Archive for 2005/12


Some knee-jerk answers

My final thoughts on Social Software Affordances…
• What is ’social’ about social software?
It connects people together.
• How is the notion of community being redefined by social software?
Distances between people, both temporal and spatial, are becoming less of a factor.
• What aspects of our humanity stand to gain or suffer as a result […]

IE Project update and reflections

I’m glad *completing* the Issue Entrepreneurship project wasn’t the point, because I feel like I didn’t even really get it off the ground! I kept waiting to post an update, waiting for bigger news to relay, hoping a breakthrough in involvement was just around the corner.
But that never happened. From the time […]

Rational Dread of the Cyclotron - IA#4

In Questioning Technology, Andrew Feenberg argues that since the way we use technology is so strongly tied to our social structure, there can be no serious political change without a corresponding change in technology. To oversimplify, in order to change the world, we must first change the way we view and use technology as an […]