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Sharkbook and Twitnets

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

I'm going to call it now - Facebook has officially jumped the shark. This comes with apologies to those who thought FB died hours ago, when it made another attack-user-privacy-or-otherwise-degrade-user-happiness move. And gosh darnit, if this isn't the type of action the FB population was just starting to get used to. This ...

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Single Sign-On and Content Aggregation: a Preliminary Analysis of their Potential in Facilitating Progressive Social Change

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 ...

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Technical Micropolitics and Musical Amateurs

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, conferences, critical constructivism, culture & society, fandom, file sharing, indie, internet, music, online communities, open source, P2P, political economy, SNS, social networks, taste, technology, theory | 1 Comment »

Ex-Perry Mental Geekery

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 babies, blogs, critical constructivism, culture & society, ethnography, events, mobile, music, online communities, personal life, SNS, social bookmarking, social networks, taste, teaching, technology, theory, wikia | No Comments »

Beercamp Vancouver

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 blogs, culture & society, ethnography, events, film, flickr, mobile, online communities, SNS, social networks, wikia | 3 Comments »

No Book For You! Next!

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

"We're uprading." Hah. It's Down (as of 10:32 AM PDT). Now whaddll we do?

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