links for 2010-08-25

“they’re just finite (indeed, crap­py) lit­tle pre­texts – along­side oth­er pre­texts like gift-giv­ing, sharing/curating, commenting/expressing – to help us engage in the poten­tial­ly infi­nite social com­mu­ni­ca­tion that some­thing like Face­book (or more gen­er­al­ly the inter­net) affords.” One of many gems to be found in this elab­o­rate Won­der­lab report from Mr. Kane.