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Social Beans is a community effort to establish Skeleton Portability across social media publishing platforms. It is an open standard that outlines the building blocks of the social web.
Social networks make it easy for 3rd parties to identify you - Ars Technica
Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Digg, and LiveJournal (among others) are all guilty of "leaking" personally identifiable information (PII) to partners, according to a recent study by Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Craig E. Wills and AT&T Labs' Ba
Rowing as a group increases pain thresholds : Not Exactly Rocket Science
Group activities, such as rowing in an 'eight', increases the pain thresholds of the individual athletes, compared to rowing alone. These raised thresholds are probably the result of endorphins, natural pain-killing chemicals that our brains release when
The Web At A New Crossroads
the web we have today is because a bunch of scientists, academics, and government folks needed a way to share static documents — not set up identities or have a dynamic conversation in public. The net was decidedly antisocial and anti-serendipity, from th
Is Happiness Catching? - NYTimes.com
[look for responses to this; otherwise: be choosy in picking your friends; see Jonah's article on the Framingham study in Wired for data visualization: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-10/ff_christakis] By analyzing the Framingham data, Chr
The mysterious equilibrium of zombies - The Boston Globe
This seminal problem in game theory has an important property: while cooperation is a more socially beneficial strategy, it is actually a more “stable” strategy for each person to betray the other, since this makes each better off independent of the whims
Help Me Investigate | Find out the facts
A place where you can collaborate with other people to investigate things
1. Start an investigation
2. Invite other people to help you investigate it
3. Collaborate and share answers
What Facebook Quizzes Know About You
verything on your profile is made available to the developers when your friends take a quiz. To drive this point home, the ACLU's Quiz loads up information pulled from your friends' profiles and displays that data below the answer for your perusal. Here,
The Economics of Loneliness - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com
Economists are not believers in the virtues of lone wolves. Economics should be seen as a discipline that has spent centuries chronicling the enormous gains that come from people connecting with each other. Ayn Rand’s heroes, like the architect Howard Roa
Breaking: It’s not just Facebook. 4Chan hack Christian’s social network, email, Paypal accounts and more… – The Next Web
See choosing good passwords: http://www.cs.umd.edu/faq/Passwords.shtml. Also Twitter, Facebook & email passwords should all be different. Password retrieval questions should be ones only you know the answer to. Password retrieval email address should use
How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Page 2 | Fast Company
[this is page 2 of 4] Today, "open content" is the biggest front of innovation in higher education. The movement that started at MIT has spread to more than 200 institutions in 32 countries that have posted courses online at the OpenCourseWare Consortium.
Mind Hacks: Seeing what we want to see in our friends (re: Drake's "What you don't know about your friends")
[Bennett's] article has a bit of a quirk, however, by supposedly explaining "Psychologists call this projection: in situations where there’s any ambiguity, people tend to simply project their feelings and thoughts onto others". Except, they don't. The eff
Online Community Building: Gardening vs Landscaping at Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech
So, what’s the secret to successful community building? You guessed it: be a great gardener and avoid the temptation to landscape. Here’s what that means: * A gardener only takes out the weeds; a landscaper takes out everything that isn’t part of th
Cody Brown - MySpace is to Facebook as Twitter is to ______
Facebook was one of the first social networks to emphasize genuine identity insofar as they required full names, university email addresses, and deleted accounts that used aliases. The second was pragmatic. Facebook launched in a single target market. In
Ride Oregon
whoa! "an online epicenter for information on cycling in Oregon, to continue progress toward making our state the best place in America to ride a bike."
Culture Wars | Mind, brain and self in the age of Facebook
Are our brains being restructured? Probably they are, but is this a relevant question? Before the invention of writing, bards and poets of the oral tradition had to learn huge poems the size of the Iliad – no-one does this any more, so you could say that
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a leading neuroscientist, addressed a House of Lords committee on the subject and raised important questions and concerns.
Why are people using these sites? What are the dangers to children’s brains? She drew out five areas of risk for their lordships to consider: Human brains are very plastic and children’s brains particularly so – these sites may pose a threat to their development; the persistent use of this technology may change who we all are fundamentally; children may lose the ability to read other people’s emotions and the capacity to make real friends; screen culture may be related to the rates of autism and ADHD; and that screen culture may also make all of us shallower.
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children do not have the chances to go out and make friends in the ways they once did. Children use different methods of achieving different things and this technology is a part of it. Watching TV for long periods has been displaced among children by use of other screen-based activities. Will we all be lonely and disembodied? Social networking is part of people’s attempt to build what is called social capital. It is part of the strategies people have to maintain relationships with others and could be said to produce more social contact, not less. If you have friends already and want to keep in better touch with them, then Facebook et al are a good idea. If you are already lonely then spending your time on Facebook is not such a good idea.
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Imaginary Friends: Television programs can fend off loneliness (SciAm)
4.5 hours of TV/day?! No way.
Imaginary Friends: Television programs can fend off loneliness (SciAm)
4.5 hours of TV/day?! No way.
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