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How does one produce truth? This summer I have put the finishing touches on a chapter about anonymity, identity and craigslist Missed Connections. I have now spent about a year studying how people use and abuse this potentially unintended social space (you can see the beginning of this journey here on gnovis), and (if I do say so myself) have some good ideas. In just a matter of days I will have completed my grand theory. But it's just a theory, and according to Chris Anderson's recent Wired article, despite my supporting data, it's just as passe.  Read More »

I'm spending the bulk of this week at DrupalCon Boston 2008, a conference for web developers who use Drupal, an open source content management system (which, by no small coincidence, is what gnovisjournal.org runs on). Most of the actual proceedings are probably not of interest to gnovis readers, because they are aimed at Drupal geeks, but I've kept my ears open for the echos of CCT-friendly ideas, and outlined a few below. I'll be blogging in much more detail on my personal website, www.sleepcamel.net , throughout the week.  Read More »

As a follow-up to Nicole Guerra’s post from this past weekend on Web 2.0, I thought I’d direct your attention to a blog I posted today on the Pew Internet and American Life Project’s website. In wake of last week’s launch of OpenSocial by Google, I felt compelled to comment on the growing pressure to be “social” online and have a virtual identity.  Read More »

Sometimes I wonder if I am just slow to pick up on tech trends or if Google really is slowly taking over the world. Today I came across this story, courtesy of Boing Boing, on one of Google’s latest steps in world domination, GOOG-411.  Read More »