Monthly Archives: August 2007
Social Networks Limit Interaction
Michael Geist writes for the BBC:
Unlike the global internet, which enables virtually the entire world to connect, social networks have created very large, localised communities with far more limited international interaction.
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Facebook Sharing
New feature alert: In addition to the sharing options on the front page for each article, which offers an array of various sharing services, now when you click on a post’s title to visit its unique page, an option there will allow you to share it on the social networking site Facebook. (I had to [...]
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An Apology for Andrew Keen
Note: The link to Wikiscanner has been fixed.
I’ve been hard on Andrew Keen, though not as hard as some out there have been, who feel the Web world to be under assault by Keen’s book, The Cult of the Amateur, and feel an overwhelming need to take Keen to the mattresses.
That said, I do think his [...]
The Life and Death of Second Life
I recently wrote an article for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle on Terry Beaubois, an architect from California who is now teaching at Montana State University.
Beaubois has been involved in computers and the Internet since the beginning. He’s a Silicon Valley native who lived down the street from the garage nerds and bought from Apple when [...]
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
Playboy Offers its own Social Network