Get into the habit. The more pictures you have, the better your Everyday app will be. <br />
<br />
Line up your face with an adjustable grid or use an overlay of the last picture you took.<br />
<br />
Publish to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or Flickr. Or have it upload automatically. <br />
<br />
Make a movie. You'd be surprised how great the effect of a time lapse video of your face can be. Watch yourself change, just like a real person."<br />
<br />
[via: http://lonelysandwich.com/post/4005075829/everyday-for-iphone ]
iphone  daily  everyday  photography  noahkalina  adamlisagor  oliverwhite  williamwilkinson  applications  ios  timelapse  time  aging  change  video  facebook  twitter  tumblr  flickr  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
The Ghetto Called Facebook | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com
"Facebook is an enclosed, controlled, and manipulated environment for meek, tech losers. It's like a reality TV show—things are kind of real, but they're not."
johndvorak  facebook  aol  socialsoftware  socialnetworking  socialmedia  internet  web  online  2011  closedsystems  markzuckerberg  trainingwheels  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Flickr vs. Facebook | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"The one on the left is a conversation."
flcikr  facebook  conversation  interface  ux  ui  socialmedia  mikemonteiro  2010  commenting  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Lament for the iGeneration | torontolife.com
"When I started teaching at Ryerson three years ago, I was 28—barely older than my students. Like them, I’m attached to my cellphone, laptop and Facebook account. So why is teaching in the digital age such a nightmare?"
teaching  via:jeeves  mobile  phones  laptops  facebook  attention  tcsnmy  learning  highereducation  highered  disconnect  generations  technology  online  web  internet  ubiquitouswebconnections  society  schools  education  twitter  universities  colleges  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Via NFC: Japanese Social Network Mixi First To Let Users “Share” Real-World Items
"Mixi Real Check is potentially more interesting: this function allows users not only to share websites with friends but any object in the real world that has an NFC tag attached to it. Tapping or waving the phone near NFC stickers found on i.e. books or posters is enough to share the information on Mixi, in real-time. This could be anything from further information on the products to details on promotion campaigns a brand wants to run on Mixi.<br />
<br />
Bringing social functionalities to the real world is a great idea for a social network, but there are two downsides at this point: Mixi users interested in these new functions must own a Nexus S (the only Android device with the necessary hardware for NFC so far) and have Taglet (a special NFC app for Android) installed. The Nexus S isn’t even officially available in Japan currently, which means almost all Mixi users still must wait for the future."
nfc  mobile  android  facebook  geo  location  mixi  japan  socialnetworking  objects  socialobjects  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - Dougald Hine: Third Places, Web 2.0 and First Life
thirdplaces  dougaldhine  reallyfreeschool  agitpropproject  education  unschooling  deschooling  place  sociology  books  reading  community  life  secondlife  web2.0  sociability  social  online  internet  web  mobile  phones  firstlife  immersive  facebook  information  twitter  learning  connectivism  connectedness  homes  socialemotional  families  nuclearfamily  antisocial  relationships  intimacy  vinaygupta  scarcity  consumerism  postconsumerism  abundance  redundancy  sustainability  meaning  yearoff  poverty  the2837university  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
BBC - Newsnight: Paul Mason: Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere
"18. People have a better understanding of power. The activists have read their Chomsky and their Hardt-Negri, but the ideas therein have become mimetic: young people believe the issues are no longer class and economics but simply power: they are clever to the point of expertise in knowing how to mess up hierarchies and see the various 'revolutions' in their own lives as part of an 'exodus' from oppression, not - as previous generations did - as a 'diversion into the personal'. While Foucault could tell Gilles Deleuze: 'We had to wait until the nineteenth century before we began to understand the nature of exploitation, and to this day, we have yet to fully comprehend the nature of power',- that's probably changed."
via:migurski  politics  socialmedia  egypt  culture  history  hierarchy  power  society  memes  religion  economics  protest  activism  technology  blogs  twitter  facebook  discourse  disruption  michaelhardt  antonionegri  noamchompsky  foucault  deleuze  noamchomsky  gillesdeleuze  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
The Twitter Revolution Must Die
"My sarcasm is, of course, a thinly veiled attempt to point out how absurd it is to refer to events in Iran, Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere as the Twitter Revolution, the Facebook Revolution, and so on. What we call things, the names we use to identify them, has incredible symbolic power, and I, for one, refuse to associate corporate brands with struggles for human dignity."
twitter  facebook  politics  egypt  tunisia  ulisesmejias  ethanzuckerman  malcolmgladwell  clayshirky  corydoctorow  democracy  terminology  socialnetworking  2011  revolution  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
"Does Facebook have to go the extra mile to support activists? …preliminary work has been done to create a special complaint reporting process for NGOs & other activists…<br />
…certainly don't seem to be under any obligations to provide special treatment. But if Facebook really is becoming the public sphere—& wants to remain central to people's real sociopolitically embedded lives—maybe they're going to have to think beyond the situational technical fix. Facebook needs to own its position as a part of The Way the World Works & provide protections for political speech & actors.<br />
…protests & overthrow of Ben Ali were just beginning of story. Hopes are high, but…so many times in global south, exit of one corrupt dictator usually means entrance of another. To avoid that fate, politically active Tunisians will be using all of tools at disposal, including & maybe especially, Facebook. In fact, Rim said, it's already being used to debate how to create a new government & a better Tunisia."
facebook  security  privacy  tunisia  2011  alexismadrigal  internet  politics  socialsoftware  socialnetworking  activism  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
hello typepad: Rip, Mix, Burn, 2011 Style
"Leapf - is the best "meta"-dashboard out there right now. Leapf's proprietor Mark wrote (somewhere) that Leapf was about the moon, not the finger, and it really works. Rather than simply aggregate and collapse links and images pulled out of Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, TypePad, etc., leapf figures out what people are linking to and collapses the feedback into one stream. It does more too, but it's relevant here because it's the best reading experience if you want to "cross the streams." The Twitter app is related and has some very similar ideas, but it still feels like a little bit of a mess to me."
davidjacobs  laepf  tumblr  twitter  facebook  aggregator  aggregation  typepad  vimeo  instapaper  reeder  ipad  ios  applications  reading  flipboard  zinio  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - Yelp (With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg) narrated by Peter Coyote
"Shabbat is a very old idea -- 5000 years old. Just take a break one day a week. I desperately needed a "technology shabbat." Recently addicted to tweeting, I became that person I hated who pulled out her iPhone while actually talking to someone -- sneaking email fixes in bathroom stalls. It was getting ugly. <br />
<br />
Sophocles once said, "nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse," and this couldn't be more true of technology. <br />
<br />
My husband (artist & robotics professor Ken Goldberg) and I were thinking about the "curse" part. We both love technology and have devoted our careers to experimenting with it, but could we unplug for one day a week? So Ken and I decided to try to truly power down one day a week. Inspired by this concept, we reworked Ginsberg's "Howl," into "Yelp." Then I made a little film about it and Peter Coyote lent his great voice."
technology  culture  internet  addiction  email  google  twitter  allenginsberg  howl  im  attention  present  beingpresent  focus  unplug  unplugging  rss  facebook  internetsabbaticals  web  online  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Gamasutra - Features - Creating A Glitch In the Industry
"Q: This is like the unholy marriage of Animal Crossing & EVE Online.

