Archive for the 'social networks' Category
New Social Network ncludr Makes Everyone Your Friend
March 26th, 2008Adrants - “In what is clearly a joke or some sort of clandestine promotion for the next greatest social network or some other entity, ncludr.com (get it? includer?) has launched with snarky fanfare including claims it’s “the most awesomest ultimate social network ever” with “international membership already in the billions.”
Please, no more social networks
March 19th, 2008Stefanie Olsen - “The consensus here at the Dow Jones Web Ventures conference this week seems to be that the world doesn’t need another social network.”
Social Media Burnout
March 16th, 2008Eric Benderoff - “I have social media fatigue.”
Teens and Social Media
December 19th, 2007Pew - “The use of social media gains a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media.”
The twopointohians are going to eat this up.
Be Our Friends
December 15th, 2007Cliff Landis - “Social networking sites: Getting friendly with our users”
Dark Side of Social Networks
December 15th, 2007New York Times - “Like most mobs, the one that pursued Megan Meier was cruel and unrelenting. Its members gathered on the social networking site MySpace and called Megan a liar, a fat whore and worse.”
Hype?
December 15th, 2007CNET - “Many companies are thinking about how they can take advantage of social-networking technology, but analysts at Gartner are warning against getting caught up in the hype.”
Kickin’ It Old School
November 23rd, 2007Laura M. Holson - “A Different Kind of Networking”
Study on SN’s in Schools Biased?
November 17th, 2007Stefanie Olsen - “Marlboro Man in the school library?”
More here.
Social Strangers
October 16th, 2007Nina Simon - “I’ve been thinking recently about the “why” behind encouraging social interactions among strangers in museums.”
There are Friends and There are Non-Meta Friends
October 6th, 2007Joel Stein - “Until we can build some kind of social network where we can present our true, flawed selves–perhaps some genius can invent something that takes place in a house over dinner with wine–I say we strip down our online communities to just the important parts.” (via)
See also, Ballad in Plain E - “I [...]
AntiSocial Networking
July 24th, 2007Annoyed Librarian - “If there were an antisocial networking site, I might join, but what would be the point.”
Keeping Up With Social Networking Tools
June 25th, 2007Connie Crosby has a new piece up on LLRX.
She quotes me as dubbing “Time Suck 2.0″. I checked and it seems I’m the only one to have blogged that phrase. Cool. Consider it trademarked (kidding!)
BTW, Ask.com is broken too. Lots of spam. Ick.
I’m totally unTwittered lately, and that will probably [...]
Get off MySpace
April 15th, 2007Should schools have rules that disallow teachers the use social sites?
School officials in Scituate are proposing to direct teachers and staff about appropriate use of social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, raising questions about whether school systems should interfere with employees’ personal activities.
Social Networking Technologies: A “Poke” for Campus Services
March 23rd, 2007The latest issue of Educause has a doosie of an article that peobably needs more than a quick perusal (which is what I gave it):
"[H]ow can campus professionals, especially those in student and academic services, learn to use these technologies to think differently about communicating with students and about facilitating learning? What aspects of Facebook, [...]