October 2006
11
Pay Attention to YouTube!
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I’m on a bit of a Marshall McLuhan kick this week, with YouTube’s acquisition to Google still in the air. And Kim Jong Il leaping up and down at the far eastern edge of the
October 2006
09
Marshall McLuhan on YouTube
There’s a great scene in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall in which Allen, overhearing a guy in line for a movie refer to Marshall McLuhan, produces McLuhan with the words “as a matter of fact, I
October 2006
04
You looking at me? Invisibility at Facebook
According to Techcrunch last week, Facebook has enabled the following updates to privacy controls, hand in hand with its grand opening (to the public; facebook was an invite only community): Block other users in specific
September 2006
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Alfred Schutz, F2F, Social Software, and Streams of Consciousness
“If I wish to observe one of my own lived experiences, I must perform a reflective Act of attention. But in this case, what I will behold is a past experience, not one presently occurring.
August 2006
16
Folksonomic Value Proposition part 2 Revised
“First hoary axiom: Value comes from scarcity. Take the icons of wealth in the industrial age&emdash;diamonds, gold, oil, and college degrees. These were deemed precious because they were scarce.” Kevin Kelly It’s The Folksomy, Stupid
July 2006
28
Of You, Me, Mini-Me, Mass Media, and … Mini Media
We think about social media, and social software (sites like Myspace.com, Friendster.net, Tribe.net) in different ways, but usually as software, or as a communication tool, online application or site. Though it was there the whole