Tag: networks

Mapping a World of Human Activity

By Paul M. Davis

11.09.11, 11:56am Comments (4)

A Cartography of the Anthropocene maps the various ways that global humanity connects and is interdependent. 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 »

Facebook's Gone Rogue & The Network We Need Now

By Neal Gorenflo

05.10.10, 2:54pm Comments (17)

Ryan Singel, a blogger for Wired, threw down the gauntlet on Friday calling for an open alternative to Facebook. Two days earlier Thomas Baekdal, of Baekdal.com, wrote a passionate analysis of why the now overly-complicated Facebook is doomed. Read more »

COMING SOON: A Declaration of Interdependence

By Neal Gorenflo

10.26.09, 6:04pm Comments (0)

Tiffany Schlain, the founder of the Webby Awards, is directing a feature length documentary, Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence, about the "visible and invisible connections between the major issues of our time -- the environment, popul. Read more »