SB: …That's actually a very good way [of describing it.] LittleBigPlanet is obviously an inspiration…in the aesthetics. I wish that we had a PS3 underneath this & that we're a lot better on 3D. But EVE, MOOs, & Animal Crossing have a cult following [here]

…I've never played EVE before…never got into it because it just seemed too hard to me. It's my favorite game to read about.

Q: Most games are boring to play & boring to read about. I'm not sure if EVE's boring to play; it's just an investment I don't want to make. But it's fascinating to read about.

SB: I've always imagined that while the fights can be exciting & it can be cool…to have victory in one of the fights, it's not really what it's about. I mean, people are playing the game to create the world. They're part of the corporations because they're buying into the agenda, even if it's roleplaying, against some other agenda. That's where the fun is."
stewartbutterfield  glitch  tinyspeck  games  eveonline  gaming  reading  cv  worldbuilding  2010  interviews  animalcrossing  littlebigplanet  gamedev  gamedesign  homoludens  play  facebookconnect  facebook  zynga  mmo  flickr  gne  wow  simcity  sims  everquest  muds  mushes  metaplace  secondlife  social  experience  thesims  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Adding Bookmarklets on iPad and iPhone
"I made this page out of frustration. There is simply no easy way to add bookmarklets to your iPad or iPhone. I blagged a little about that here.<br />
<br />
I don't use Safari on my desktop, so I don't sync my bookmarks to my iDevices. So I took a few minutes to copy the Javascript from all my bookmarklets and made this iPhone/iPad formatted page with all the Javascript in a selectable textarea for each bookmarklet. This way I could open up the page on my gadgets, and in about 5 minutes have all of my important bookmarklets loaded into Safari on both my iPad and my iPhone.<br />
<br />
I know this is far from ideal, and even further from anything resembling a solution, but until some smart person comes up with a way around this, or until Apple adds some better bookmark management or add-on capabilities to mobile Safari this will have to do for now."
ipad  iphone  bookmarklets  howto  ios  aggregator  instapaper  facebook  evernote  del.icio.us  bit.ly  ping.fm  digg  reddit  stumbleupon  translation  googlereader  posterous  via:preoccupations  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Unlink Your Feeds - A Manifesto.
"You need to unlink your feeds.<br />
I understand why you did it. I’ve made the same mistake myself. But it’s hurting your friends, you, & the Internet. You need to stop.<br />
You need to stop automatically dumping your feeds from one account into another.<br />
I know it’s tempting. New service, not sure how you’ll keep up w/ ever demanding maw & there’s the “import your content” button, right there in sign-up process. A quick trip through a login screen or an OAuth link & there you are: All your stuff automatically aggregated…<br />
No muss, no fuss, right?<br />
This is an illusory solution. It’s a false idol. It’s contributing to noise pollution…It’s diminishing the quality of your output and of others’ experiences.<br />
You need to unlink your feeds and put a tiny bit more effort into using each service for what it is.<br />
More [links to each of these topics]:It’s hurting your friends.It’s hurting you.It’s hurting the Internet.There’s a better way."
twitter  manifesto  socialmedia  facebook  feeds  rss  del.icio.us  tumblr  timmaly  social  socialnetworking  linkpollution  automation  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
You’ve Got to Have (150) Friends - NYTimes.com
"Until relatively recently, almost everyone on earth lived in small, rural, densely interconnected communities, where our 150 friends all knew one another…<br />
<br />
But social & economic mobility of past century has worn away at that interconnectedness. As we move aroundcountry across continents, we collect disparate pockets of friends, so that our list of 150 consists of a half-dozen subsets of people who barely know of one another’s existence, let alone interact.<br />
<br />
…Emotional closeness declines by around 15% a year in the absence of face-to-face contact, so in 5 years someone can go from being an intimate acquaintance to the most distant outer layer of your 150 friends.<br />
<br />
Facebook & other social networking sites allow us to keep up w/ friendships that would otherwise rapidly wither away. &…to reintegrate our networks so that, rather than having several disconnected subsets…we can rebuild, albeit virtually, the kind of old rural communities where everyone knew everyone else."
robindunbar  dunbar  dunbarnumber  friendship  relationships  facebook  economics  social  media  socialnetworking  socialnetworks  history  humans  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Memolane | Your time machine for the web
"Keep your memories alive. Capture photos, music, tweets, posts, and much more. View and share your entire online life in one place. Explore and search your history. "
socialmedia  tools  lifestream  timeline  visualization  flickr  facebook  twitter  spotify  rss  lastfm  tripit  foursquare  picasa  memolane  search  archives  archiving  backup  aggregator  timelines  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
PUMMELVISION
"Pummelvision flashes your life before your eyes using photos from Facebook, Flickr, or Tumblr."
video  photography  flickr  facebook  generator  pummelvision  tumblr  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Online, Anonymity Breeds Contempt - NYTimes.com
"Even in the 4th century B.C., Plato touched upon the subject of anonymity & morality in his parable of the ring of Gyges.<br />
That mythical ring gave its owner the power of invisibility, & Plato observed that even a habitually just man who possessed such a ring would become a thief, knowing that he couldn’t be caught. Morality, Plato argues, comes from full disclosure; without accountability for our actions we would all behave unjustly…<br />
<br />
Psychological research has proven again & again that anonymity increases unethical behavior. Road rage bubbles up in the relative anonymity of one’s car. & in the online world, which can offer total anonymity, the effect is even more pronounced…There’s even a term for it: the online disinhibition effect.<br />
<br />
At Facebook…approach is to try to replicate real-world social norms by emphasizing the human qualities of conversation. People’s faces, real names & brief bios are placed next to their public comments, to establish a baseline of responsibility."
