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snarfed.org snarfed.org
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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I've highlighted the shit out of this because I believe it actually argues a fundamental truth: communicating electronically is, indeed, a better way of communicating.
I don't think this friendship had to die, but the illusion of romance probably did. I'm going to do my best to choose to ignore the confirmation bias within me - could it be the absence of stigma that enabled these realizations? Is the stigma, itself, then, now a virtually all-powerful (beyond any measure of reflection) force which will never allow us to progress???
Fuck hype, man.
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- Aug 2023
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erinkissane.com erinkissane.com
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One of the things I loved most about Twitter was the way it could throw things in front of me that I never would have even thought to go look for on my own.
I'm afraid this is one of those sentiments that should absolutely be tossed in the because of lack of user control category
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Constantly being told I was somewhat dim because I didn’t understand how to do things or what the unwritten rules were.
This, I particularly hate and hope desperately I did not contribute to.
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which I pulled out of the API as a JSON file by tweaking a bash script a nice stranger wrote up on the spot when I asked about JSON export
This I would very much like to learn more details about... I've been unable to find comprehensive documentation of Bluesky's API thus far.
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- May 2023
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erinkissane.com erinkissane.com
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Mastodon fans know that the network absolutely cannot compete on user friendliness and basic social functionality
friendliness definitely needs to be explicitly defined here.
Have you seen the goddamned art? lol
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Incidentally, when a straightforwardly “I’m a Nazi” Nazi showed up in the beta, people used the report function, and the Bluesky team labeled the account and banned it from the Bluesky app and restricted promotion of the account of the person who invited him. This changed exactly none of the tenor of the Nazi conversation on Mastodon, but it happened.
Now just imagine the equivalent on the scale of an entire server and you've got the story of Mastodon's incredibly centralized, swift expulsion of Gab's influence. Here's The Verge's version for the moment.
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daringfireball.net daringfireball.net
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Just type in a username and password and off you go.
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- Apr 2023
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atproto.com atproto.com
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they require the original server to provide a redirect and cannot migrate the user's previous data.
This is... an extremely strange conclusion to come to regarding Social Web account migration, to say the least.
Taking Mastodon as the handy example...
The only reason to use the (extremely competent, bizarrely fast) process of redirection is that one... would like to have the "required" redirect on the original server. If a user intends to move to a different Mastodon instance and does not want to leave a redirect, that step is just... removed from the process.
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www.techdirt.com www.techdirt.com
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So, services like Calckey, for example, are building out some more user friendly features.
Calckey is a very near fork of Misskey if I'm not mistaken.
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blog.twitter.com blog.twitter.com
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Real Graph is a model which predicts the likelihood of engagement between two users. The higher the Real Graph score between you and the author of the Tweet, the more of their tweets we'll include.
...who thought this was a good idea??
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I realized after fully digesting this document that it effectively outlines a mechanism of anti-discovery.
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- Feb 2023
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tantek.com tantek.com
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arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
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"Queer people built the Fediverse," she said, adding that four of the five authors of the ActivityPub standard identify as queer. As a result, protections against undesired interaction are built into ActivityPub and the various front ends. Systems for blocking entire instances with a culture of trolling can save users the exhausting process of blocking one troll at a time. If a post includes a “summary” field, Mastodon uses that summary as a content warning.
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atproto.com atproto.com
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blog.erinshepherd.net blog.erinshepherd.net
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research.google research.google
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Erin Alexis Owen Shepherd</span> in A better moderation system is possible for the social web (<time class='dt-published'>12/03/2022 11:10:32</time>)</cite></small>
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- Nov 2022
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oer.pressbooks.pub oer.pressbooks.pub
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partnerships, networking, and revenue generation such as donations, memberships, pay what you want, and crowdfunding
I have thought long about the same issue and beyond. The triple (wiki, Hypothesis, donations) could be a working way to search for OER, form a social group processing them, and optionally support the creators.
I imagine that as follows: a person wants to learn about X. They can head to the wiki site about X and look into its Hypothesis annotations, where relevant OER with their preferred donation method can be linked. Also, study groups interested in the respective resource or topic can list virtual or live meetups there. The date of the meetups could be listed in a format that Hypothesis could search and display on a calendar.
Wiki is integral as it categorizes knowledge, is comprehensive, and strives to address biases. Hypothesis stitches websites together for the benefit of the site owners and the collective wisdom that emerges from the discussions. Donations support the creators so they can dedicate their time to creating high-quality resources.
