Tag Archives: Research
On Not Scraping Orkut
Liz on Many2Many posts a pointer to this geomapping of orkutsters. I spoke to my class Monday night about the ethical dimensions of getting at that data. The minute I first signed on to Orkut, I realized that it would be a great source of info to mine for looking at several social sciency questions, […]
I am not (as) alone
Couple of recent papers are intriguing in that they fall squarely into areas of particular interest for me. The first is a paper that will be appearing in the proceedings for CHI 04 called Slash(dot) and Burn: Distributed Moderation in a Large Online Conversation Space. Since my dissertation (“pdf”:https://alex.halavais.net/research/diss.pdf) dealt a little bit with the […]
Unbound whuffie
Steve Gillmor “writes”:http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1516928,00.asp in this issue of _eweek_ about the place of social software, quoting Ross Mayfield’s “suggestion”:http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/01/25/why_orkut_doesnt_work.php that these systems are “frictionless wuffie[1] fun.” He talks a bit about wikis and the question of incentivizing information sharing, which he terms “enterprise whuffie.” I wonder if this isn’t an oxymoron. That is to say, bureaucratic […]
Permanent job loss