community  trolls  internet  anonymity  commenting  facebook  trolling  morality  onlinedisinhibition  2010  ethics  human  humannature  cars  driving  plato  gyges  parables  ringofgyges  disclosure  accountability  behavior  etiquette  social  interaction  online  web  socialnorms  conversation  classideas  cv  responsibility  toshare  todiscuss  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Archive Fever: a love letter to the post real-time web | mattogle.com [via: http://log.scifihifi.com/post/2348978639/by-providing-us-with-new-ways-to-share-what-were]
"By providing us with new ways to share what we’re doing right now, the real-time web also captures something we might not have created otherwise: a permanent record of the event. We’ve all been so distracted by The Now that we’ve hardly noticed the beautiful comet tails of personal history trailing in our wake. We’ve all become accidental archivists; our burgeoning digital archives open out of the future."<br />
<br />
"The current philosophy underlying most of the real-time web is that if it’s not recent, it’s not important. This is what we need to change."<br />
<br />
"I believe we, as makers of online services, have an incredible opportunity to ground the things we create in both the present and the past, making them — and thus ourselves — richer, more beautiful, and more human.<br />
<br />
But first we need to catch archive fever."
twitter  internet  memory  memoryplatforms  realtime  realtimeweb  now  archives  archiving  search  2010  foursquare  web  facebook  last.fm  memoryretrieval  cv  commonplacebooks  perspective  hereandnow  past  present  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Summify
"Summify automatically identifies the most important news stories for you across all of your social networks and tells why they are important, so you can read what really matters.<br />
<br />
Summify gets better and better as you follow or subscribe to more and more sources!"
aggregator  summify  rss  twitter  facebook  email  news  reader  tools  googlereader  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Facebook provides community for Indonesia's street kids - CSMonitor.com
"Adi Danando is a child-labor activist who has been working with and researching street children for more than three decades. Kids living on the street 24 hours a day are under a lot of pressure, he says. They are excluded and judged, which leads to identity problems. Many don't have birth certificates, which are required to enroll in school, so on paper they don't actually exist.<br />
<br />
"Facebook provides these kids with a sort of identity, which gives them a sense of pride and belonging," Mr. Danando says.<br />
<br />
The social-networking site also allows them to communicate with people from different backgrounds. And games can teach them business skills like negotiating and idea sharing."
facebook  youth  teens  indonesia  identity  learning  informallearning  informal  language  unschooling  deschooling  holeinthewall  lcproject  socialnetworking  inclusion  exclusion  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
What happens next? « Prospect Magazine
"The revolutions of the future will appear in forms we don’t even recognise—in a language we can’t read. We will be looking out for twists on the old themes but not noticing that there are whole new conversations taking place. Just imagine if all the things about which we now get so heated meant nothing to those who follow us—as mysteriously irrelevant as the nuanced distinctions between anarcho-syndicalism and communist anarchism. At least we can hope for that. As the cybernetician Stafford Beer once said to me: “If we can understand our children, we’re all screwed.” So revel in your mystification and read it as a sign of a healthy future. Whatever happens next, it won’t be what you expected. If it is what you expected, it isn’t what’s happening next."
technology  culture  future  facebook  music  brianeno  generations  predictions  futures  staffordbeer  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Trevor Stone's Journal - William Gibson Reflects on Orwell's 1984
"keep most of my data on Internet public to world. Partly…so strangers can discover my insights & quirks & find whatever inspiration helps them. Partly…to level playing field: ordinary folks on 'net can learn about me almost as easily as secretive govt organizations & corps w/ platoons of computers.<br />
<br />
…1 reason I'm not on Facebook…despite all bluster about how they're destroying privacy, they've not made it very easy to provide info to world at large…"Share these photos w/ others, even if they don't have Facebook" sent email to non-users that just invited them to create an account. I don't think it's possible to create RSS feed of status updates so people can read them in their own preferred way. Despite happily taking people's email passwords & plundering their address book, they refuse users the ability to export a list of their friends' contact info…if you're worried about govt tracking your activities on Internet, just think about what Facebook can do w/ the data it has…"
facebook  privacy  williamgibson  trevorstone  sharing  web  internet  2010  2003  1984  georgeorwell  surveillance  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
a m l - facebook's gender anxiety
"facebook’s curious need to reinforce traditional gender types points out a latent conservativeness in the site, less willing to engage in more flexible concepts of gender. furthermore, the little avatar puts gender front and center: it is the first thing to be told about your ‘facebook persona.’ in the end, this is what bothers me the most. why should i be defined by my gender? my gender does not determine (to be specific) my ability to be an architect, to be good at drawing, to love geometry, and to like languages. gender is a fantastic part of who we are, but it should not determine or define us. facebook seems to disagree."
gender  facebook  identity  anamaríaleón  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
The Soul of Web 2.0 | the human network [via: http://willrichardson.posterous.com/quote-of-the-day-mark-pesce]
"This is the essential starting point for any discussion of what the Web is, what it is becoming, and how it should be presented. The individual, with their needs, their passions, their opinions, their desires and their goals is always paramount. We tend to forget this, or overlook it, or just plain ignore it. We design from a point of view which is about what we have to say, what we want to present, what we expect to communicate. It’s not that that we should ignore these considerations, but they are always secondary. The Web is a ground for being. Individuals do not present themselves as receptacles to be filled. They are souls looking to be fulfilled. This is as true for children as for adults – perhaps more so – and for this reason the educational Web has to be about space and place for being, not merely the presentation of a good-looking set of data."
markpesce  sharing  internet  socialnetworking  social  iteration  regulation  contribution  connecting  open  facebook  twitter  web  online  openness  williamgibson  streetuse  design  user-centered  self-directedlearning  communication  existence  edtech  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
metacool: More thoughts on the primacy of doing: Shinya Kimura, Jeep, Corvette, and the cultural zeitgeist of life in 2010
"cultural zeitgeist of life in 2010 America is clearly saying "We need to start thinking with our hands again", & that we need at least to have confidence in our decision making as we seek to create things of intrinsic value…It's not difficult to get to a strong, compelling point of view. That's what design thinking can do for you. But in each of these videos I sense our society expressing a strong yearning for something beyond process, the courage to make decisions and to act. Talking and thinking is easy, shipping is tough…<br />
<br />
Tinkering, hacking, experimenting, they're all ways of experiencing the world which are more apt than not to lead to generative, highly creative outcomes. I firmly believe that kids & young adults who are allowed to hack, break, tear apart, & generally probe the world around them develop an innate sense of courage when it comes time to make a decision to actually do something. I see this all the time at Stanford…"
diegorodriguez  make  making  handson  hands  manufacturing  machines  tinkering  shinyakimura  detroit  gm  jeep  bigthree  spacerace  rockets  nostalgia  thinking  learning  experimenting  experience  facebook  google  apple  hacking  creativity  innovation  2010  jacobbronowski  design  engineering  machining  action  tcsnmy  glvo  lcproject  doing  motivation  do  corvette  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Literary Writers and Social Media: A Response to Zadie Smith - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
"When professional writers, especially ones trained in the literary arts, see horrifically bad writing online, they recoil. All their training about the value of diverse (or, you know, heteroglossic) societies and the equality of classes goes flying out the window. Social media acts as a kind of truth serum, as Marshall Kirkpatrick likes to say: This is how the masses of people talk. This is how the masses of people write. Not moonlighting bloggers. Not the 20 million NPR listeners. But the other 300 million people trying to LOL their way through boring days at office jobs or in Iraq.<br />
<br />
I think we confuse the ability to see what everyday writing looks like -- and probably has for a long time -- with a change in how people write. Toss in that the traditional (usually religious) practices and sayings around serious topics like death or childbearing have lost valence, and you get people just saying what comes to mind. It's not always pretty."
