KA9ETP is now following KA2HNO

On the heels of a Chris Messina’s Status Update from 1940, here’s another story of how ultimately familiar this emergent use of Twitter-as-global-network is. Last week after Web 2.0 I spent a sunny Autumn morning wandering around in Brooklyn, including a stop at a favorite thrift store in Williamsburg. Pouring through their collections of old photos and postcards, a friend found something rather strange. Amidst the christmas cards and “wish you were here” messages from H...

Web 2.0 Prezo

I got a chance to speak at Web 2.0 last week about designing social software and the role of anthropology and sociology that process. It’s basically a paired down version of the piece at Core77, so if you read that through don’t expect see anything new The experience was a great one for me personally — I haven’t done many speeches to that size or critical an audience — but I do find myself wondering what the benefits of giving a keynote at a conference ultimately are. I know this is a tr...