I came across a haunting trailer today for a documentary by (of?) Josh Harris and Ondi Timoner called We Live in Public. According to Jason Calacanis, who wrote an excellent email-turned-blog-post about the documentary’s subject matter, “It’s a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing effects of technology, a somber topic that we all need to consider [...]
As I watched my Twitter feed flutter this past weekend with amazing update after amazing update of the Personal Democracy Forum, my former adviser and mentor was there giving what apparently turned out to be a standing-ovation-worthy preso on YouTube Culture and Politics of Authenticity. The fact that he brought the house down with his [...]
Interesting research on the dynamics of online and offline social networks. Seems like our close connections undergo some pruning as time passes. You may have more Facebook friends as the years go by, but when it comes to your close friends, you lose about half and replace them with new ones after about seven years, [...]
Apparently bigwigs are beginning to realize the value of stacking their teams with social scientists and not just technically-minded engineers. To effectively carry out their global R&D 2.0 strategy, CEOs of multinationals must give themselves a target of staffing at least 40% of their R&D labs in emerging markets with sociologists and micro-economists by 2015. [...]
I don’t know why I didn’t think about it before, when I heard about the United States Department of Homeland Security searching the computer contents of returning US citizens from abroad (1, 2). I originally thought it was ludicrous, of course, watching my rights dissolve as the myth of relentless and omnipresent terror seeped further [...]
I’ve been trying to think of the best way to post this URL. I can’t really post it on my website, and there’s no place in the sidebar of my blog to throw it, so a blog post will have to suffice. A year ago, to help myself study for an anthropological theory course I [...]
On suggestion from a friend, I decided to take some time to reflect on my own values and beliefs as they pertain to social media use. In response to a Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web, created in 2007 by some of the most forefront tech evangelists, and the need for a [...]
