I'm in the Saturday morning opening session at blogher, which is about whether women should "learn to play by the rules" or "change the rules."
danah boyd just got up to clarify a misstatement claiming that women don't do social networking as much as men do. danah explained that women and men (tend to) do social networking in different ways.
"Women form dense social networks with fewer people and stronger, more intimate ties. Men tend to spread it around."
Check out this very very very very very very very cool Flickr Related Tag Browser.
Lots of buzz around this week about Marc Canter et al. announcing the GoingOn network, a meta social network that will provide a platform for stitching together existing social network and digital identity systems and standards, or something like that.
JD Lasica interviewed Valerie Cunningham for a better explanation of what's going to be going on, to mangle Marvin Gaye.
Marc also responds to and clarifies some positive coverage at Dana Blankenhorn's Moore's Lore Corante blog.
When I posted about my panel at the Sierra Summit, Philippe Boucher wrote in suggesting we try to arrange for bloggers to meet at the conference or to offer some sort of workshop or hand's on event for people interested in blogging:
Maybe this conference deserves more than a half hour on Saturday about the new media? I was wondering about using this opportunity to have the bloggers in attendance (if there are any) to meet.
I'm not sure what sort of time people will have available, and I don't think I'm personally able to organize a blogger's "birds of a feather"-type meeting. But if someone does organize such a meeting I will certainly attend and would be happy to speak and or help-facilitate.
Philippe goes on:
I also suggested to the organizers a hands-on workshop for people willing to learn about blogging and podcasting by doing it during the conference.
Again, I don't know about schedule or availability, but I'd be happy to contribute to a blogging workshop. I'm still a novice when it comes to podcasting, so I don't think I could anchor a workshop on that but I'd definitely be interested in attending one.
Finally, Philippe asked me, "Is there any plan to record your session for a podcast?"
I'm not aware of any such plan, but I'll find out.
Laura Lemay just sent me a LinkedIn invitation that made me laugh out loud (or LOL), although I realize that it would only be funny to a geek:
#include <linkedinsuckup.h>I don't know what's in the air but for the last two days my eyes have been dry and itchy. I'm trying not to be irritable about it and I'm trying not to rub my eyes, because that's just been making it worse. Next I'll scratch my cornea with an eyelash or something. Too melodramatic?
Picked up a print copy of the Onion in a coffee bar yesterday and saw they had taken the piss out of online social networks (The Onion | 13 July 2005 | Infograph).
Because the link will rot eventually, I stole the graphic, too.
Quoting from Waxy.org Links: News Corp buys MySpace for $580 million:
holy cow
Lots of kids and bands on that site.
One small step for a man, one giant leap for moonkind.
Be sure to zoom all the way in.
The always-insightful How to Save the World blog by Dave Pollard (repeatedly misnamed in my book as "How to Change the World" for I don't know what reason - brain damage, most likely) recently published an entry abstracting seven principles of social networking.
It's one of Dave's shorter posts, too, so don't be afraid to click through!
Here's the short form of the seven principles (but definitely read the explanations to fully grok the big picture):
(via sbpoet in the Well's blog conference)
I'll be speaking at the Sierra Summit on Saturday afternoon from 11:30 to 12:30 PM, on a panel in the Working Smart sequence called "Technology and Organizing: A Civics Laboratory."
The panel features Joan Blades from MoveOn and Zack Rosen from Civicspace as well as myself, so we should have a lively conversation and be able to range widely while keeping things tied down to concrete, practical advice. We'll be up against the ubiquitous George Lakoff so the pressure will be on to keep it lively and to frame our metaphors carefully.
Lazy Independence Day reblogging, quoting from Blog While You Book
NYT: For years, book authors have used the Internet to publicize their work and to keep in touch with readers. Several, like John Battelle, are now experimenting with maintaining blogs while still in the act of writing their books.
