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Interesting yet slightly morbid. Does immortalizing the dead on a social media platform that by definition requires interaction among the living to fulfill its purpose reveal yet another narcissistic impulse? For whom are we writing? Obviously not the dead (unless you can make some sort of argument that they check their feeds from the afterlife). For ourselves? If that were the case, we could just as easily sit at home and mourn a photograph. It seems more like this type of mourning is much more performative and public than that...

Dare to do this? "Paul Miller gave up the Internet at midnight Tuesday. Miller, who was and still is a senior editor at a tech news site called The Verge, plans to stay offline for a full year. When he needs to post something to the website that employs him, he will hand his editors a thumb drive with his stories saved in offline files. If he needs to look up a phone number, he'll get on the phone and start calling people -- who hopefully know people who know the person that he's trying to reach for an interview."

DO IT!

At first I wasn't sure if this would relate to any of our discussions/readings/principles of design, but I think a lot of us in class are Mac users. A prophesy with any validity or not, it's something to think about for future investments.

A brief history of storytelling.

Twitter etiquette - knowing when to be personal and when to be professional - or recognizing the lack of a line between the two.

A list of the heavy open-source hitters for audio playback and editing.

Sound cloud looks really interesting, but they host all of the content and you just send out links to share it. In order to play content on your page, you need a mess of java script commands and I have no idea how to link that to your content... Guess that's why all the bands pay big bucks to have someone build their site for them.

Alright. Thanks, Ben.

I really need to try out Pinterest. I have heard great things about it! PS. Maybe these people do not lead the lives of grad students? So perhaps they have more time? haha

Martina, I did not understand Pinterest for a long time - had an account and never used it! Then a friend took 2 minutes to show me how it works - and I've been hooked ever since. Regardless of anything any critic or fan says of Pinterest, it's a pretty fantastically brilliant website. (And a lot fun!)

I'm absolutely addicted to Pinterest, much more so than Facebook! Pinterest and Diigo seem to have operate on a similar premises: social bookmarking with an attractive user interface.

Fascinating recent plagiarism case from the New Yorker. Spy novel written by author who was "undercover" in the sense that he was secretly writing everything with passages lifted from other novels. 

What strikes me as especially interesting about this book review is that it emphasizes and leads with the buzz surrounding its predominantly digital publication instead of the controversy about the popularity of hardcore erotic literature for women.

This is a critique of comments that users make in response to news items. It speaks to some of the readings.

Evan Williams, CEO of twitter, discusses how users influenced the evolution of twitter.

Johanna Blakely discusses gender and social media in relation to demographics and women's popular use of social media.

This article is extremely interesting as we think about online "spaces" because the author describes how he pictures the literal "space" of each social networking site he uses.

Below you'll see a link to Code for America. Here is a related TED talk.

This article explains how location-based mobile applications can collaborate with marketing teams to provide location-specific advertisements for users.

This article examines the use of emotional attachment and building of unique stories to create buzz through social media sites like twitter and facebook.

A smart political article about the relation between communication and capitalism. Useful especially on the way technical networks both present themselves as political and foreclose the political.

How mobile applications are extending the power of the net.

This is an article that responds to some of the issues brought up last class (March 20) about employers asking for facebook passwords.

Is taking from Wikipedia plagiarism? This French author cut and paste freely. This is interesting since it's such a constant argument with students in 101 and 102.