How to Kill a Great Idea - Jonathan Abrams - Friendster - Socializr - 0 views
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Gary Ritzenthaler on 04 Jun 09Inc. magazine article on Abrams and what happened at Friendster
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The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine - 0 views
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This is a long article, but well worth the read - on what might be the most important technological topic facing our society.
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"Over the last several years, the problem of attention has migrated right into the center of our cultural attention. [...] Everyone still pays some form of attention all the time, of course-it's basically impossible for humans not to-but the currency in which we pay it, and the goods we get in exchange, have changed dramatically."
Internet Famous: Julia Allison and the Secrets of Self-Promotion - 0 views
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From Wired: case study of how to be a queen of self-promotion.
The new fame: Internet celebrity - CNN.com - 0 views
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" Traditional celebrity lives and dies based on raw numbers: how many magazines mention them, how many television shows feature them, how many people talk about them around the water cooler. Internet fame can be more intimate, Weinberger says, more of a personal connection between the one and the few."
Teaching journalists to read | Analysis & Opinion | - 0 views
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"journalistic entities - newspapers, magazines, websites, and, yes, Columbia J-school itself - have to start putting much more emphasis on reading, as opposed to writing."
Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet - 0 views
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Article on the different strategies of Google v. Facebook and the different strategies of mining biographical and other user data as practiced by the two companies. From Wired.
CBC Books - The Book Club - Book Club podcast: Hal Niedzviecki on Peep Culture — ... - 0 views
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"In this week's podcast, Hal Niedzviecki, writer, culture commentator, editor and publisher of Broken Pencil magazine, muses on the current 'peep culture' and the future of reading."
The Internet Kid Grows Up | Newsweek.com - 0 views
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Short, basic interview with Marc Andreessen on Ning and social networks.
The Peril of Digital Fidgeting - 0 views
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Using mobile devices everywhere.
40+ Awesome Tutorials and Techniques For WordPress Theme Developers | tripwir... - 0 views
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The community around Wordpress is excellent providing free themes and plugings in nearly any form ans shape to meet your specific needs. Further on you can achieve amazing things if you know a few Wordpress hacks and have learned some basic programming skills in PHP and SQL. Many programmers have put together solutions that address need on a blog that are not offered out of the box in Wordpress and you can easily use these in your own templates. This articles provides a list of some of the most essential wordpress hacks available.
A Tool Of Revolution | Newsweek International Edition - 0 views
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discusses Facebook's use in organizing protests, when it works and when it doesn't.
Technology Review: Unmasking Social-Network Users - 0 views
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Social networks typically promise to remove "personally identifying information" before sharing this data, to protect users' privacy. But researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have found that, combined with readily available data from other online sources, this anonymized data can still reveal sensitive information about users.
Avatars: Love and Desire in the Digital Age | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com - 0 views
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"The couple has been inseparable ever since-at least in a sense. In the real world, there are oceans between them."
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: God Texts the 10 Commandments. - 0 views
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srsly.
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This was totally hilarious.
Is Urban Loneliness a Myth? -- New York Magazine - 0 views
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Manhattan is the capital of people living by themselves. But are New Yorkers lonelier? Far from it, say a new breed of loneliness researchers, who argue that urban alienation is largely a myth.
Ning's Infinite Ambition - 0 views
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Nice basic article on Ning, viral networks and the economics of SNSs from Fast Company
Facebook: More Popular Than Porn - TIME - 0 views
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report of a study on use of Facebook
The Feds To Push For 'Truth' In Social-Media Marketing - Forbes.com - 0 views
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"The FTC is planning to hold marketers liable for false statements published on blogs and social networks-meaning companies or bloggers could get sued for saying a product was good if it really wasn't."
Wired 12.01: How the Internet Invented Howard Dean - 0 views
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2004 article on how Dean used the Internet in the 2004 POTUS election.
The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"We've known for years that the Web allows for unprecedented voyeurism, exhibitionism and inadvertent indiscretion, but we are only beginning to understand the costs of an age in which so much of what we say, and of what others say about us, goes into our permanent - and public - digital files."