zadiesmith  alexismadrigal  writing  writers  reality  thesocialnetwork  facebook  socialmedia  theory  colloquialwriting  snobbery  insularity  everydaywriting  literature  media  immaturity  perspective  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
« earlier      

related tags

3g ⊕  21stcenturyskills ⊕  43folders ⊕  aaronsorkin ⊕  abundance ⊕  academia ⊕  accountability ⊕  action ⊕  activism ⊕  adamgreenfield ⊕  adamlisagor ⊕  add ⊕  adda ⊕  addas ⊕  addedvalue ⊕  addiction ⊕  addressbook ⊕  adhd ⊕  administration ⊕  admissions ⊕  adolescence ⊕  adolescents ⊕  ads ⊕  adulthood ⊕  adults ⊕  advertising ⊕  advice ⊕  affordances ⊕  age ⊕  aggregation ⊕  aggregator ⊕  aging ⊕  agitpropproject ⊕  ai ⊕  aildash ⊕  alexismadrigal ⊕  algorithms ⊕  alienation ⊕  allenginsberg ⊕  allentan ⊕  alwayson ⊕  amateur ⊕  amateurism ⊕  amazon ⊕  ambient ⊕  ambientawareness ⊕  ambientexposure ⊕  ambientintimacy ⊕  ambiguity ⊕  analysis ⊕  analytics ⊕  anamaríaleón ⊕  android ⊕  animalcrossing ⊕  animals ⊕  annemarsen ⊕  annotation ⊕  anonymity ⊕  anonymous ⊕  anterogarcia ⊕  anthropology ⊕  antisocial ⊕  antonionegri ⊕  anxiety ⊕  aol ⊕  api ⊕  apple ⊕  application ⊕  applications ⊕  arabspring ⊕  archivability ⊕  archives ⊕  archiving ⊕  arg ⊕  argument ⊕  art ⊕  aspirationalselves ⊕  assessment ⊕  atemporality ⊕  attention ⊕  attentioneconomy ⊕  audience ⊕  audio ⊕  augmentation ⊕  authentication ⊕  authenticity ⊕  automation ⊕  autonomy ⊕  availability ⊕  awareness ⊕  babyboomers ⊕  backchannel ⊕  background ⊕  backup ⊕  badges ⊕  balance ⊕  banking ⊕  barackobama ⊕  barbarahofer ⊕  batteries ⊕  beacon ⊕  beatles ⊕  bebo ⊕  becausewecan ⊕  behavior ⊕  beingpresent ⊕  beyondtext ⊕  bfskinner ⊕  bias ⊕  biases ⊕  bigbrother ⊕  bigthree ⊕  billgates ⊕  billkeller ⊕  bing ⊕  bingmaps ⊕  birthdays ⊕  bit.ly ⊕  bittorrent ⊕  blackberries ⊕  blackbookmedia ⊕  blippy ⊕  blocking ⊕  blogging ⊕  blogosphere ⊕  blogs ⊕  bluetooth ⊕  bogs ⊕  bookmarking ⊕  bookmarklets ⊕  books ⊕  boomers ⊕  boredom ⊕  bots ⊕  brain ⊕  branding ⊕  brevity ⊕  brianeno ⊕  broadcast ⊕  broadcasting ⊕  browser ⊕  browsers ⊕  brucesterling ⊕  bullying ⊕  burgerking ⊕  burnout ⊕  business ⊕  business-iness ⊕  buzz ⊕  cafe ⊕  cafes ⊕  calendars ⊕  Calibre ⊕  calls ⊕  cameras ⊕  capitalism ⊕  carlhonoré ⊕  cars ⊕  casestudy ⊕  caseygollan ⊕  caterinafake ⊕  cellphones ⊕  cenceme ⊕  censorship ⊕  change ⊕  charlieloyd ⊕  charliestross ⊕  chat ⊕  childhood ⊕  children ⊕  china ⊕  chinese ⊕  choice ⊕  chrisanderson ⊕  chrismessina ⊕  chrome ⊕  chronoogical ⊕  cia ⊕  circles ⊕  cities ⊕  citizenship ⊕  civics ⊕  civility ⊕  claendars ⊕  clairewarwick ⊕  class ⊕  classideas ⊕  clayshirky ⊕  clivethompson ⊕  cloackingdevices ⊕  closedsystems ⊕  cloud ⊕  cloudcomputing ⊕  co-presence ⊕  code ⊕  coding ⊕  cognition ⊕  cognitivesurplus ⊕  collaboration ⊕  collaborative ⊕  collectiveintelligence ⊕  colleges ⊕  colloquialwriting ⊕  commencementspeeches ⊕  commentary ⊕  commenting ⊕  comments ⊕  commerce ⊕  commonplacebooks ⊕  commons ⊕  communication ⊕  communities ⊕  community ⊕  comparison ⊕  competition ⊕  complementary ⊕  complexity ⊕  compuserve ⊕  computation ⊕  computers ⊕  computing ⊕  concentration ⊕  conferences ⊕  connectedness ⊕  connecting ⊕  connectivism ⊕  connectivity ⊕  consciousawareness ⊕  consciousidentitydevelopment ⊕  constraints ⊕  constructedreality ⊕  constructivism ⊕  consumer ⊕  consumerism ⊕  consumerist ⊕  consumption ⊕  contact ⊕  contacts ⊕  content ⊕  context ⊕  continuouspartialattention ⊕  continuouspartialfriendship ⊕  contribution ⊕  control ⊕  controversy ⊕  convergence ⊕  conversation ⊕  cooperation ⊕  coordination ⊕  coppa ⊕  copyright ⊕  corporations ⊕  corporatism ⊕  corruption ⊕  corvette ⊕  corydoctorow ⊕  cowbird ⊕  cowclicker ⊕  coworkers ⊕  craft ⊕  craigbarrett ⊕  craigslist ⊕  crapdetection ⊕  creation ⊕  creativecommons ⊕  creativity ⊕  criticalthinking ⊕  criticism ⊕  critique ⊕  crossdisciplinary ⊕  crosspollination ⊕  crowds ⊕  crowdsourcing ⊕  csiap ⊕  culture ⊕  cultureoffear ⊕  curating ⊕  curation ⊕  curations ⊕  currency ⊕  curriculum ⊕  cv ⊕  cyberbullying ⊕  cyberoptimism ⊕  cybersafety ⊕  cyberspace ⊕  cyberspacetomeatspace ⊕  cycles ⊕  cyoa ⊕  daily ⊕  dailymotion ⊕  danahboyd ⊕  daniellecitron ⊕  data ⊕  database ⊕  databubble ⊕  datamining ⊕  dataownership ⊕  datavisualization ⊕  davewiner ⊕  davidbrooks ⊕  davidjacobs ⊕  davidpogue ⊕  deactivation ⊕  deadmedia ⊕  debate ⊕  decentralization ⊕  decentralized ⊕  decisionmaking ⊕  decline ⊕  defineityourself ⊕  definitions ⊕  del.icio.us ⊕  delete ⊕  deleuze ⊕  democracy ⊕  demographics ⊕  density ⊕  derekpowazek ⊕  deschooling ⊕  design ⊕  detroit ⊕  development ⊕  diagrams ⊕  dialog ⊕  dialogue ⊕  diegorodriguez ⊕  difference ⊕  difficulty ⊕  digg ⊕  digital ⊕  digitalcameras ⊕  digitalcitizenship ⊕  digitalculture ⊕  digitaldiversity ⊕  digitalfootprint ⊕  digitalhumanities ⊕  digitalliteracy ⊕  digitalmedia ⊕  digitalnatives ⊕  diigo ⊕  disasters ⊕  disclosure ⊕  disconnect ⊕  discourse ⊕  discovery ⊕  discussion ⊕  disease ⊕  disruption ⊕  dissent ⊕  distraction ⊕  distributed ⊕  distributedlearning ⊕  distribution ⊕  diversity ⊕  divide ⊕  diy ⊕  djangoreinhardt ⊕  do ⊕  docsearls ⊕  documentary ⊕  documentation ⊕  doing ⊕  dopplr ⊕  dougaldhine ⊕  douglascoupland ⊕  douglasrushkoff ⊕  driving ⊕  dropbox ⊕  ds ⊕  dunbar ⊕  dunbarnumber ⊕  e-learning ⊕  earlyadopters ⊕  earth ⊕  echochambers ⊕  echofon ⊕  ecology ⊕  ecommerce ⊕  economics ⊕  economy ⊕  ecosystems ⊕  edg ⊕  edge ⊕  edtech ⊕  eduardogaleano ⊕  education ⊕  eff ⊕  efficiency ⊕  egypt ⊕  elearning ⊕  elections ⊕  elephantseals ⊕  elipariser ⊕  elite ⊕  elitism ⊕  email ⊕  emotion ⊕  empathy ⊕  endings ⊕  engagement ⊕  engineering ⊕  english ⊕  enterprise ⊕  enterprise2.0 ⊕  entertainment ⊕  entrepreneurship ⊕  environment ⊕  ephemera ⊕  epiphinator ⊕  ericschmidt ⊕  erinkissane ⊕  escapism ⊕  español ⊕  essays ⊕  estherdyson ⊕  eszterhargittai ⊕  ethanresnick ⊕  ethanzuckerman ⊕  ethics ⊕  ethnicity ⊕  ethnography ⊕  etiquette ⊕  etsy ⊕  evaluation ⊕  eveonline ⊕  evernote ⊕  everquest ⊕  everyblock ⊕  everyday ⊕  everydaywriting ⊕  evite ⊕  evoke ⊕  excess ⊕  exchange ⊕  exclusion ⊕  existence ⊕  exodus ⊕  expectations ⊕  experience ⊕  experiencedesign ⊕  experimenting ⊕  exposure ⊕  expression ⊕  extension ⊕  facebook ⊖  facebookconnect ⊕  factoryschools ⊕  falsebook ⊕  families ⊕  farmville ⊕  fascism ⊕  fashion ⊕  fatigue ⊕  fear ⊕  fearmongering ⊕  feedback ⊕  feedbackloops ⊕  feeds ⊕  feelings ⊕  feral ⊕  fiction ⊕  filetype:pdf ⊕  film ⊕  filterbubbles ⊕  filtering ⊕  finance ⊕  findings ⊕  firefox ⊕  firstlife ⊕  fitering ⊕  flash ⊕  flcikr ⊕  flickr ⊕  flipboard ⊕  floss ⊕  flow ⊕  fluidity ⊕  focus ⊕  folksonomy ⊕  follow-up ⊕  followers ⊕  food ⊕  footprint ⊕  forecasting ⊕  forgetting ⊕  formal ⊕  forums ⊕  FOSS ⊕  foucault ⊕  foursquare ⊕  frankchimero ⊕  free ⊕  freedom ⊕  freeware ⊕  friendfeed ⊕  friending ⊕  friendship ⊕  frinedster ⊕  ftrain ⊕  furniture ⊕  future ⊕  futures ⊕  futurism ⊕  futurology ⊕  gadgets ⊕  gamechanging ⊕  gamedesign ⊕  gamedev ⊕  gameplay ⊕  games ⊕  gamification ⊕  gaming ⊕  ge ⊕  geek ⊕  gender ⊕  generalelectric ⊕  generations ⊕  generationx ⊕  generator ⊕  genx ⊕  geny ⊕  geo ⊕  geolocation ⊕  georgecouros ⊕  georgeorwell ⊕  georgesiemens ⊕  geotagging ⊕  gifteconomy ⊕  gillesdeleuze ⊕  girls ⊕  girltalk ⊕  girlwalk ⊕  glitch ⊕  globalization ⊕  glocalism ⊕  glvo ⊕  gm ⊕  gmail ⊕  gne ⊕  google ⊕  google+ ⊕  googleapps ⊕  googlebuzz ⊕  googledocs ⊕  googlereader ⊕  government ⊕  gowalla ⊕  gps ⊕  grantmccracken ⊕  graphics ⊕  graphs ⊕  groups ⊕  groupsize ⊕  growth ⊕  gtd ⊕  gutfeelings ⊕  gyges ⊕  habitsofmind ⊕  hackerculture ⊕  hackers ⊕  hacking ⊕  halhildebrand ⊕  hands ⊕  handson ⊕  happiness ⊕  hashtags ⊕  hate ⊕  health ⊕  helicopterparents ⊕  henryjenkins ⊕  hereandnow ⊕  hierarchy ⊕  highered ⊕  highereducation ⊕  hiring ⊕  hirshhornmuseum ⊕  history ⊕  holeinthewall ⊕  homes ⊕  homeschool ⊕  homoludens ⊕  hosting ⊕  howarddean ⊕  howardjarche ⊕  howardrheingold ⊕  howardzinn ⊕  howl ⊕  howto ⊕  howwelearn ⊕  howwework ⊕  howwewrite ⊕  html ⊕  huffingtonpost ⊕  human ⊕  humanism ⊕  humanity ⊕  humannature ⊕  humans ⊕  humor ⊕  hunch ⊕  hype ⊕  hypercard ⊕  hypertext ⊕  hypocrisy ⊕  ianbogost ⊕  ibooks ⊕  ict ⊕  idealism ⊕  ideas ⊕  identi.ca ⊕  identity ⊕  identitydevelopment ⊕  idleness ⊕  if ⊕  iftf ⊕  ifttt ⊕  ikea ⊕  im ⊕  image ⊕  imagerecognition ⊕  images ⊕  imaginaryplaces ⊕  immaturity ⊕  immersive ⊕  impartialencounters ⊕  impartiality ⊕  impulse ⊕  inbescreen ⊕  inbetweeness ⊕  incentives ⊕  inclusion ⊕  indexing ⊕  indonesia ⊕  influence ⊕  infographics ⊕  infoliteracy ⊕  infooverload ⊕  informal ⊕  informality ⊕  informallearning ⊕  information ⊕  informationliteracy ⊕  informationmanagement ⊕  infrastructure ⊕  ingenuity ⊕  innovation ⊕  input ⊕  instagram ⊕  instapaper ⊕  instinct ⊕  instruction ⊕  insularity ⊕  intelligence ⊕  interaction ⊕  interactiondesign ⊕  interactive ⊕  interactivedocumentary ⊕  interactivefiction ⊕  interdisciplinary ⊕  interface ⊕  interfacedesign ⊕  interiors ⊕  international ⊕  internet ⊕  internetbubbles ⊕  internetsabbaticals ⊕  internetsafety ⊕  interpretation ⊕  interruptions ⊕  intervention ⊕  interviews ⊕  intimacy ⊕  intrinsicmotivation ⊕  introversion ⊕  introverts ⊕  invention ⊕  ios ⊕  ip ⊕  ipad ⊕  iphone ⊕  ipod ⊕  iteration ⊕  itunes ⊕  jackwelch ⊕  jacobbronowski ⊕  jaiku ⊕  janchipchase ⊕  janemcgonigal ⊕  japan ⊕  jaronlanier ⊕  jasoncalacanis ⊕  jasonkottke ⊕  jasonschultz ⊕  javascript ⊕  javierarbona ⊕  jazz ⊕  jeep ⊕  jeffjarvis ⊕  jeffreymacintyre ⊕  jesseschell ⊕  joannemcneil ⊕  jobs ⊕  johndvorak ⊕  johnpalfrey ⊕  johnperrybarlow ⊕  jonathanfranzen ⊕  jonathanharris ⊕  joost ⊕  jott ⊕  journalism ⊕  jprangaswami ⊕  julianbleecker ⊕  justincharles ⊕  jyriengestrom ⊕  karlmarx ⊕  karlschroeder ⊕  katiegillum ⊕  kazysvarnelis ⊕  keynote ⊕  khoivinh ⊕  kickstarter ⊕  kilombo ⊕  kinde ⊕  kindle ⊕  klout ⊕  klynt ⊕  knowledge ⊕  knowledgemanagement ⊕  kongregate ⊕  kotaku ⊕  kottke ⊕  kyte ⊕  labor ⊕  laepf ⊕  language ⊕  laptops ⊕  larrylessig ⊕  last.fm ⊕  lastfm ⊕  latinamerica ⊕  laurenthaug ⊕  law ⊕  lcproject ⊕  leadership ⊕  leapfrogging ⊕  learning ⊕  learningbydoing ⊕  lectures ⊕  legal ⊕  lego ⊕  leighalexander ⊕  leisareichelt ⊕  letmeshowyou ⊕  levis ⊕  life ⊕  lifehacks ⊕  lifelonglearning ⊕  lifemagazine ⊕  lifeskills ⊕  lifestream ⊕  lifestreaming ⊕  lifestreams ⊕  lifestyle ⊕  linear ⊕  linguistics ⊕  linkedin ⊕  linkpollution ⊕  links ⊕  linux ⊕  literacies ⊕  literacy ⊕  literature ⊕  littlebigplanet ⊕  littlesis ⊕  living ⊕  lms ⊕  localcurrencies ⊕  localcurrency ⊕  location ⊕  location-based ⊕  locative ⊕  loneliness ⊕  longform ⊕  longtail ⊕  losangeles ⊕  love ⊕  lying ⊕  mac ⊕  machines ⊕  machining ⊕  maciejceglowski ⊕  mafia ⊕  magazines ⊕  magic ⊕  mainstream ⊕  make ⊕  makeyourowntool ⊕  making ⊕  makingmeaning ⊕  malcolmgladwell ⊕  management ⊕  managment ⊕  manifesto ⊕  manipulation ⊕  manufacturing ⊕  mapping ⊕  maps ⊕  markamkramer ⊕  markbauerlein ⊕  markcuban ⊕  marketing ⊕  markpesce ⊕  markzuckerberg ⊕  marshallmcluhan ⊕  martinvarsavsky ⊕  marxism ⊕  mashups ⊕  massmingling ⊕  math ⊕  mathonan ⊕  matthaughey ⊕  matthieucherubini ⊕  maxfenton ⊕  mcsweeneys ⊕  meaning ⊕  meaningfulness ⊕  meaningmaking ⊕  meansofexchange ⊕  meatspace ⊕  media ⊕  media:document ⊕  mediaaccess ⊕  mediadiversity ⊕  medialiteracy ⊕  mediocrity ⊕  meetings ⊕  meetups ⊕  memes ⊕  memolane ⊕  memories ⊕  memory ⊕  memoryplatforms ⊕  memoryprosthesis ⊕  memoryretrieval ⊕  mentoring ⊕  mentors ⊕  mentorships ⊕  merlinmann ⊕  messaging ⊕  metadata ⊕  metaplace ⊕  metastory ⊕  micaelsippey ⊕  michaelhardt ⊕  michaelwesch ⊕  microblogging ⊕  microblogs ⊕  microsoft ⊕  middlemanagement ⊕  middlemen ⊕  migration ⊕  mikemonteiro ⊕  millennials ⊕  mimiito ⊕  missedconnections ⊕  mistakes ⊕  mixandmatch ⊕  mixi ⊕  mizukoito ⊕  mmo ⊕  mmorpg ⊕  mobile ⊕  mobilelearning ⊕  mobilephones ⊕  mobility ⊕  mobilityshifts ⊕  moblogging ⊕  mobs ⊕  modeling ⊕  moldability ⊕  monetization ⊕  money ⊕  monopoly ⊕  moo ⊕  mooreslaw ⊕  morality ⊕  moralpanics ⊕  morals ⊕  mososo ⊕  mostdangerousgame ⊕  motivation ⊕  mozilla ⊕  muds ⊕  multiliteracies ⊕  multimedia ⊕  multipurpose ⊕  multitasking ⊕  mushes ⊕  music ⊕  myers-briggs ⊕  myspace ⊕  myths ⊕  names ⊕  naming ⊕  narcissism ⊕  narrative ⊕  nasa ⊕  nearfuture ⊕  necessity ⊕  neo-nomads ⊕  neologisms ⊕  net ⊕  netgen ⊕  netiquette ⊕  netvibes ⊕  network ⊕  networkculture ⊕  networkeducation ⊕  networkedurbanism ⊕  networkeffect ⊕  networkeffects ⊕  networking ⊕  networks ⊕  neuroscience ⊕  neurosis ⊕  newmedia ⊕  news ⊕  newschool ⊕  newspapers ⊕  newsweek ⊕  newyorker ⊕  nexusone ⊕  nfc ⊕  nicholasfelton ⊕  ning ⊕  nintendo ⊕  nintendods ⊕  noahkalina ⊕  noamchompsky ⊕  noamchomsky ⊕  nokia ⊕  nomads ⊕  nostalgia ⊕  notetaking ⊕  notification ⊕  novelty ⊕  now ⊕  nuance ⊕  nuclearfamily ⊕  nvalt ⊕  nytimes ⊕  objects ⊕  occupywallstreet ⊕  offices ⊕  offline ⊕  oliverwhite ⊕  ommalik ⊕  online ⊕  onlinedisinhibition ⊕  onlinelearning ⊕  onlinesafety ⊕  onlinetoolkit ⊕  open ⊕  opendata ⊕  opengovernment ⊕  openid ⊕  openness ⊕  opensocial ⊕  opensociety ⊕  opensource ⊕  openweb ⊕  opinion ⊕  opportunity ⊕  oreilly ⊕  organization ⊕  organizations ⊕  osx ⊕  overload ⊕  ownership ⊕  ows ⊕  p2p ⊕  panic ⊕  panopticon ⊕  paper ⊕  paperless ⊕  papernet ⊕  parables ⊕  parenting ⊕  parents ⊕  participation ⊕  participatory ⊕  participatoryculture ⊕  passwords ⊕  past ⊕  path ⊕  patternrecognition ⊕  pauladams ⊕  paulcarr ⊕  paulford ⊕  paulgraham ⊕  payment ⊕  paypal ⊕  pedagogy ⊕  peers ⊕  peertopeer ⊕  people ⊕  perception ⊕  perceptionofrisk ⊕  performance ⊕  personal ⊕  personalbranding ⊕  personality ⊕  personalization ⊕  personhood ⊕  perspective ⊕  persuasion ⊕  phatic ⊕  philosophy ⊕  phone ⊕  phonecalls ⊕  phones ⊕  photography ⊕  photosharing ⊕  photosynth ⊕  physical ⊕  picasa ⊕  pinboard ⊕  ping.fm ⊕  pinwheel ⊕  piracy ⊕  place ⊕  place-shifted ⊕  platforms ⊕  plato ⊕  play ⊕  ples ⊕  plugin ⊕  pmog ⊕  poductivity ⊕  policy ⊕  politics ⊕  popculture ⊕  portability ⊕  portable ⊕  portals ⊕  postconsumerism ⊕  posterous ⊕  postmaterialism ⊕  postprint ⊕  poverty ⊕  power ⊕  pownce ⊕  practice ⊕  predictions ⊕  present ⊕  principles ⊕  privacy ⊕  problemsolving ⊕  procrastination ⊕  prodigy ⊕  productivity ⊕  professionaldevelopment ⊕  profile ⊕  profiling ⊕  profit ⊕  programming ⊕  progress ⊕  progressive ⊕  projectbasedlearning ⊕  projects ⊕  proprietarysolutions ⊕  protest ⊕  protests ⊕  proximity ⊕  pruning ⊕  pscs ⊕  pseudonyms ⊕  psychology ⊕  public ⊕  publicengagement ⊕  publichealth ⊕  publishing ⊕  pugetsoundcommunityschool ⊕  pummelvision ⊕  python ⊕  quality ⊕  qualitycontrol ⊕  query ⊕  quiet ⊕  quit ⊕  quotes ⊕  qwerty ⊕  race ⊕  radar ⊕  reachability ⊕  readability ⊕  reader ⊕  reading ⊕  reading.am ⊕  readmill ⊕  readwriteweb ⊕  reality ⊕  reallife ⊕  reallyfreeschool ⊕  realtime ⊕  realtimeweb ⊕  reasoning ⊕  recording ⊕  reddit ⊕  redhat ⊕  redundancy ⊕  reeder ⊕  reference ⊕  reflection ⊕  reform ⊕  regulation ⊕  reiflarsen ⊕  relationships ⊕  relevance ⊕  reliability ⊕  religion ⊕  remembering ⊕  remix ⊕  remixing ⊕  rep.licants.org ⊕  reputation ⊕  research ⊕  resolution ⊕  resources ⊕  respect ⊕  responsibility ⊕  retrievability ⊕  retrieval ⊕  reviews ⊕  revolution ⊕  reward ⊕  rewards ⊕  rights ⊕  ringofgyges ⊕  risk ⊕  riskassessment ⊕  robindunbar ⊕  robinhunicke ⊕  robinsloan ⊕  rockets ⊕  rollingstone ⊕  ronpaul ⊕  rpg ⊕  rss ⊕  rsscloud ⊕  rtreborscholz ⊕  rules ⊕  rumors ⊕  russelldavies ⊕  safari ⊕  safety ⊕  sanity ⊕  sarahlacy ⊕  satire ⊕  saturation ⊕  scale ⊕  scaling ⊕  scandal ⊕  scanning ⊕  scarcity ⊕  scheduling ⊕  school ⊕  schooldesign ⊕  schooling ⊕  schools ⊕  science ⊕  sciencefiction ⊕  scifi ⊕  scoble ⊕  scratch ⊕  seals ⊕  search ⊕  searchability ⊕  secondlife ⊕  security ⊕  seeing ⊕  self ⊕  self-directedlearning ⊕  self-employment ⊕  self-expression ⊕  semanticweb ⊕  sensing ⊕  seo ⊕  serendipity ⊕  