Main inspirations:
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community.interledger.org community.interledger.org
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I went through some of the pieces in the collection. It is important to give a platform to the voices that are missing from the conversation usually.
Just a few similar initiatives that you might want to check out:
Storycorps - people can record their stories via an app
Project Voice - spoken word poetry
Living Library - sharing one's story
Freedom Writers - book and curriculum based on real-life stories
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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All at once, billions of people saw themselves as celebrities, pundits, and tastemakers.
...but what if some of them...didn't.
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griefbacon.substack.com griefbacon.substack.com
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The JFK assassination episode of Mad Men. In one long single shot near the beginning of the episode, a character arrives late to his job and finds the office in disarray, desks empty and scattered with suddenly-abandoned papers, and every phone ringing unanswered. Down the hallway at the end of the room, where a TV is blaring just out of sight, we can make out a rising chatter of worried voices, and someone starting to cry. It is— we suddenly remember— a November morning in 1963. The bustling office has collapsed into one anxious body, huddled together around a TV, ignoring the ringing phones, to share in a collective crisis.
May I just miss the core of this bit entirely and mention coming home to Betty on the couch, letting the kids watch, unsure of what to do.
And the fucking Campbells, dressed up for a wedding in front of the TV, unsure of what to do.
Though, if I might add, comparing Twitter to the abstract of television, itself, would be unfortunate, if unfortunately accurate, considering how much more granular the consumptive controls are to the user. Use Twitter Lists, you godforsaken human beings.
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www.vice.com www.vice.com
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the platform’s reliability is entirely dependent on which one you sign up for.
It's been fine for years! I understand the intention behind informing readers of what the onboarding experience is like at this very moment, but if you're going to be part of this absurdly latent, dense wave of folks suddenly giving Mastodon a try, I think it's important you be very explicit about your lack of experience before the most intense influx of users in the history of the Fediverse.
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Joining Mastodon is undoubtably more complicated than starting a Twitter account.
Are you sure about this argument, Janus? Are you sure you comprehensively tried all methods of onboarding?
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- Jul 2022
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help.twitter.com help.twitter.com
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List management TweetDeck allows you to manage your Lists easily in one centralized place for all your accounts. You can create Lists in TweetDeck filtered by by your interests or by particular accounts. Any List that you have set up or followed previously can also be added as separate columns in TweetDeck. To create a List on TweetDeck: From the navigation bar, click on the plus icon to select Add column, then click on Lists .Click the Create List button.Select the Twitter account you would like to create the List for.Name the List and give it a description then select if you would like the List to be publicly visible or not (other people can follow your public Lists).Click Save.Add suggested accounts or search for users to add members to your List, then click Done. To edit a List on TweetDeck: Click on Lists from the plus icon in the navigation bar.Select the List you would like to edit.Click Edit.Add or remove List members or click Edit Details to change the List name, description, or account. You can also click Delete List.When you're finished making changes, click Done. To designate a List to a column: Click on the plus icon to select Add column.Click on the Lists option from the menu.Select which List you would like to make into a column.Click Add Column. To use a particular List in search: Add a search column, then click the filter icon to open the column filter options.Click the icon to open the User filter. Select By members of List and type the account name followed by the List name. You can only search across your own Lists, or others’ public Lists.
While you still can, I'd highly encourage you to use TweetDeck's "Export" List function to save plain text lists of the @ names in your... Lists.
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- Jun 2022
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briansunter.com briansunter.com
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https://briansunter.com/graph/#/page/logseq-social
Brian Sunter (twitter) using Logseq as a social network platform.
What simple standards exist here? Could this more broadly and potentially be used to connect personal wikis, digital gardens, zettelkasten, etc?
Note that in this thread Dave Winer asks about how it can be tied into other standardized pieces to interconnect?
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>How can I hook my outlines into your net if I’m not running Logseq?
— dave.rss (@davewiner) June 13, 2022
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- May 2022
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www.smartjava.org www.smartjava.org
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www.slideshare.net www.slideshare.net
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www.w3.org www.w3.org
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paul.kinlan.me paul.kinlan.me
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paul.kinlan.me paul.kinlan.me
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- Apr 2022
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anildash.com anildash.com
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I'm sure I read this ages ago, but it's not in my notebook yet. Perhaps worth another pass for notes.
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blog.joinmastodon.org blog.joinmastodon.org
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Funnily enough one of the reasons I started looking into the decentralized social media space in 2016, which ultimately led me to go on to create Mastodon, were rumours that Twitter, the platform I’d been a daily user of for years at that point, might get sold to another controversial billionaire.
