Brian Russell, a community-tech organizer who Ive known for a number of years, has recently opened a coworking space in Carrboro, NC. Coworking is a new form of shared office space that blends a coff...
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If you frequent Yahoo News, youve likely noticed the site has been redesigned. Overall, the design is clean, information-rich, and provides a nice update to one of my favorite news sources. Along wi...
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Even though it feels like the Fall semester has just started, registration for Spring 2009 is underway. Ill be teaching Online Social Networks, with the class meeting on Monday evenings from 6-8:30. ...
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It now appears that the Tastes, Ties and Times dataset has been identified. According to privacy scholar Michael Zimmer, the dataset of Facebook profiles is from Harvard College. In my original post...
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On Monday, October 6, We are pleased to welcome the first guest lecturer of the semester to Technologies of Friendship. Vance Ricks, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Guilford College, will delive...
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Via the Berkman Center, news of a Facebook dataset now available to the general public. I havent written up the necessary research statement to access the data, but the publicly-available codebook pr...
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Just a reminder - this Friday well be hosting a productivity seminar in 208 Manning Hall, from 10-11:30AM (Before CRADLE). All students, faculty and friends are invited. To find out more information ...
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Abe Crystal and I are teaming up to bring an academic productivity workshop to UNC. From 10-11:30 on the morning of Friday, October 3, were going to open the floor for ten-minute talks on productivit...
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Microsoft Research has launched a new, interdisciplinary research center - MSR New England - in Cambridge, MA. Ive found out about this from danah boyd, who is joining the center. danah writes: Jenn...
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Some very interesting news - IBM has launched a Center for Social Software in Cambridge, MA. According to IBM, the goal of the IBM Center is to create a new type of collaborative environment to tackl...
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This will be of interest to many Unit Structures readers - the Pew Internet and American Life project has released a new report on the gaming behaviors of young adults. The report was led by Amanda L...
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Last evening was the third meeting of my Technologies of Friendship class. While Ive been meaning to blog about the class each week, this post will have to serve as a catch-up. Were actually not tha...
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Two tips that have made my life better in the past day: I cant stand Google suggest. Even though Ive set the preference to make it go away 1,000 times, it keeps returning. I think something with Fir...
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Nicole Ellison highlights a new Facebook controversy - wether the site is a social networking site (a place to connect with and make new friends) or a social utility (a site designed to reinforce real...
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Googles Marisa Mayer has written a post about the future of search. There are a lot of non-trivial problems in some of the scenarios she describes, but I see others - such as location-assisted search...
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Ive really enjoyed Chris Messinas two recent posts on Chrome. His background (Mozilla, Flock) and experience thinking about next generation UIs and UEs is on fine display; I particularly enjoy his re...
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Via Vowe.net, the Google Chrome Privacy Policy (scroll down, soon to be located here). It appears that Chrome will follow a pattern similar to the Google Toolbar - that is, all browsing behavior is s...
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Sometime this afternoon, bloggers discovered the Myspace page of Sadie, the apparent sister of Levi (link now offline), the reported father-to-be of Bristol Palins child. Bristol Palin, daughter of M...
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Ive recently moved to Firefox 3, and Im pretty pleased with the performance. Firefox 3 feels snappy, seems to handle JS and memory leaks well, and is all-around pretty impressive. Here are my tweaks:...
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When describing Twitter, I use a number of analogies.Most commonly, I think of Twitter as something like a slow-motion chatroom, or even a collection of away messages.Ive got another one to add to thi...
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