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A short piece on mobile social software such as Jaiku. The writer took the trouble to interview some knowledgeable people such as Jyri Engestrom and Danah Boyd.
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Roger Johansson looks at an alternative to WYSIWYG editors that allows content editors to mark up text with meaning in stead of styling. Might help in keeping sites with CMS’s behind them accessible.
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“[…] one of the design challenges for social software is in allowing groups to grow past the limitations of a single, densely interconnected community while preserving some possibility of shared purpose or participation […]”
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I’m reading lots of ‘old’ stuff on social software lately. Here’s one piece by Matt Webb that gives a taste of how cutting edge this stuff was in 2003.
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Entries for learning more on social software by Matt Webb.
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Matt Webb on classifying groups in push and pull, telic and atelic.
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“We can look at technologies that were successful without meaning to be, look at social environments that give results with being forced, and investigate what factors in the substrate made this possible. And then, hopefully, build some ourselves.”
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Post-social software seminar post.
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These descriptions of flow states sound familiar to me, mostly from practising martial arts.
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Jeffrey Veen gives some pointers on how to create a good portfolio.
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I’m rereading Shirky on social software. This piece describes how Clay’s thinking was influenced by a class he taught at NYU.
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On encoding software with political bargains and how that influences the groups and users that use it.