social networking

Google+ and the False Sense of Privacy

by Brian on 07-02-2011

in web

I’ll probably use Google+ for sharing photos, but not much else, for now. It seems great for that, giving me enough reason to recommend it. For conversation and news sharing I’ll have to wait and see. I’ve wanted a way to share family photos, etc., without sharing everything with every acquaintance — not because I [...]

Tagged as: google, internet, intimacy, privacy, public sphere, secrecy, signaling, social, social media, social networking

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Growing Into the Web as It Grows Up

by Brian on 03-10-2009

in art,business,civics

I’m going through some self-enforced downtime as far as blogging is concerned. Whenever I start building up momentum with longer posts I start getting too many ideas queued up and overdoing it and not getting sleep and turning into a workahol-addicted zombie.  Some might say it isn’t work but I say it damn well is. [...]

Tagged as: blogging, Charlie Rose, evan williams, facebook, google, london, marc andreessen, marissa mayer, social media, social networking, twitter, web

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Online Maturity

by Brian on 11-03-2008

in business,civics

I found an interesting confession (via polymeme) from an interaction designer, Khoi Vinh, about his somewhat begrudging attitude towards social networds, especially Facebook: I’m now checking into my Facebook account regularly, earnestly trying to shunt aside that feeling that I’m doing nothing more than squandering away precious free hours. I’m still working through my backlog [...]

Tagged as: facebook, social networking

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