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"...for the scientific community, the most critical organ of the incentive system is the cycle of credit."

iamkimiam — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:11:04 -0800

Just how credible is Wikipedia? While some have tested this empirically, others have chosen more dubious methodology. For a site that gives no credit to its post authors, one wonders, why even bother?

I get a lot of giraffes

Potomac Avenue — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:59:48 -0800

One Million Giraffes At this point it's just fun to see people all over the world turning off their TVs, putting their computers away and sitting down to drawing giraffes. From the expert, to the cute, to the inventive, to the...um...idk, One Million Giraffes is may actually make their goal, given that they got 12,000 pictures yesterday.

Artistic Suburban Culture

netbros — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:33:58 -0800

Ross Racine's work may be interpreted as models for planned communities as much as aerial views of fictional suburbs, referencing the computer as a tool for urban planning as well as image capture.

Gab Zamgrh?

xthlc — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:32:08 -0800

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The thirtieth birthday of online communities

SteveInMaine — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:30:50 -0800

During a January blizzard thirty years ago in Chicago, Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss came up with the idea for a computerized bulletin board system. One month later on February 16, 1978, the first public online community was officially established, and it was named CBBS. As you might expect for the time, discussion on CBBS was mostly about computer stuff. You can get a taste of what the messages looked like in all their textual glory.

interest = hotness x camwhore factor x craziness

madamjujujive — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:44:27 -0800

A beginner's guide to faking your death on the internet - a post without an omg is a post incomplete. (YouTube alert - via Borklog)

A more del.icio.us bookmarking service?

davcoo — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:00:54 -0800

Diigo (Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff) is a new "social annotation" bookmarking site with the standard save-and-share, tags, etc., and also sharable Web page annotations.

Where to find nice posters

Bighappyfunhouse — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:33:09 -0800

Where to find nice posters

doctors suing patients

halekon — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:07:01 -0800

Doctors suing patients Are you angry and upset because of what a doctor did or did not do during a medical procedure? Did you express your anger online? Now doctors are suing patients for expressing their anger online.

Cows... that are creative...

shmegegge — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:44:16 -0800

Creative COW (Communities Of the World) seems to be a one-stop... stop... for help with After Effects, Combustion, and other industry software of just about any type. While some (nevertheless incredible) tutorials are a bit difficult to decipher, they could also be much worse. The focus looks mostly to be on After Effects and other Motion Graphics software, but the forums are invaluable for just about anything you might need. Of particular note would be the Demo Reels forum, where anyone from Editors to Directors of Photography, and even Game Developers (former or otherwise) can post reels for criticism and even be approached for work. Some of them are incredible, even if you're not involved in the industry.

broadband fiber municipal broadband

thedailygrowl — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 18:19:07 -0800

As dial-up internet access begins to fade, a fight is happening over the right of municipalities to install and run their own broadband Internet access networks. Various think tanks like the market oriented Heartland Institute and the community oriented Institute for Local Self Reliance have chimed in on the debate. Last week the Supreme Court ruled that cable companies do not have to provide "open access" to rival Internet providers. And down in Lafayette Louisiana, where the community will soon vote on whether to install a municipal Fiber to Home Network, some of the citizens decided to inject some humor into the issue by holding a film festival.

Flight of the Creative Class

mk1gti — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:56:42 -0800

Rise of the Creative Class followed by the Flight of the Creative Class. Following up on The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), Florida argues that if America continues to make it harder for some of the world's most talented students and workers to come here, they'll go to other countries eager to tap into their creative capabilities—as will American citizens fed up with what they view as an increasingly repressive environment. He argues that the loss of even a few geniuses can have tremendous impact, adding that the "overblown" economic threat posed by large nations such as China and India obscures all the little blows inflicted upon the U.S. by Canada, Scandinavia, New Zealand and other countries with more open political climates. Florida lays his case out well and devotes a significant portion of this polemical analysis to defending his earlier book's argument regarding "technology, talent, and tolerance" (i.e. that together, they generate economic clout, so the U.S. should be more progressive on gay rights and government spending). He does so because that book contains what he sees as the way out of the dilemma—a new American society that can "tap the full creative capabilities of every human being." Even when he drills down to less panoramic vistas, however, Florida remains an astute observer of what makes economic communities tick, and he's sure to generate just as much public debate on this new twist on brain drain.

