Category: Social network
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Internet Math sent by one of my students
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Barbara Iverson
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Local online news sources forming networks
This is what we are looking to do in Chicago. Contact me if you have a Chicago-centric publication and want to meet to talk about forming a network. With a little help from training at Knight Digital Media Center, The Sacramento Bee launches a lively network of sites and blogs that connects its users to…
Barbara Iverson
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Check-In Fatigue was my reaction to SXSW, too.
Image by waynesutton12 via Flickr TechCrunch blogger M.G. Siegler was at SXSW and reports on something I experienced too at SXSW. “Check-in fatigue” happens when you are trying to use location-based software to let your friends know where you are in real-space. So in theory, you arrive somewhere, and quickly “check-in” via your smartphone. You…
Barbara Iverson
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Content creator, Brand thyself
In fact, the next-wave Tarantinos are in Canada already — coddling not prospective buyers, but concierges, who just might steer people to promotional parties and screenings. “These guys have figured it out,” Barry Avrich, a member of the festival’s governing board, said of the do-it-yourself crowd. “They’re into all the cool hotels, to get the…
Barbara Iverson
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How Collaborative Social Networking is being used – AP and Sotomayor Nomination
MixedInk. and AP put up site where anyone could weigh-in on the case for Sotomayor and the case against Sotomayor. As with all MixedInk collaborative projects, it has a start, write until, and rate until day. These were July 12, July 17th, and July 17th at midnite, respectively. So, starting on July 12th, users were…
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PoliticsBlog: Obama in Ghana
Image by Monde Perso via Flickr From Politcs Online comes this cool heads-up. Now, if only our local pols would do this when they have information to share. What have Illinois pols got to fear from this? Let them answer that question. Mr. Mayor? What about transparency like this in the City? In preparation for…
Barbara Iverson
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Pirate Party Canada Bound?
Image via Wikipedia WINNIPEG — After scoring a surprise electoral win in Sweden and getting high-profile support in Germany, The Pirate Party’s next port of call may be Canada, where a so-far small band of buccaneers are hoping to send copyright restrictions to Davy Jones’s locker. Right now, they’re a handful of loosely-organized individuals spread…
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BusinessWeek story explores sociology behind social networks
So, how does research on how we socialize and relate to each other interact with marketing and advertising? Remember, McLuhan says that new technologies disrupt the established hierarchies and relationships. Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships via Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships – BusinessWeek. http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
Barbara Iverson
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The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist
Image via Wikipedia What mainly goes up, therefore, is not the core network but the number of casual contacts that people track more passively. This corroborates Dr Marsden’s ideas about core networks, since even those Facebook users with the most friends communicate only with a relatively small number of them. Put differently, people who are…
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Facebook has a new look which changes the way the social networking program works in some significant ways. One person said, “Why is facebook trying to be twitter?” A word to the wise– take a look at what you are sharing and the controls you have over who you share content with, before you send…
Barbara K Iverson 