seriousgames ⊕  servantleaders ⊕  services ⊕  sethgodin ⊕  sex ⊕  sharedexperience ⊕  sharedspace ⊕  sharing ⊕  sherryturkle ⊕  shinyakimura ⊕  sidelining ⊕  signal ⊕  signaltonoise ⊕  siliconvalley ⊕  simcity ⊕  simplicity ⊕  simpsons ⊕  sims ⊕  skeuomorph ⊕  skiamorphs ⊕  skills ⊕  skype ⊕  sl ⊕  slang ⊕  slavery ⊕  slow ⊕  slowmovement ⊕  slowness ⊕  smallcirclesofintimates ⊕  smallpieceslooselyjoined ⊕  smallschools ⊕  sms ⊕  snobbery ⊕  sociability ⊕  social ⊕  socialbookmarking ⊕  socialcontact ⊕  socialcurriculum ⊕  socialemotional ⊕  socialgames ⊕  socialgaming ⊕  socialgraph ⊕  sociality ⊕  socialization ⊕  socialjustice ⊕  socialmedia ⊕  socialnetworking ⊕  socialnetworks ⊕  socialnorms ⊕  socialobjects ⊕  socialproprioception ⊕  socialskills ⊕  socialsoftware ⊕  socialthing ⊕  society ⊕  sociology ⊕  software ⊕  solitude ⊕  soundmaps ⊕  soundscapes ⊕  space ⊕  spacerace ⊕  spacetime ⊕  spam ⊕  spatialinteraction ⊕  speech ⊕  speechrecognition ⊕  speed ⊕  spotify ⊕  srg ⊕  staffordbeer ⊕  standards ⊕  startup ⊕  startups ⊕  statistics ⊕  stefanabroadbent ⊕  steganography ⊕  stencyl ⊕  stephaniemorgan ⊕  stephendownes ⊕  stevejobs ⊕  stevemiranda ⊕  stewartbrand ⊕  stewartbutterfield ⊕  stickybits ⊕  stockandflow ⊕  storage ⊕  stories ⊕  storify ⊕  storyboards ⊕  storytelling ⊕  stoweboyd ⊕  strangers ⊕  strategy ⊕  streams ⊕  streetuse ⊕  structure ⊕  studentcentered ⊕  students ⊕  study ⊕  stumbleupon ⊕  style ⊕  subconscious ⊕  substance ⊕  summary ⊕  summify ⊕  superstruct ⊕  surveillance ⊕  survey ⊕  sustainability ⊕  sxsw ⊕  syndication ⊕  tahoo ⊕  tasks ⊕  tcsnmy ⊕  teaching ⊕  technology ⊕  ted ⊕  tedxobserver ⊕  teenagers ⊕  teens ⊕  television ⊕  terminology ⊕  termsofservice ⊕  text ⊕  texting ⊕  the2837university ⊕  theatlantic ⊕  thekidsareallrigh ⊕  theonion ⊕  theory ⊕  theparisreview ⊕  thereisnoblankslate ⊕  thereisnofreshstart ⊕  thesims ⊕  thesis ⊕  thesocialnetwork ⊕  thinking ⊕  thirdplaces ⊕  thisishuge ⊕  thisiswhatwedo ⊕  thoreau ⊕  thunderbird ⊕  timcarmody ⊕  time ⊕  time-shifted ⊕  timelapse ⊕  timeline ⊕  timelines ⊕  timemanagement ⊕  timmaly ⊕  timoreilly ⊕  tinkering ⊕  tinyspeck ⊕  tips ⊕  todiscuss ⊕  tolisten ⊕  toolabuse ⊕  tools ⊕  topost ⊕  tos ⊕  toshare ⊕  tracking ⊕  tragic ⊕  trainingwheels ⊕  transformation ⊕  translation ⊕  transparency ⊕  travel ⊕  trends ⊕  trendwatching ⊕  trevorstone ⊕  tripit ⊕  trolling ⊕  trolls ⊕  trust ⊕  truth ⊕  tumblr ⊕  tunisia ⊕  turing ⊕  tutorials ⊕  tv ⊕  twitter ⊕  twittertools ⊕  typepad ⊕  ubiquitouswebconnections ⊕  ubuntu ⊕  ui ⊕  uk ⊕  ulisesmejias ⊕  unconferences ⊕  understanding ⊕  unfacebook ⊕  universities ⊕  unknown ⊕  unplug ⊕  unplugging ⊕  unschooling ⊕  unstructured ⊕  urban ⊕  urbanism ⊕  urls ⊕  uruguay ⊕  us ⊕  usability ⊕  usage ⊕  use ⊕  user-centered ⊕  users ⊕  utilities ⊕  utility ⊕  ux ⊕  value ⊕  values ⊕  via:cervus ⊕  via:cityofsound ⊕  via:crystaltips ⊕  via:hrheingold ⊕  via:javierarbona ⊕  via:jeeves ⊕  via:jessebrand ⊕  via:kissane ⊕  via:kottke ⊕  via:lukeneff ⊕  via:migurski ⊕  via:preoccupations ⊕  via:sahelidatta ⊕  via:straup ⊕  via:tealtan ⊕  video ⊕  videogames ⊕  vimeo ⊕  vinaygupta ⊕  virtual ⊕  visibility ⊕  visualization ⊕  vladimirnabokov ⊕  voice ⊕  walledgardens ⊕  war ⊕  warrenellis ⊕  washingtonpost ⊕  weather ⊕  web ⊕  web2.0 ⊕  webapps ⊕  webdesign ⊕  webdev ⊕  webdoc ⊕  webmail ⊕  webservice ⊕  website ⊕  webstock ⊕  webstock12 ⊕  well-being ⊕  werewolf ⊕  whatcanyoudowiththis ⊕  wholeearthcatalog ⊕  wholefoods ⊕  whoppers ⊕  whosonfirst ⊕  wicketproblems ⊕  wifi ⊕  wikileaks ⊕  wikipedia ⊕  wildlife ⊕  williamgibson ⊕  williamwilkinson ⊕  willrichardson ⊕  windows ⊕  wisdom ⊕  wmmna ⊕  wordpress ⊕  words ⊕  work ⊕  workflow ⊕  workplace ⊕  workspace ⊕  world ⊕  worldbuilding ⊕  worldchanging ⊕  wow ⊕  writers ⊕  writing ⊕  yahoo ⊕  yahoonews ⊕  yearoff ⊕  youth ⊕  youtube ⊕  yvesklein ⊕  zadiesmith ⊕  zeitgeist ⊕  zerohistory ⊕  zeyneptufekci ⊕  zinio ⊕  zombies ⊕  zynga ⊕  _2012 ⊕ 

Copy this bookmark:



description:


tags: