Tag: Facebook

This Week in Sharing

By Malcolm Harris

01.20.11, 5:26pm Comments (0)

Here is the weekly links round-up from around the whole web. Okay, probably only part of it. As always, enjoy and feel free to leave your own links in the comments section. Read more »

Keeping New Year's Resolutions With Social Media

By Paul M. Davis

12.31.10, 2:13pm Comments (0)

Transparency isn't only the best disinfectant: it's also a pretty great way to ensure you’ll keep your word. The notion of the New Year's resolution may be eternally quixotic, but it’s also intriguing and hard to dismiss. Read more »

More Than a Check Box: Social Media and Gender

By Paul M. Davis

12.02.10, 11:54am Comments (1)

The open-source Facebook alternative Diaspora has been released upon the world (or at least a handful of test users) with a private alpha release. Read more »

This Week in Sharing

By Malcolm Harris

10.07.10, 11:41am Comments (1)

There are never enough hours in the day to cover everything worth sharing, so here are some stories we didn't have time to explore:

The Seattle Times reports on colleges successfully using car-sharing to cut down on camp. Read more »

A Tree That Tweets

By Paul M. Davis

09.24.10, 10:49am Comments (0)

It sounds like a premise for a bad M. Night Shyamalan movie: a tree that broadcasts its activities and “feelings” across social networks. But in fact it’s reality. Read more »

When Socially Curated News Fails

By Paul M. Davis

08.06.10, 12:36pm Comments (4)

The venerable social news service Digg has a problem. As Alternet reports, a team of conservative users have been gaming the system for years through an organized effort to vote down news items contradictory to their ideology. Recently, Jezebel. Read more »

More Fuel for the Diaspora*

By Rick Smith

05.14.10, 9:55am Comments (9)

At first, I didn't get what all the fuss was about. So Facebook uses some of the data users post online to make revenue? That's what Google's AdSense does right? Actually, not quite. Read more »

Can Diaspora* Take Down Facebook?

By Paul M. Davis

05.13.10, 2:23pm Comments (9)

Can four college students take down Facebook? If there was ever a time to try, it would be now.
Neal Gorenflo discussed the growing Facebook backlash earlier this week, and offered his wish list for an alternative social network. Read more »

Is Mobile Technology Bringing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart? Two Views

By Jeremy Adam Smith

10.22.09, 5:12pm Comments (4)

I involuntarily love and admire the work of memoirist Richard Rodriquez, especially when I disagree with him. He has a beautiful, elliptical, elegiac essay in the November issue of Harper's magazine that is, naturally, available only in print. Read more »

Generation Open

By Chris Messina

09.17.09, 12:44pm Comments (0)

Back in March, I spent the weekend in DC at TransparencyCamp, an unconference focused on government transparency and open access to sources of federal data. Read more »