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Tom Hodgkinson’s rant on (or should I say about?) Facebook

January 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Post from http://elgg.jiscemerge.org.uk/francesbell/weblog/1154.html
Tom Hodgkinson (in the old media corner) squares up against the new(ish) contender Facebook. A quick google search reveals that Tom does have an Internet profile: he tells us that he plays the ukulele, and he does blog about his current reading in a convergent media fashion.Also, anyone who has a web site [...]

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Tags: People

Friendswheel on Facebook

September 7th, 2007 · No Comments

The latest Facebook application to home into my view is Friendswheel, that shows connections between your friends.  This seems to be genuinely useful (unlike some FB apps) and I had a bit of fun annotating my wheel as it is today (link to current version of my wheel).
I  could pick out some clear subnets and [...]

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Tags: ALT · ALT-C 2007

Slam 2.0

September 7th, 2007 · No Comments

I am a bit late in blogging the Web 2.0 Slam workshop session that Helen Keegan, Josie Fraser and I facilitated at 9.30 on Wednesday at ALT-C 2007. My excuse is that I was busy helping to update the workshop WIKI on Wednesday and busy at the Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 [...]

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Tags: ALT · ALT-C 2007 · Fun