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Category Archives: networks
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!
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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Death of the throwaway comment