My final thoughts on Social Software Affordances…
• What is ’social’ about social software?
It connects people together.
• How is the notion of community being redefined by social software?
Distances between people, both temporal and spatial, are becoming less of a factor.
• What aspects of our humanity stand to gain or suffer as a result […]

I’m glad *completing* the Issue Entrepreneurship project wasn’t the point, because I feel like I didn’t even really get it off the ground! I kept waiting to post an update, waiting for bigger news to relay, hoping a breakthrough in involvement was just around the corner.
But that never happened. From the time […]

In Questioning Technology, Andrew Feenberg argues that since the way we use technology is so strongly tied to our social structure, there can be no serious political change without a corresponding change in technology. To oversimplify, in order to change the world, we must first change the way we view and use technology as an […]

I finally finished the Paul Dourish book, Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction. I thought it was insightful, and it got me thinking differently about the tools I use every day– from my cell phone to sticky notes to the clusters of icons on my computer screen.
For example, […]

If you haven’t heard yet, this week is International Education Week. At least once a day I get an email telling me about some event on campus in recognition of International Education. AND with each email I’m reminded how far behind I am in my Issue Entrepreneurship Project!
I’ve been doing some research and […]

Barbasi’s book Linked has been called revolutionary in the way it treats networks, but when considering Web 2.0 does it not go far enough?
The NYT article ‘Folksonomy’ Carries Classifieds Beyond SWF and ‘For Sale’ led me to the 43things site I mentioned in my last entry. This article describes 3 specific sites in an […]

Someone once told me that the definition for “good” art is… art you wish you had made yourself.
Does the same hold true for websites? I just came across a website I wish I had made myself– 43things is simple in idea but huge in the impact it can have on peoples’ lives. You […]

I’ve been racking my brain for a while trying to come up with a social cause to stand behind for my Issue Entrepreneurship Project. Many possibilities pop into my head, but I keep dismissing causes as either (1) being already over-represented, (2) being irrelevant or trivial in the grand scheme of things, or (3) […]

I haven’t tried it yet, but a new service lets you call a free 1-800 number for business and residential listings, anywhere in the country. I know I’ll be using this from my cell phone, where 411 would cost me a buck. I’m so cheap, I’d rather wander around lost for an hour than […]

Several of the CCTE tagged del.icio.us links over the past few weeks led me to articles about social book-marking. (It didn’t take me long to realize the irony in using del.icio.us to learn about social bookmarking!) EDUCAUSE’s 7 Things You Should Know About… article lists social bookmarking as #7 on their list, and […]