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Danah Boyd

WordCamp NYC 2009 – Using WordPress as Research tool

November 14, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. Speaker Jeremy Boggs Information management: how do we aggregate information and make sense of it? Back in the old days we had notes. now we have that and delcious, twitter, other aggregators. “if you are using all [...]

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Twitter is just pointless babble and Facebook ruins your friendships – our lives reflected in Social Media

August 31, 2009

Image via CrunchBase To Continue the discussion and Ideas that developed in my post from 2 days ago about ‘Facebook as the Freindship killer app’, I just read Danah Boyd’s post about Twitter as an aggregator of ‘pointless babble’. The marvelous Boyd makes the point that sites such as Twitter and Facebook are our online [...]

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Baby Boomers, Social Networking and Competitive Advantage

May 26, 2009

This year we have seen amazing growth in Internet use by adults, with 45+ category gaining more and more attention and pulling more weight with web advertising and investment overall. Last week Danah Boyd posted about Facebook being for Old people, and more and more stats show how internet, and especially social media is being [...]

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Social Networks, Undergrads, Grades and Growth

May 3, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Danah Boyd posted about Facebook and how it impacts undergrads. http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/05/01/facebook_and_ac.html The post discusses the media’s treatment to some findings around Facebook use and the correlation to high/low grades. Boyd, Microsoft Research’s new star and a social-media guru with great crowd of followers, focuses on teen use of social networks. It is [...]

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