'social networks' Category
Suveillance Cameras, IRC, Privacy and Data Use
Catching up on Bloglines, I came across this post by Alec Saunders about proposed surveillance cameras in Ottawa. It evoked a strange kind of cultural dissonance: virtually every town in Britain is already a panopticon. And most people don’t think twice about the roving, all seeing eyes (there are two within sight of Calico Jack’s […]
Pubs, BBC Radio 4 iPM and the Future of Facebook
I’ve always thought that social networking sites will turn out to be like pubs: rising in popularity, going out of fashion and then being reinvented. On this basis, planning future development on the basis of Facebook’s inevitable rise does not seem prudent - strategically, this is an important issue - even before the Beacon fiasco […]
Social networking: not an open and closed case
I was born in Great Yarmouth, a town on the East Coast of Norfolk. The town is essentially built on a long sandbank formed at the confluence or rivers flowing from the Broads. The tidal Breydon Water lies behind the town. Small boats navigate its narrow channels to move between the Broadland Rivers. […]
Cocomment: A step towards joined up blogging
While the Web has brought great bounty to Internet, the downside is that its client-server model has tended to eclipse the collaborative and participatory ethos of services like Usenet. The early Internet ideals were in danger of being subsumed by a Web in which users were relegated to docile, passive, paying consumers of “content” served […]