August 2009 11
Transparency: truth in social media
Posted By : Adrian Chan

I consider social media to be talk technologies, and I’ve been suspecting of late that the debate around “transparency” is a debate about communication. I say this only because transparency is sometimes used to describe

June 2009 22
Twitter: the Self-ish Meme?
Posted By : Adrian Chan

I’m thinking this bright and clear Monday morning about some thoughts I had last night, when my mind slipped into philosophical musings. I went to sleep reflecting on the state of modernity, and of the

June 2009 06
Behavior: hard-wired or soft-aware?
Posted By : Adrian Chan

Josh Porter has a nice post out this week on the importance of taking user behaviors into account in social experience design. In Behavior First, Design Second, he makes use of an example I often