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Who gets to be a micro-elite?
Images source: Peer to Patent A month ago, I heard Beth Novack from the New York Law School give a talk at the Symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace. She is working on an interesting project called the Peer to … Continue reading
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Social Networks, Academic Rockstars, Micro-celebrity
Image source: Amazon.com I love the idea nanocelebrity or micro-celebrity, where people are famous among a small group, but far from being a household name. Academic conferences are often a great place to find micro-celebrity. In the US, few academic … Continue reading
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Passages: getting close to interactive fiction
Aleks sent me this link to the game “Passages” a couple of weeks ago, which also got picked up on the blogosphere. It’s definitely worth spending ten minutes playing the game. I’ll try not to spoil it too much, but … Continue reading
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Linking as a gesture of kindness.
Image source: flickr David Weinberger gave a description of a link in a panel last year at the Hyperlinked Society Conference. A link is a conscious act of generosity. These acts is moral, and they form the architecture of the … Continue reading
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Fidelity in Facebook.
Image source: USGS Yesterday, Facebook was frequently mentioned at the Symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace conference, but I’m trying to figure out what is the value my Facebook network. For a free service, Facebook is getting expensive. Not just … Continue reading
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I’m back and my brain is full.
I just got back from a couple of days outside New York. I had Friday off, so instead of Christmas shopping , cleaning house, and going to yoga, I went to a couple of great conferences. Yesterday, I went the … Continue reading
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Printing for the ages
After many years, I finally made it to a dorkbot meeting, a tech meetup before there were meetups. One of the three presenters was Ted Johnson, a great tech guy and overall hacker. He showed a handful of projects, but … Continue reading
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Verizon set to open their wireless network in 2008.
Things just got really interesting in the mobile / wireless world. Verizon announced that they will over two categories of service by the end of 2008. One will continue to be its bundled handset service, and the other will be … Continue reading
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Controlling the Internet
Images source: Wikimedia Commons, Matt Brim The October issue of Discovery magazine has an article that piqued my interest, entitled, “This Man Wants to Control the Internet. And you should let him.” The man is Caltech professor, John Doyle, an … Continue reading
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My network is worth $1,195,537
I guess that is something to be thankful for the day before Thanksgiving. Gigaom is linking to an Xing site, which calculates the value of your network. Mine is over a million dollars. You enter in some demographic information and … Continue reading
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