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Cyber culture, social media and Web ?.0 are all themes which describe what this blog is about. On occasion there will be potluck posts… enjoy.

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Myspace, Yourspace or Barackspace?

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Joe Anthony, former owner of Barack Obama’s unofficial Myspace page, is a disgruntled online campaign volunteer. Get used to them. In our age of decentralized political campaigns (thanks to the web) controlling and satisfying every facet of a campaign from meetups to Myspaces is simply impossible.
In the now widely reported incident Obama’s campaign staff closed […]

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With VA Tech students huddled in their dorms as the shootings persisted, it appears some students took to forming groups in support of the early victims and their families. Fellow university students from across the nation have written in with wall posts.
It’s fascinating to watch this type of online activity happen almost instantaneously. The real […]

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Interview with Kevin Rose, Digg it?

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

There are one too many puns I can play on the name of Digg. I won’t bother…
While visiting GDC (for the non-gaming crowd that would be “Game Developers’ Conference”) in San Francisco, I managed to stop by Digg offices for a chat with the founder of the company Kevin Rose. We hit on a number […]

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