17 days 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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23 days 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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25 days 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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29 days 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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29 days 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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2 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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2 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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4 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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wearehugh : Published | fsdaily.com - Free Software News - look ma, a digg just for me
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gleuschk : Academia.edu - hard to know exactly what the point is, but looks interesting
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7 month ago
veen : Demand Satisfaction! » API! API! API! - "Get Satisfaction is superclose to releasing a RESTful API (including some very cool OAuth support) through which you can access almost all of our current features and functionality."
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Findings from the Community Best Practices Workshop - I structured the workshop where we’d identify key problems, then would get folks to share their different best practices, and I’d be sure to add my own. I promised to share all the content and here it is:
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7 month ago
WillPate : Digg Uses Smarter Algorithm to Manage Their Community | Will Pate's Blog
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8 month ago
wearehugh : where is gtk 1 support ? - mozilla.dev.apps.firefox | Google Groups - bwahahahaha
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8 month ago
Rod Begbie : xkcd : ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-signal: Attacking Noise in Chat - An interesting way to moderate IRC chat: Only allow unique new sentences to be spoken. #
joshua : Attacking Noise in Chat - the problems of noise vs stagnant communities and the effects of moderation
Andy Baio : xkcd's Robot9000 attacks noise in real-time chat - a parallel IRC channel only displays lines of conversation that've never been spoken before [via]
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8 month ago
adamrg : Unstructured learning is Saturday House goal - I would love to use this model in my classroom. Interest exists, too bad it can't be cool to show it.
deusx : Local News | Unstructured learning is Saturday House goal | Seattle Times Newspaper - "For the past several months, a group of self-described geeks has gathered weekly to re-create the feeling of kindergarten, where everyone has a project and stays for the day, learning in a free-form kind of way."
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9 month ago
WillPate : How Can We Make ConceptShare Even More Fun?
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9 month ago
wearehugh : Slashdot: Items Tagged With 'itsatrap' - this is what happens when you let users tag stuff
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9 month ago
wearehugh : Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » New Open Committer and Reviewer Policy
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9 month ago
WillPate : FFFFOUND! - Image bookmarking
Greg Storey : FFFFound - and Clusterflock have been added to the Deck. Welcome.
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Fan website buys soccer team - In a landmark for English football, members will vote on player selection, transfers and all major decisions.
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10 month ago
WillPate : Chapters Community - Online community for canadian booklovers
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11 month ago
Linkorama : an online encyclopedia torn apart - "So now, mixed in with the euphoria and positive energy it's a lot of cutting, fighting, referencing, cutting back while leaving the good stuff in. New priorities are arriving. Newer folks feel like they're wielding a machete, not planting new trees.
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