Lately I've been working on something that I'm calling The Refactoring. Not that long ago, I wrote about my Twitter Conversation Networks (read the rationale behind them) and I was blown away by the popularity and the amazing feedback that I got. So I tried to incorporate it all in. Here's the thing, though, it was an ...
This week my supervisor, two of my office mates (Amir and Payam) and I have been working hard putting together a presentation we've recorded for a conference in Algeria on Sunday. I laid out the slides in Keynote, using my color scheme (luckily the others were OK with the pink). We've been impressed with how easy ...
This is what I've been finding in my research - what do you think? Anything missing?
I'm giving a presentation at Carleton for my Seminar course on October 30th. Title and abstract is below - slides coming soon! Title: Conversation 2.0: Twitter Abstract: The advent of Web 2.0 changed the internet. It went from an information medium to a communication medium. Recent developments have made that communication increasingly real-time. Services like Facebook and ...
Lately I've been reading Clay Shirky's book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. It's a really interesting book, and one that I would thoroughly recommend if you're interested in this kind of thing. Something in Chapter 11 (Promise, Tool, Bargain) struck me because it resonated with an experience I had this week ...
So, I was talking to my supervisor the other day about what I'm reading for my research, and he told me that I should be focusing on academic papers, because blogs, newspapers, and books aren't as reliable a source. And he's right, I can't just cite The Economist, and The Guardian and the Bloggers Blog ...
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