How We Know Us

Category: Commentary

  • Response: Is social media becoming a vast wasteland?

    Shel Israel penned a great article with an unfortunate quote from writer and blogger Ashok Banker about his retreat from social media, There shouldn’t be writers and fans. We’re all writers on such platforms and should be all equal. The moment there are writers and ‘names,’ it’s a failure of the system. I’m sorry but…

  • Visualize Your Network with Fidg’t

    figd’t screenshot There are more and more great tools getting developed for visualizing our social networks. One of the more beautiful ones I have come across is Fidg’t.  While not quite a SN visualization tool, it does operate on data from SN’s. Fidg’t is an interactive display that looks at your tags in Flickr and…

  • Wrestling with FriendSpam?

    Please Facebook: give us filtering! There has been a lot of talk lately about the increasing and sometimes overwhelming amount of data we are exposed to daily.  [Google: information-overload] What happens when it’s from your friends? I have several hundred friends across the social networks I use, and even with the short updates SN’s usually…

  • The Never Ending Quest for Data

    Finding good data in this field is difficult, even most of the academic literature references relatively small networks of less than 100 or so individuals. I suggest that the academic research is just starting to take off now (although the field is very far from new), because of availability of large real world datasets available…