Archive for the ‘online communities’ Category
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
An interesting pair of complementary articles have today sprung to my attention from my unfiltered and rapidly growing twitstorms.
First, Readwriteweb carries a story about the research of Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. Mayer-Schönberger has synthesized research into open source communities, arguing that radical ideas suffer in networks where there is a greater abundance ...
Posted in culture & society, online communities, open source, political economy | 1 Comment »
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
I need to retract a decision I made based on seemingly false news.
Just over a month ago I posted an announcement that Simulacre Media would be removing its entire catalog from the Last.fm service due to the imposition of user fees in countries other than the US, UK, and Germany. ...
Posted in file sharing, marketing, music, online communities, open source | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Last.fm (aka CBS) has finally thrown in the towel on free music. Well, I'm not going with them. It's not that Last.fm sucks; they still offer a great service, one that *might* be worth the subscription fee, even. But for those of us who are trying to give music away ...
Posted in creative industries, culture industries, indie, internet, labels, music, online communities, social networks | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
So I'm diving straight into my comprehensives now. I'm building lists and checking them twice (and more). While building these reading lists is in many ways a very personal journey, I've decided to blog about the process so that I might get feedback from unexpected locales, harnessing the "wisdom of ...
Posted in 4s, Actor network theory, PhD studies, SCOT, STS, appropriation, art, blogs, comprehensive exams, creative industries, critical constructivism, culture & society, culture industries, fandom, internet, online communities, open source, political economy, social bookmarking, social networks, social web, sociology of art, taste, technology, theory, wikia | 2 Comments »
Monday, December 17th, 2007
What is the relation between the technology of single sign-on and community mobilization?
There are two approaches to - or models for - the twin issues of convenience and security in our current era of mass content browsing: (1) single sign-on (OpenID, MicroID) and (2) content aggregation (Jaiku, Pageflakes, Readr). Both ...
Posted in SNS, content aggregation, critical constructivism, culture & society, internet, mobile, online communities, political economy, single sign-on, social bookmarking, social networks, technology | No Comments »
Friday, October 19th, 2007
I presented at AOIR today as part of a panel on Music and Sound. Here's the PDF of my talk, complete with notes.
I did this with an extreme headache, and a growing sense that I need to, as my friend and colleague Flo articulated it the other day, "coccoon" myself ...
Posted in AOIR 8, P2P, SNS, conferences, critical constructivism, culture & society, fandom, file sharing, indie, internet, music, online communities, open source, political economy, social networks, taste, technology, theory | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 12th, 2007
I'm blogging this from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Montréal. We (Roy Bendor, Jack Post, Peter-Paul Verbeek and I) just completed our panel on Bruno Latour ("Translating Latour") and I'm now in a very interesting panel about "Problematizing Technological Appropriation". My first impression is that ...
Posted in 4s, P2P, conferences, critical constructivism, culture & society, file sharing, internet, music, online communities, political economy, social networks, taste, technology, theory | 1 Comment »
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Ah, I see the baldfaced ignorance of an administration that invades Afghanistan and Iraq has trickled into the sphere of Internet regulation as well (Thanks to Flo for pointing me here).. To wit:
"Regulators should be careful not to impose regulations that could limit consumer choice and investment in broadband facilities" ...
Posted in culture & society, file sharing, internet, law, online communities, policy, political economy, technology | No Comments »
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Nice to be back in the swim of things. I just put a final report out the door on a research project that I'd been working on for 14 months. It was a difficult project - one that didn't always go as planned, that got intermittently sidelined by other events ...
Posted in SNS, babies, blogs, critical constructivism, culture & society, ethnography, events, mobile, music, online communities, personal life, social bookmarking, social networks, taste, teaching, technology, theory, wikia | No Comments »
Friday, August 17th, 2007
Tonight and tomorrow I'll be mind-moshing with local geekerati at Barcamp Vancouver. If you're signed up to be there too, come up and innerdooce yourself (you already know me by sight, or can figure it out via flickr or facebook, can't you?). I always like to meet readers and fellow ...
Posted in SNS, blogs, culture & society, ethnography, events, film, flickr, mobile, online communities, social networks, wikia | 3 Comments »