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- Feb 2022
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @bhrenton: Preliminary look into the visitor locations to https://t.co/j5ei0O4u1e mapped with new COVID-19 cases shows some overlaps, bu…’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 13 February 2022, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1483697294373531652
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- Oct 2021
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web.hypothes.is web.hypothes.is
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social annotation
Had I known about Hypothesis at the time of my collaboration with Ilaria Forte, I likely would have suggested this as a tool for documenting the stream of consciousness, collecting stories in the context of the media that people are experiencing on the web.
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www.mobindustry.net www.mobindustry.net
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How to Create a Social Media Platform: Technologies, Features, and Cost
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crookedtimber.org crookedtimber.org
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Charlotte Jee recently wrote a lovely fictional intro to a piece on a “feminist Internet” that crystallized something I can’t quite believe I never saw before; if girls, women and non-binary people really got to choose where they spent their time online, we would never choose to be corralled into the hostile, dangerous spaces that endanger us and make us feel so, so bad. It’s obvious when you think about it. The current platforms are perfectly designed for misogyny and drive literally countless women from public life, or dissuade them from entering it. Online abuse, doxing, blue-tick dogpiling, pro-stalking and rape-enabling ‘features’ (like Strava broadcasting runners’ names and routes, or Slack’s recent direct-messaging fiasco) only happen because we are herded into a quasi-public sphere where we don’t make the rules and have literally nowhere else to go.
A strong list of toxic behaviors that are meant to keep people from having a voice in the online commons. We definitely need to design these features out of our social software.
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www.dougengelbart.org www.dougengelbart.org
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Draft notes, E-mail, plans, source code, to-do lists, what have you
The personal nature of this information means that users need control of their information. Tim Berners-Lee's Solid (Social Linked Data) project) looks like it could do some of this stuff.
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- Apr 2021
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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This year’s Slow Art Day — April 10 — comes at a time when museums find themselves in vastly different circumstances.
Idea: Implement a slow web week for the IndieWeb, perhaps to coincide with the summit at the end of the week.
People eschew reading material from social media and only consume from websites and personal blogs for a week. The tough part is how to implement actually doing this. Many people would have a tough time finding interesting reading material in a short time. What are good discovery endpoints for that? WordPress.com's reader? Perhaps support from feed reader community?
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- Mar 2021
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www.tumblr.com www.tumblr.comTumblr1
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The Social Web.
The "Social Web" was a thing by this point
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guestofaguest.com guestofaguest.com
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An interesting bit of web history and fascinating list of names here...
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- Dec 2020
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Andrew Bosworth, one of Facebook’s longtime executives, has compared Facebook to sugar—in that it is “delicious” but best enjoyed in moderation. In a memo originally posted to Facebook’s internal network last year, he argued for a philosophy of personal responsibility. “My grandfather took such a stance towards bacon and I admired him for it,” Bosworth wrote. “And social media is likely much less fatal than bacon.”
Another example of comparing social media and food.
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- Nov 2020
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knightcolumbia.org knightcolumbia.org
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these platforms aim to provide experiences “that people want to use that works as much as possible as they expect, but which is backed up by better values and technology.”
This is an interesting statement of how this new social media should work.
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- Oct 2020
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eds.a.ebscohost.com eds.a.ebscohost.com
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Informal learning in work environments: training with the Social Web in the workplace.
Garcia-Penalvo, F. J., Colomo-Palacios, R., & Lytras, M. D. (2012). Informal Learning in Work Environments: Training with the Social Web in the Workplace. Behaviour & Information Technology, 31(8), 753–755.
The Internet and its increasing usage has changed informal learning in depth. This change has affected young and older adults in both the workplace and in higher education. But, in spite of this, formal and non-formal course-based approaches have not taken full advantage of these new informal learning scenarios and technologies. The Web 2.0 is a new way for people to communicate across the Internet. Communication is a means of transformation and knowledge exchange. These are the facts that cannot be obviated by the organisations in their training programmes and knowledge management. This special issue is devoted to investigating how informal learning changes or influences online information in Social Web and training strategies in institutions. In order to do so, five papers will present different approaches of informal learning in the workplace regarding Web 2.0 capabilities.
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medium.com medium.com
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But the scariest outcome of the centralization of information in the age of social networks is something else: It is making us all much less powerful in relation to governments and corporations.
