Month: October 2006

Power Law of Participation

Lee Byrant showed Ross Mayfield’s graph describing what he calls the power law of participation. Lee Byrant’s talk was about a system they’d build to support knowledge sharing in an international law firm, and he was talking about the many different levels […]

blogtalk: series of ten minute talks on social software

[Kathleen’s post on this session is much better than mine…] Adolfo Estallela – blogs from communicative to connective artefacts Web 1.0: Social bounded situations. Social interactions were held through text and images. Technology was just a context. E.g. chat. Web 2.0 different: […]

blogtalk: danah boyd on social software

Social software defined as only new things, largely because of a few events – one on social software, then consolidated when E-tech set down a separate group for social software. Left out listserves, email, MOOs, and the many other kinds of pre […]