Social Networking

Crowdsourcing For Creative People

June 2, 2010
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Crowdsourcing is a rather elaborate sounding term that actually refers to something that is both simple and quite powerful.

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Facebook and Friendship

April 24, 2010

People, in effect, opt in to a relationship with you. And the flip side of this is that they can also opt out of that relationship at any moment.

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History: 140 Characters At A Time

April 16, 2010

Nothing has made me quite as self-conscious about tweeting as the knowledge that those tweets will be recorded for all of time within the Library of Congress. But I do actually believe in the logic behind the decision.

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Hide Annoying Facebook Applications In Your News Feed

January 31, 2010
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I’ve often griped about Facebook. But the truth is once you deny access to 90% of the Facebook applications and hide anything ending with ‘Ville’ from your news feed, it gets back to being friends sharing thoughts and images with each other. And that is something I can appreciate.

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Are Online Friends “Real Friends”?

June 25, 2009

I understand the desire to differentiate between those relationships in daily life and those that exist online. I understand that there are different dimensions and dynamics to both. What I struggle with though is the implication that friendships formed online are in some way inferior, trivial or ‘unreal.’

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