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- Sep 2020
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macwright.com macwright.comRecently1
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I’ll replace Twitter with something else for a little while, and hopefully that’ll seem different.
on Mastodon these days, it feels very similar. it's a much weaker carrier of memetic payloads, which has ups and downs. it's much more personal. there's an enormous amount of negativity & fear & loathing here, the walkaways it has attracted are often a rather cantankerous sort perhaps. but there are some very good people & very good happenings too. i don't see a whole lot of big picture or cerebral activity, these experiences i see all seem so near at hand, so local to these people, which is interesting but also often fairly boring.
i look forward to us continuing to chase social. and it reconfirms my interest regularly in doing a better job of curating & surfacing & raising up the bigger bolder & more notable things, versus letting the big & weighty coexist unremarked amid the floofy or trashy whatever.
oh and content warning are a surprisingly useful way to create & mark off the spaces where you are going to try to semi-safely produce hot takes & land blows. starting with a warning, setting some scope, is quite effective.
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- Jul 2020
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injury.findlaw.com injury.findlaw.com
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Due to social media, it's now easier than ever to make a defamatory statement. That's because social media services like Twitter and Facebook allow you to instantly "publish" a statement that can reach millions of people.
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arg-tech.org arg-tech.org
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Bex, F., Lawrence. J., Snaith. M., Reed. C., (2013) implementing the Argument Web. Communications of the ACM. (56). (10). Retrieved from chrome-extension://bjfhmglciegochdpefhhlphglcehbmek/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=http%3A%2F%2Farg-tech.org%2Fpeople%2Fchris%2Fpublications%2F2013%2FbexCACM.pdf
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- Jun 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Gvirts, H. Z. (2020). The Balcony Party – Mitigation of social isolation during the coronavirus outbreak [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rp5nh
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Costantini, S., De Meo, P., Giorgianni, A., Migliorato, V., Provetti, A., & Salvia, F. (2020). Exploring Low-degree Nodes First Accelerates Network Exploration. ArXiv:2005.08050 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08050
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- Apr 2020
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www.csdl.tamu.edu www.csdl.tamu.edu
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Isthere any way of using these annotations (cryptic jottings,emphasis symbols, underlining and highlighting) in theDocuverse?
For example, I think one could sum the highlight in each specific section. If many people highlighted a passage, then the highlight color is higher. That way one would be able to discover passages that many people found important/interesting. Although, it may also bias others to do the same. As usual.
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- Mar 2020
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www.wired.com www.wired.com
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he wants to focus on maximizing the health of conversations, and prioritizing people spending their time learning on the site
Jack Dorsey on Twitter's future
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Dorsey doesn’t have all the answers. He’s more like a captain of a ship, wondering aloud how to avoid the many icebergs in his path while continuing ahead at full steam.
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- Nov 2019
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www.opm.gov www.opm.gov
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Training and Development Policy Wiki
This webpage, under the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) .gov site, provides an extensive list of technology resources that can be and have been implemented into a variety of employee deveolpment programs. These tools allow for more personalized learning, active participation, collaboration, and communication.In the first section of the site, examples of Web 2.0 tools are listed that can promote collaboration and constructive learning. You can also find technologies that are used in specific sectors, such as the Federal Government and the Private Sector. Clicking on the links redirects you to additional resources on the tech tools, including how to use them effectively and professionally for employee training. Rating 10/10
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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Using Technology to Help First-Gen Students
This article highlights the need for and benefits of implementing more technology tools to support first-generation college students' learning, engagement, and success. For many first-gen students, especially those from low-income backgrounds, the transition to college can be challenging; this leads to lower retention rates, performance, and confidence. The authors, drawing off of research, suggest mobile devices and Web 2.0 technologies to prevent these challenges. Example of such tools include dictionary and annotation apps that are readily-accessible and aid in students' understanding of material. Fist-gen students can also use social media apps (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) to maintain supportive connections with family, peers, and mentors. Rating: 8/10
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evolllution.com evolllution.com
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Hodson relates specific examples of effective technology integration in her classrooms. Although she acknowledges the apprehension both instructors and learners feel, she argues that the benefits outweigh them.
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- Aug 2019
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www.adweek.com www.adweek.com
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Social media network TikTok is testing an advertising platform that will let advertisers target users across third-party apps, as well as within TikTok.
As of 2018-08, TikTok has 500M users worldwide. 2/3 are under 30. In the US, more than half are 16-24.
