Tagging and folksonomies have been on my mind recently. I’m still not clear on how they work. I got to thinking today about what kind of social system tags might represent. And then started thinking
There’s an interesting article in the NYTimes today about MySpace, and its intention to market itself to advertisers by allowing them to create profiles and make friends with MySpace members. The thinking here is logical;
Doh! Now cover your left eye, read the following while wearing your social networking analysis hat.Then cover your right eye, and read it again, now wearing your psychoanalyst’s hat. You see what I see, yes?
A friend of mine, Fred Dolan, and I recently had an email exchange on the transformation of the public sphere in online communities and social software sites like myspace, tribe, friendster, orkut, facebook, etc. For
Interesting article in the NYT today about GM’s experience soliciting user-generated content. Namely, ads for the Chevy Tahoe. GM’s experience, not surprisingly, solicited some, hm, should we say un- or solicited, ads decrying the mighty