Compuserve started in 1969. The WELL in the early ’80s. I didn’t really get into social networks and online communities until the late ’80′s. Certainly, not creating content, editing and commenting on content and making friends and so on, until I got hooked on Usenet newsgroups in 1988 – 20 years ago. Here’s a youthful Howard Rheingold guiding us down memory lane of social networks online. Note how in the ’80s they used online networks to a) get jobs b) do dating c) replacement for boring tv d) create real life social networks e) event management online and offline f) Continue Reading…

 

Jeremiah is an analyst for Forester- here’ s a high level overview (very high level) of a presentation he gave Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and you can read more on his blog: | View | Upload your own I’m a little uncomfortable seeing those slides. I think you know I am pretty quick to hat tip – I, like most social network strategists, stand on the shoulders of giants. I do miss giving credit from time to time, but I try. There’s been a huge amount of research, PHDs and study in the area of virtual communities in the last Continue Reading…

 

Welcome home darling, how was your day at the cube farm? Bit of a discussion in today’s Sydney Morning Herald (Oct 27-28, page 3 MyCareer) about putting hobbies on job applications. (You go find the linkety link). I blame the education system for this kind of nonsense. Howard Rheingold said it so well at eduau2007 – We teach kids how to sit still all day, only moving when the bell rings, so they are assimiliated as good and obedient little battery hens.. errr workers: Here’s a bit of that article from the Sydney Morning Herald who spoke with Morgan McKinley Continue Reading…

 

Yep Teledildonics is exactly what you think it is. Long before Amy Jo Kim and Jenny Preece wrote their Social Networking bibles in the late ’90s, and long, long before Danah Boyd started making friends on Friendster, Howard Rheingold was writing, speaking and evangelising communities online (late ’80′s). How can you not love a man who writes 20 pages on Teledildonics his book Virtual Reality. How can you not worship a technologist/futurist who opens a chapter with: There was a young man named Kleenewho invented a fucking machineConcave or convex, it fit either sexand was exceedingly easy to clean Ask Continue Reading…

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