Acquiring data about FB users with extremely tight privacy settings via their observed propagated effects on other, more accessible users. Telling.

Here's my talk from dConstruct in Brighton a few weeks back. My goodness, I do go on. This is an absolutely sprawling talk! Check the tags for some idea of content.

Caterina, more than just about anyone else in the industry, knows what she's talking about when she discusses social permissioning. Her way, forged in the heat of actual, hardwon experience (where n = large) avoids the pitfalls of reification I'm so dismayed by.

Echo chambers and their creation.

Quoted for truth. But I thought *Twitter* was "the platform of choice for the web's least interesting narcissists - and the slow-witted woodland creatures who enjoy grooming their fur."

School bullying, 21st century-style: Facebook groups, cameraphone-recorded beatdowns, hopes the school bus surveillance camera will vindicate you...

STRONG AGREE

Saffo: “The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded." YES.