‘Facebook fatigue’?
While I am part of the Facebook bashers (well, bashers of the current Facebook craze), I always feel that I am dead wrong, since so many folks are still signing...
Category: The Narrative
Twitter Stats: Relationship Distribution
Finally found out that Twitter has been publishing a few stats on usage.* Pretty interesting. One that got me was the distribution of how many people per user i...
Notes on notes of essays someone else never wrote
I’ve heard a lot about Matt Web through those closest to him, but never really met him. Matt is half of an interesting and insane design duo, Schulze &...
BioMed Central article on Semantic Web and biomedicine
What got me thinking all over again about the Semantic Web and how to find, navigate, recombine, and contribute to the flow of knowledge was a brief series of m...
Fred Stutzman on the future of social networks
Fred has written a ton of great articles on the nature of social networks, and what works and doesn’t. This article (link below) gives me pause to my thin...
Doc Searls: The World Live Web
Doc Searls has a really good article on the state of the Web (from last fall).* He talks about the ‘static’ Web and the ‘living’ W...
Burrito panelists judge local chains’ burritos – Boston.com
“Emerging sub-culture”? My ass. I’ve been chowing down on burritos for a very long time, along with many others. And in my day, it was hard to...
Hmm, more on Facebook, social objects, personas, and so forth
Stefan’s comment to my post on Facebook ("Facebook is a persistent Julie McCoy") got me thinking: I regularly explain to people about how users ...
We’re moving into an oral culture on so many levels
We’re rapidly approaching an oral culture. The fluidity of the Web seems to have many aspects of an oral culture in terms of how we can interact with so m...
How to teach a service the connections I have in my mind
I’ve been a big proponent of teaching machines by doing. I don’t mean that the machine is ‘watching’ my move and guessing what is going ...