Clean up on aisle 7

shoepal — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:41:08 -0800

Big Box Reuse: How Communities are Re-Using the Big Box. (via, via Planetizen)

The most addicting website since The Blue

trinarian — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 03:54:16 -0800

[TheFaceBook]: It comes in the genre of LiveJournal, MySpace, and Friendster - except with a focus on digitally connecting pre-existing friendships on college campuses rather than finding new friends worldwide. Subsequently, it has thus far avoided the stigmas I’ve seen attached to its predecessors by non-users. Its use has skyrocketed: about 15% of my campus has signed up since this past winter. All of it through word-of-mouth. One of the neat tricks it does is show a visualization of your friends on the network in a spider webbed vectored graphic connecting them based on their mutual friendships. It’s also proven very useful in tracking down those “where do I know him/her?” names through a prominently displayed list showing up to two-degrees of separation to the mystery person. Oh, and you can send text messages to cell phones through it. Did I mention it also reminds you of birthdays?

Tag me as

NickDouglas — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:35:46 -0800

Rebirth of the Semantic Web. On the heels of the Technorati taggregator, the Oddiophile bookmarklet, the tag search (new today!) and much ensuing buzz, Jeff Jarvis brings up people tagging. This concept drove Friendster and FOAF, both of which petered out. But with Technorati's elegant synthesis of photo, link, and post tagging, the web may once again tap into networked individualism.

Peer-reviewing the monkeyhouse

Asparagirl — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:15:20 -0800

Introducing the International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC), a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal whose first issue just went online. Growing out of the papers presented at the IADIS International Conference on Web Based Communities, the journal lists among their intended subject coverage such topics as "the history, architecture and future of virtual communities", "group processes and self-organisation", and "fading hierarchies and epistemic dictatorship". Read it while you can, because future hardcopy subscriptions will run you $450/€430 a year.

Floggies!

jearbear — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 13:55:13 -0800

With the next round of bloggies (or web log awards for those not down with the hip lingo), there's some concern that some types of blogs with large communities may not be included. Specifically, communities that are well known for tons of online events, and large gathering places whose interactions leak in to and out from real life. So, the food bloggers (floggers?) have done what they do best, and started their own awards - with 14 nomination categories, the results plan to, at the very least, make us all drool, if not inspire a few feasts here and there.

(and yay to mefi for winning last year's best community blog!)

Get out the vote

Mwongozi — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 16:12:08 -0800

Vote for your favourite online community

Dunstan Orchard

filchyboy — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:22:34 -0800

Dunstan Orchard designed his site header to mimic the view and weather of his parent's home in Dorset. To do so he created 90 illustrations reflecting the local weather such as cloud condition, wind, humidity, etc. and matched the pics with a XML feed from weather.com. The design features a panel which folds out from beneath the current illustration and presents detailed local weather for both San Francisco & Dorset. Dunstan's talent and attention to detail are astounding. I've only scratched the surface of what he does with this site.

Posting and You..

sequential — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:20:27 -0800

Here's a good guide to posting, in flash form.

Cuddle parties

fvw — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:03:51 -0800

In the "it takes all kinds" category, Cuddle Parties. After all, nothing says "No dry humping" like a thong.

Sure is hot in here

sciatica — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 22:42:37 -0800

The Fursuit & Costume Archive has a most impressive collection of videos of people in animal costumes. Are you furry-curious?

Gas Price Social Networking

bkdelong — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:51:05 -0800

Gas prices are out of control and will continue to rise [NY Times]. However, I was looking at Matt H's Social Software ideas and decided check out one that already exists - gas prices. GasPriceWatch.com is a site that hosts gasoline prices from around the country. But the problem is, despite it's request for "non-commercial" use of the data, it relies on users to enter that information.

I'm about to have my first child so I've been looking at ways to save money -I figured finding the cheapest place to get gas would be a great way to start but quickly found that my price entries were the only ones within a 10 mile radius of my house. Spread the word.

from kibbutz to

amberglow — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:24:58 -0800

Private kibbutzim? The kibbutz, unique and successful socialist experiments in communal living, helped build a country. Has their time passed? Different wages for different jobs, deeding property to individual members, and privatization of production are being instituted at 100 of them, out of an estimated 270 total. In a world where selfishness and capitalism seem to rule, is there hope for communal living?

Orkut + Netflix = Mediachest

zpousman — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:40:59 -0800

Newsflash: actually useful social-software site. There are many, many (etc., etc.,) sites that have sprung up to represent networks of friends (and friends of friends) on the web. But so what? There's no compelling reason to create or keep these profiles; there's nothing in it for you (just lots of work). But I've stumbled across Mediachest (screenshot) which is a sharing community for books, DVDs, and CDs. You can borrow your friends books and music and movies, and they can borrow yours. It's like a permanent MefiSwap!