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deusx : wayneandwax.com » Songs as Shared Things - "Songs have always been shareable and shared. People, young and old, share songs with each other – by singing or playing them - in a variety of ways and settings, through a variety of technologies and media or other manner of accompaniment (as well
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deusx : Study concludes Wikipedians are a bunch of grumpy introverts - Ars Technica - "A study making the rounds suggests that Wikipedians may feel at home online, in part because they're grumpy introverts. But the results need to be interpreted very cautiously, as they were based on only 69 contributors from a single nation, a t
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WillPate : Five Trends That Will Transform Customer Communities
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WillPate : Attacked from Within - Detailed story about online community, need to dive deeper to evaluate
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deusx : DIY Freaks Flock to 'Hacker Spaces' Worldwide | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - "At the center of this community are hacker spaces like Noisebridge, where like-minded geeks gather to work on personal projects, learn from each other and hang out in a nerd-friendly atmosphere. Like artist collectives in the '60s and '70s
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deusx : Dan Kennedy: To survive, newspapers must engage more people in civic life | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - "Which brings me to what is by far the greatest challenge facing local newspapers and websites today. Serving the community isn't enough. If journalists don't succeed at expanding the community of people who are interested and take part in
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Andy Baio : The Economist on Dunbar's number in Facebook - featuring data extracted from Dr. Cameron Marlow
Rod Begbie : The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist - Good Economist article about how "the Dunbar number" relates to online social networks, with some interesting stats about friend groups on Facebook. [via] #
WillPate : The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist
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WillPate : Albert-László Barabási & James Fowler discuss social networks and society
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nelson : About Ask Metafilter - Nice article explaining the great advice website
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nelson : moot of 4chan - Neat profile of the guy behind the unruly bulletin board community
Andy Baio : Washington Post profile of 4chan's moot - they spend four pages in backstory, leaving the interesting personal stuff for the last page
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nelson : HIV Denial in the Internet Era - Review of how the Internet creates a community of nutjobs who argue HIV doesn't cause AIDS
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9 month ago
Linkorama : new marketing summit - community platforms panel
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Mapping out your access to the real credit system - "The work we all have to do now is to chart this out for ourselves. Each of us has such a world. Each organization has such a world. By charting it out, we will start to see what we have to do and who we have to know to bring back the power of this s
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9 month ago
Linkorama : CRM News: Trends: - I was actually trying to argue that we shouldn't have Chief Community Officers and instead a more decentralized process specific authority to accomplish the same
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10 month ago
deusx : What Mozilla Means to Me at Toolness - Among other things, here's why I'm not too stressed about Google Chrome. Also, why Mozilla is unlike any other company I've ever worked for. "Over 180 million users worldwide, Over 5000 community-contributed extensions Over 50 localiza
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Social Software, Community, and Organization: Where Practice Meets Process - Shared experience, not just shared information, is fundamental to the social networks underlying collaboration and community. Many, if not most, employees don’t only need to get to know one another through reputational systems, like who tags whom or rat
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11 month ago
philgyford : BuddyPress " About BuddyPress - "The idea of BuddyPress is to take a standard vanilla installation of WordPress MU and turn it into something that represents more of a community building tool, or niche social network." (via Oblomovka)
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11 month ago
deusx : MICROCOWORKING - "You are invited to microcowork (e.g. work together, or alone but in the presence of others) at any of the times and locations on the calendar. You're likely to see logista, vaguery, edwardvielmetti, bkerr, mitten…"
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11 month ago
deusx : deliciouslymad: Let's hear it for the... girl! - "THANKS SO MUCH, BRITTA, FOR ALL YOUR EXCELLENT HELP!" No longer working with Britta was one of the big sad bits of my leaving Yahoo!
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11 month ago
Linkorama : Wealth of Networks - a semi-account - I'm really honored that John Varney would refer to me in this way
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11 month ago
Richard Rutter : Managing community in media requires a 3-pronged approach - Great article from Meg Pickard of the Guardian.
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gleuschk : About disXover | disXover.org - social networking for scientists, built around the arxiv
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12 month ago
Linkorama : Online Community Unconference 2008: Wiki Now Open - The wiki for the Online Community Unconference 2008 is now open to all for reading / commenting. Of particular value are the session notes.The wiki for the Online Community Unconference 2008 is now open to all for reading / commenting. Of particular value
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12 month ago
Linkorama : 'Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights - The governmental role that companies play online is taking on greater importance as their services — from online hangouts to virtual repositories of photos and video — become more central to public discourse around the world. It's a fallout of the Int
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14 month ago
Linkorama : Information Arbitrage and the Window of Opportunity - This is a similar point to what I was attempting to make in my Content = Community post in that until people *do* something with information, it might as well not exist in terms of value.
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