Category Archives: networks

Death of the throwaway comment

I read these articles from time to time about how people should be more aware that their online conversations might stop them getting a job sometime, e.g. Does Social Media encourage too much revelation?. And I think: is the job thing really the biggest issue when we are now having conversations online that are both permanent [...]
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Is Looking for Attention the new Paying Attention?

I have not got much patience with often-repeated phrases, even ones that made sense the first time I heard them. You often hear these days about how “passive consumers” have been replaced (as if by magic) with “active producers”. Now, quite apart from the tautological ugliness of the assignations (wouldn’t producer and consumer be sufficient?) I [...]
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Linking to comments

Earlier this evening I was reading on Mark Rayner’s blog about a new version of Rock-Paper-Scissors with 5 elements - monkey, pirate, ninja, zombie, robot. I always read the blog comments and have often been justly rewarded for this effort, as I was today. Far down the page, a poster called HB invents his own 5 [...]
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Sharing videos privately

The New York Times has an article about A Site for the Videos You Don't Want Everyone to See. The site is called VidMe, and the idea is that you can use it to share videos with the people you know and love rather than with the entire world, as is normally the case with video sharing sites.
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A Woman’s Instinct is Always Right

A lot of claims are made for the usefulness and trustworthiness of female intuition (whatever that might be). I was recently party to an online conversation where someone claimed that a woman’s first instinct was always right. It’s such an extraordinary thing to think, never mind say, but what has really started to obsess me slightly [...]
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When nobody can hear you

Last night I watched an episode of Imagine about the Berlin Philharmonic on tour in Asia. It was a fascinating look inside an institution made up of highly talented and skilled people who must work together. One woman spoke about how her husband asked her why she bothered practising so much when nobody could actually hear her!
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Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig Lessig describes two economies - the commercial one, and the amateur/social/sharing/p2p economy.
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Economics and Networks

Last week on Earshot we did a show about Telecommunciations Networks and the ways new technology is disrupting the current order and regulatory system. This is stuff I’m really interested in. John spoke to Nicholas Economides of NYU’s Stern Business School, an expert in the Economics of Networks. I spoke to Brian Capouch of St. [...]
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MySpace second for page views

GigaOM : » Big Shifts In Internet Usage
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Danah Boyd on MySpace and Friendster

Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? This is a great super-long blog entry cum essay by the super-smart Danah Boyd. She’s insightful on social software stuff. Heart.
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