Erin Malone points to an article on the challenges of managing the Flickr community in the SF Chronicle:
"People bring their human relationships to Flickr, and we end up having to police them," Champ says. …
Lest your inner libertarian objects to such interventions, Champ is quick to correct the idea that the community would ultimately find [...]

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This excellent report came out a couple of weeks ago. It shows that the ubiquity and importance of video games, and game culture, is even bigger than many of us imagined. I explored some of this in a presentation a few years ago: Clues to the Future. I’m itching to keep running with some of [...]

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There’s been a lot of writing here and there about social networks and privacy, but I especially like how this professor from (one of my alma-maters) UNCG puts it in this article from the Washington Post:
“It’s the postmodern nightmare — to have all of your selves collide,” says Rebecca G. Adams, a sociologist at [...]

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Chris Brogan has a great post about 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media, with some helpful tips on creating that thing we keep hearing about “the Personal Brand.”
I’ve always struggled with this, though. I’ve been doing this “blogging” thing a long time. In fact, my first “home page” was a text-only index file. [...]

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Hey, I’m Andrew! You can read more about who I am on my About page.
If I had a “Follow” button on my forehead, and you met me in person and pushed that button, I’d likely give you a card that had the following text written upon it:
Here’s some explanation about how I use [...]

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I wasn’t aware there was such debate over what makes a blog a blog, and a wiki a wiki. But Jordan Frank over at Traction Software makes a sensible distinction, one that I could’ve sworn everybody took for granted?
What is a Blog? A Wiki?
And that, finally, brings me to a baseline definition for both blogs [...]

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