The New York Observer: In the Battle Between Facebook and MySpace, A Digital ‘White Flight’
FlowingData: Rise of the Data Scientist
Coding Horror: Code: It’s Trivial
Zero Intelligence Agents: How to: Use Python and Social Network Analysis to Find New Twitter Friends
Two links from Jon Pincus of Microsoft Research:
research.microsoft.com, January 2005: Jonathan D. Pincus,: Computer Science is Really a Social Science
Jon Pincus, on his blog, sharing the recent news regarding danah boyd joining Microsoft Research’s New England Lab
Tim O’Reilly: Radical Transparency: The New Federal IT Dashboard (and check out the site itself at it.usaspending.gov)
Data.gov iteratively grows from 47 to 100,000 data feeds (source Atrios)
EveryBlock blog: EveryBlock source code released
Tim Bray: “Hello World” for Open Data – Tim Bray reviews, and is inspired by, happenings in Vancover.
And locally SEPTA has started to work with Google to help riders plan trips online
A huge round of thanks needs to go to the folks behind iSepta for showing just what is possible.
This and more was discussed at this year’s Personal Democracy Forum – which I missed, which I hopefully won’t next year. Sounds like it was a great event.
Related:
O’Reilly radar: John Geraci: The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System
Ignite Philly 2: Geoff DiMassi and Paul Wright “Open Source Philadelphia”
New Yorker: Malcolm Gladwell: Priced to Sell – a scathing review of Wired’s Chris Anderson’s new book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” and the concepts promoted within.
NYTimes: Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia – the NYTimes coordinated with Wikipedia staff to keep a factual event from appearing on the service.
Say Everything: Chapter One: Putting Everything Out There [Justin Hall]: a review of Justin Hall’s history and his efforts on the Web. How they laid the foundation for all that came later.
NiemanJournalismLab: Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment
Scott Rosenberg: Salon.com IPO: It was ten years ago today
Chris Anderson (not Wired’s): We’ve Been Living Through a Twitter Revolution for the Last 10 Years
I’m really looking forward to reading Scott Rosenberg’s “Say Everything”.
I’m sure “Say Everything” will be a book I can share with others (which I do with “Dreaming in Code”) to provide them insight into why I do some of the things I do and why I get so damn passionate about them.
Writing a book on blogging’s history and how it related to the Web, Internet, and society is a difficult task. Based upon excerpts I’ve read so far, Rafe’s review of the first half, and reading his fantastic “Dreaming in Code”, I know this book is going to be terrific and insightful.
Speaking of blogging, I got to agree with Rafe – the most awesome thing about blogging *is* “corresponding with so many of the people I met through blogging back then here, on Twitter, and elsewhere.”.
Absolutely.
Thank you Web.
Good guides for those that need a quick dive:
Wikipedia: CIDR notation. Terse. Without understanding of IP addressing and subnets worthless. So the following give a better big picture:
Cisco: IP Addressing and Subnetting for New Users
MediaWiki’s guide to blocking ranges: Help:Range blocks
Yahoo! Small Business Help: What is CIDR?
Microsoft: Understanding TCP/IP addressing and subnetting basics
Jaffe Juice: Blogging is dying and Twitter is to blame
Chris Pirillo: Are Personal Home Pages and Blogs Dying?
ProBlogger: Blogging vs Twitter
Sysan Mernit: Thought-blogging versus twitter/lifestream/community
Linux.com: Abandoiung your blog for Twitter
As for me, I’m keeping the blog.
Thought provoking, conversation starting, and probably controversial counting upon who you are, check out the whole single page comic.
The terms ‘social media’ and ‘social software’ may have been useful for educational purposes a few years ago when development or business leaders were not versed in the changing nature of media or online tool sets, but no longer. Both terms have long ago been appropriated by marketers. The term ‘social media expert’ means that person is a marketer. Nothing more, nothing less. And nothing against marketers.
So first, I am simply renaming all ‘social media’ and ‘social software’ tags across the site to ‘internet’. I will do the same with the site category (that requires a proper 301 redirect) hopefully later tonight.