knowledge access as a public good (danah boyd)- June 27, 2007 Over at the Britannica Blog, Michael Gorman (the former president of the American Library Association) wrote a series of posts concerning web2.0. In short, he&8217;s against it and thinks everything to do with web2.0 and Wikipedia is bad bad bad. A handful of us were given access to the posts before they were posted and asked to craft responses. The respondents are scholars and thinkers and writers of all stripes (including my dear friend and fellow M2M blogger Clay Shirky). Because I...http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/06/27/knowledge_access_as_a_public_good.php viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace (danah boyd)- June 24, 2007 Over the last six months, i&8217;ve noticed an increasing number of press articles about how high school teens are leaving MySpace for Facebook. That&8217;s only partially true. There is indeed a change taking place, but it&8217;s not a shift so much as a fragmentation. Until recently, American teenagers were flocking to MySpace. The picture is now being blurred. Some teens are flocking to MySpace. And some teens are flocking to Facebook. Which go where gets kinda sticky, because it...http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/06/24/viewing_american_class_divisions_through_faceb... Gorman, redux: The Siren Song of the Internet (Clay Shirky)- June 20, 2007 Michael Gorman has his next post up at the Britannica blog: The Siren Song of the Internet. My reply is also up, and posted below. The themes of the historical lessons of Luddism are also being discussed in the comments to last week&8217;s Gorman response, Old Revolutions Good, New Revolutions Bad Siren Song of the Internet contains a curious omission and a basic misunderstanding. The omission is part of his defense of the Luddites; the misunderstanding is about the value of paper and the...http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/06/20/gorman_redux_the_siren_song_of_the_internet.ph... |