responding to critiques of my essay on class (danah boyd)- July 26, 2007 One month ago, I put out a blog essay that took on a life of its own. This essay addressed one of America&8217;s most taboo topics: class. Due to personal circumstances, I wasn&8217;t online as things spun further and further out of control and I had neither the time nor the emotional energy to address all of the astounding misinterpretations that I saw as a game of digital telephone took hold. I&8217;ve browsed the hundreds of emails, thousands of blog posts, and thousands of comments across..http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/07/26/responding_to_critiques_of_my_essay_on_class.p... Tagmashes from LibraryThing (David Weinberger)- July 25, 2007 im Spalding at LibraryThing has introduced a new wrinkle in the tagosphere&8230;and wrinkles are welcome because they pucker space in semantically interesting ways. (Block that metaphor!) At LibraryThing, people list their books. And, of course, we tag &8216;em up good. For example, Freakonomics has 993 unique tags (ignoring case differences), and 8,760 total tags. Now, tags are of course useful. But so are subject headings. So, Tim has come up with a clever way of deriving subject headings...http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/07/25/tagmashes_from_librarything.php Spolsky on Blog Comments: Scale matters (Clay Shirky)- July 20, 2007 Joel Spolsky approvingly quotes Dave Winer on the subject of blog-comments: The cool thing about blogs is that while they may be quiet, and it may be hard to find what you&8217;re looking for, at least you can say what you think without being shouted down. This makes it possible for unpopular ideas to be expressed. And if you know history, the most important ideas often are the unpopular ones&8230;. That&8217;s what&8217;s important about blogs, not that people can comment on your ideas. As...http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/07/20/spolsky_on_blog_comments_scale_matters.php "The internet's output is data, but its product is freedom" (Clay Shirky)- July 10, 2007 I said that in Andrew Keen: Rescuing &8216;Luddite&8217; from the Luddites, to which Phil, one of the commenters, replied There are assertions of verifiable fact and then there are invocations of shared values. Don&8217;t mix them up. I meant this as an assertion of fact, but re-reading it after Tom&8217;s feedback, it comes off as simple flag-waving, since I&8217;d compressed the technical part of the argument out of existence. So here it is again, in slightly longer form: The...http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/07/10/the_internets_output_is_data_but_its_product_i... Andrew Keen: Rescuing 'Luddite' from the Luddites (Clay Shirky)- July 9, 2007 Last week, while in a conversation with Andrew Keen on the radio show To The Point, he suggested that he was not opposed to the technology of the internet, but rather to how it was being used. This reminded me of Michael Gorman&8217;s insistence that digital tools are fine, so long as they are shaped to replicate the social (and particularly academic) institutions that have grown up around paper. There is a similar strand in these two arguments, namely that technology is one thing, but the...http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/07/09/andrew_keen_rescuing_luddite_from_the_luddites... |