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Friday Flux: John Dean writes about doing research on the Internet

In this edition of the Friday Flux: John Dean writes about doing research on the Internet. “It’s a wonderful first-person account of his use of TPM Cafe (a forum for readers of the political blog Talking Points Memo) to find information that proved elusive when he used traditional [Read more]

The Friday Flux (from Down Under): Wiki Use – Group Authoring

Since I’m in Australia this week, the Friday Flux will be hitting your feed reader a few hours earlier than usual. This week, a post from September 2006 that looks at how a wiki can streamline group collaboration: “Often groups collaborate on a document by “pushing” it out to each [Read more]

The Friday Flux: Debunking 3 common lies about social software

This edition: Debunking three lies about social software. This post looks at JP Rangaswami’s take on three lies about social software: 1) it causes groupthink, 2) it is full of inaccuracies, and 3) it destroys privacy. After summarizing his three debunks, I offered some thoughts on how these [Read more]

The Friday Flux: How I Blog (originally posted August 20, 2006)

This is the second installment in the Friday Flux, a new series in which I highlight a post from the archives (read more about it here). This week: How I Blog, a post I originally wrote on August 20, 2006. From the post: “I’m here to build a relationship with my readers, and to make my blog [Read more]

The Friday Flux: Wiki and the Memetic Marketplace

The Friday Flux is a new weekly series in which I’ll highlight a post from the archives on this blog. The idea for this stemmed from a recent post in which I highlighed an excellent post Dennis McDonald and Jeremiah Owyang wrote which is almost two years old but still as good as ever. [Read more]

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