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I just read this from Brian Mitsoda (ex–Troika) on fave gaming site rockpapershotgun in an article about ‘which games made you the gamer you are’ and I agreed so furiously that a little bit of wee came out: It’s impossible to separate my childhood from Pac-Man. If you were I’ve recently installed a relatively new WordPress plug-in from the good folk at Backtype. This is what it does: it scans the web, including social networks like Twitter and other blogs, for mentions of your post and draws those mentions in as comments on the post. This is a good thing in Twitter has been going mad today on the subject of Qwitter (There’s also Twitter Karma, much the same thing, but I became aware of it earlier than Qwitter thanks to @ssethi). The basic function of these sites is to show people you follow (receive updates from) who aren’t receiving your own updates. So Sue me now: I have used BitTorrent to sample stuff I was not in a position to buy or was not sure whether I wanted to buy. It’s been piracy, legally, but my defences, which I am sure wouldn’t see me win in court, but which might help here are: (a) I buy more music and games than most It’s a genuine question. No rhetoric here. I am working on a contribution to a white paper being prepared by Hotwire PR via Drew Benvie — my particular chapter is ‘Who Uses (online) Social Networks, and How?’ I have a feeling that my first stab at the answer — ‘lots of people in all sorts of ways’ — Whisking through my unread posts today, two items struck me as demanding a little follow-up. First of all, danah boyd and Nicole Ellison’s Social Network Sites: Definition, History and Scholarship. The nature of the paper is pretty obvious from its title, though that is not to imply that it is not well-written, intelligent and provoking. |             | |||
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