Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
MySpace is for the socially excluded, Facebook for “hegemonic teens.” Does danah boyd have too much of her academic reputation invested in MySpace?
(tags: myspace social networks teens trends)
Backnetwork helps pull events together
with a neat social/business networking application, registration, asset control etc. Interesting. Used at Yahoo! UK Hackday
(tags: event [...]
Podcast Player Online
(tags: podcast tools service audio)
Motivations for Influence
Nice, easy presenting style, covering the virtuous circle of “influence.” There’s a slight assumption made in the last step (”Self worth” -> “Information”). I’m not convinced that this would stand up to investigation.
(tags: presentation recommendation viral networks video)
Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2007
(tags: news journalism reference research statistics survey trends tv [...]
Cory Doctorow, “Metacrap : Putting the torch to seven straw men of the meta-utopia”
“A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be a utopia. It’s also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities.”
(tags: internet web search seo)
The 12 Archetypes
Jungian archetypes & brands - (via Steve Jay)
(tags: planning psych segmentation personas)