Month: July 2007

What If…

….email apps didn’t consider reading and writing separate modes? …you could post to your blog, from mine? …your online profile was filled out by your friends? …Popularity was measured by the size of the group of people that are everywhere you are. …only robots exchanged messages on Twitter. …I stopped getting distracted by hypotheticals? UPDATE […]

Kris Takes the Un out of Unconference

As much as I like Kris, I disagree with his How to save your unconference post. It’s #2 that gives it away: “Awesome hallway conversations” If you’re having awesome hallway conversations, it’s not an unconference. It’s a regular conference. Sorry. A good unconference has the awesome conversations within the sessions. Otherwise – why bother with […]

OurSpace – One Small Step in Commons

Who would really enjoy this book? An art history, marketing, or communications professor who doesn’t yet grok the significance and importance of Creative Commons. In all honestly, considering the 2007 publication date of the OurSpace by Christine Harold, I was hoping for a deep dive into all the culture under the Creative Commons license. Harold […]

Twitter Ends Friendship

In a move that should rock the ‘social network space’, Twitter just removed the vague, confusing, juvenile label of ‘friend‘, replacing it with the more descriptive ‘following‘ 1. Aside from the label being more accurate 2 it creates a nice symmetry with ‘followers‘. You and I could say ‘friend‘ is the overlap between the two, […]