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- Jun 2019
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craigmod.com craigmod.com
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I believe there is a place for public comments, but the amount of energy required to nurture a positive community is beyond the means or desires of most institutions. And so most comment sections simply don’t provide a healthy place for conversation.
Craig Mod provides some interesting thoughts on comments and community.
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- Nov 2018
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www.ncolr.org www.ncolr.org
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The Importance of Interaction in Web-Based Education: A Program-level Case Study of Online MBA Courses
This case study explores perceptions of instructors vs. end-users with web-based training. It examines various technologies and techniques.
RATING: 4/5 (rating based upon a score system 1 to 5, 1= lowest 5=highest in terms of content, veracity, easiness of use etc.)
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- Oct 2018
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wiobyrne.com wiobyrne.com
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Why do people troll? Eight factors are given, which might boil down to:
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- Online mob mentality.
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wiobyrne.com wiobyrne.com
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The Online Disinhibition Effect (John Suler, 2004) - the lack of restraint shown by some people when communicating online rather than in person. (It can be good as well as bad. How can we reduce the bad behavior?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect http://truecenterpublishing.com/psycyber/disinhibit.html
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- Sep 2018
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blog.joinmastodon.org blog.joinmastodon.org
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All of these platforms are different and they focus on different needs. And yet, the foundation is all the same: people subscribing to receive posts from other people. And so, they are all compatible. From within Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, PixelFed and PeerTube users can be followed and interacted with all the same.
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ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol based on the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format. ActivityPub is an official W3C recommended standard published by the W3C Social Web Working Group. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and subscribing to content.
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- Jul 2018
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www.economist.com www.economist.com
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When it comes to democracy and human rights, a Jeffersonian internet is clearly a safer choice. With Web 3.0 still in its infancy, the West at least will need to find other ways to rein in the online giants. The obvious alternative is regulation.
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- Jul 2017
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blog.diigo.com blog.diigo.com
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2. Staying with a closed, proprietary system & not moving to the adoption of open standards.
I concur. Diigo could have been a leader in the social annotation space, way ahead of Hypothesis. But now I think H is gaining more momentum than Diigo, because it adheres to open standards.
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- Jan 2017
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Lindy West's thoughtful and amusing goodbye to Twitter. She concisely describes Twitter's good and bad sides. Then she leaves me wondering if any of us should be using it.
I quit Twitter because it feels unconscionable to be a part of it – to generate revenue for it, participate in its profoundly broken culture and lend my name to its legitimacy. Twitter is home to a wealth of fantastic anti-Trump organising, as well, but I’m personally weary of feeling hostage to a platform that has treated me and the people I care about so poorly. We can do good work elsewhere.
I’m pretty sure “ushered in kleptocracy” would be a dealbreaker for any other company that wanted my business.
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- Jun 2016
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www.lewrockwell.com www.lewrockwell.com
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Automated posts from social media accounts pretending to be real individuals are being used to influence public opinion. (The Chinese government uses regular employees to post "real" messages at strategic times.)
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- Apr 2016
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hapgood.us hapgood.us
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Reasons Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have dominated the Web over blogs and independent sites:
- People prefer a single interface that makes it easy to flip or scroll through the new stuff. They don't like visiting a dozen different sites with different interfaces.
- Most people don't want to deal with site structure or complex editors, let alone markup languages or servers.
- Facebook quickly became a friends-and-family network, which pulled in more of the same.
- Following and unfollowing should only require a single click.
- Retweets and mentions introduce new people to follow, even if you aren't looking for them.
- Reposting should be easy, include obvious attribution, and comments should be attached.
- RSS readers had the potential to offer these things, but standard ways of using it were not widely adopted. Then Google Reader pushed out other readers, but was nevertheless shut down.
Let go of the idea of people reading your stuff on your site, and develop or support interfaces that put your readers in control of how they view the web instead of giving the control to the people with the servers.
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- Oct 2015
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www.w3.org www.w3.org
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a web so conceptually consistent, socially relevant and technically expandable
We've done relatively well with the first two. "Technically expandable" is the one in danger.
If we continue to build "social networks" as singular dead end cul-de-sacs, we leave no exit available to those who follow.
The Web we want is expandable beyond the reaches of what we currently know, the economies we operate within, and the future we can currently conceive.
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- Jan 2015
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How interesting! It's the same in my family. Certain members will take as gospel, the opinions of the people they deem to have credibility, but eschew - and even satirically cauterize - the wisdom and factual evidence of people with the authority and knowledge.
It's most frustrating. As for me, I try not to read comments. They just make me so angry!
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