Tag: social networks

20 Results

| February 28, 2011

resistance

Devin Friedman writes about social media; I need to quote at length: [Silicon Valley] isn’t just the place where...

| January 30, 2011

Particularize

As I mentioned the other day, the Shirky/Doctorow thesis is that the internet in general and social media in particular...

| July 14, 2010

algorithmic culture

I’ve written here about my interest in Amazon’s recently implemented “Popular Highlights” feature, which lets...

| June 30, 2010

creation and consumption

From Megan Garber’s largely positive, thoughtful review of Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus: But the problem with...

| May 27, 2010

the dichotomy

Clay Shirky: There are two principal effects of the Internet on privacy. The first is to shrink personal expression to...

| May 25, 2010

simpler = privater?

Technology Review: “On stage this morning at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Facebook vice president of...

| May 19, 2010

Facing Facebook lock-in

A long time ago (in internet terms anyway) I explained why I was an early adopter and then an early abandoner of...

| January 25, 2009

the sound of silence

There appears to be no end in sight of essays deploring what Modern Technology is depriving us of. Some of these are...