some round-up hockum shit

huge amount of clay stuff here.. nicely summarised too. in many ways better than the text.

the usual story of fucking up and learning the hard way.

more of 'what' than 'why' but interesting typology

RWW's summary of the forrester study on social technology use in the US.

top five ideas announced...

danah boyd talking about how we can learn from new techs. good overview of what she's all about.

For reference. A good list of sites that are doing cool stuff with government data, includes stuff for councils.

"MySpace is launching a UK MySpace Developer competition to build “the best sustainably social application,” and they’re throwing some money into the pot to incentivise developers out there. It’s obviously an attempt to kick-start more MySpace apps, but at least they are putting their money where their mouth is."

from fake to pause.... interesting take on scaling contacts

more on c4s Battlefront

streaming last.fm style 'social' radio.

Good summary, social media simply put with lots of juicy stats

Good summary of what makes social media and games appealing, with particular reference to WoW.

via russell. web first print later is obvious but takes a while to kick in for the print indst. print as an aggregator of stories and web activity [i.e. 'social' interest such as feedback, popularity and attention]. lots of scope for ripples on differe

One of the few anti-Shirky pieces around. In response to Shirky's recent talk at Web 2.0, the quote that sums this piece up is "it's not a cognitive surplus, it's a way of coping."