• Gallery of network images

    Mark Newman of the University of Michigan has produced some excellent maps of social networks (I especially liked the one on high school friendships). Valdis Krebs or Orgnet is another 'network analyst' that has produced some highly original maps.

  • How celebrity bloggers make friends and influence people

    How celebrity bloggers make friends and influence people – Technology Yet another innocent enough article about Cory Doctorow in today's Age newspaper. But the question remains, does Doctorow have sponsored posts in his blog (see below)? Are sponsored posts similar to 'cash for comment' on radio shows (ie. John Laws)?

  • What is Blog Depression?

    The Nanoist is an interesting weblog…although it may take you a while to figure out yet another ideosyncratic-blog  take on the world. Not such a bad thing. Anyhow, on The Nanoist you will find a pamphlet on Blog Depression. It's pretty funny; a tad 'deteriministic' perhaps, but you will get the picture. You can also download it as…

  • BBC – Press Office – BBC’s Director of New Media & Technology defines vision for the future

    BBC – Press Office – BBC's Director of New Media & Technology defines vision for the future A great article from the BBC about searching for stuff on the Internet (part of the rhetoric of Web2.0) 'Find' relates to the next generation of navigation. "Metadata is the information that we hold about our programmes; if…

  • EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse

    EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse One of the best activist sites to come out of Melbourne is the Energy Bulletin. It runs on its own purpose-built content management system (I think) and get a mega-amount of page reads. It aggregates content in relation to the concept of peak oil; or the time when global oil…

  • Crushing the Web 2.0 Myths

    net critique » Interview with Sole 24 Ore: Crushing the Web 2.0 Myths Geert Lovink is a very well-known Internet critic; especially here in Australia. Here is Lovink at his best, taking on the myths of Web2.0 (interveiw on his own blog). GL: Indeed, we have left the post-dotcom era, a relatively quiet period that gave…