PhD: Draft 1 As I Would Submit It

PhD: Draft 1 As I Would Submit It

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95,295 words. 299 pages. not quite there yet, but it’s getting closer and closer and closer and closer…

Revisionhell: Head Noodles

revision hell

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And this is what revision looks like…

links for 2009-07-04

• Music pirates will buy if the price is right
  there's hope for online retailers, says Kevin
  (tags: prog3 money piracy software)
• Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis "From the Bottom Up"
  Social Network Analysis of the blogosphere from January 2005: it's not as densely connected conversation as people might think…
  (tags: prog1 academic research socialnetworkanalysis blog blogs SNA community influence)
• Some Twitter Social Network Analysis
  analysis of the UK PR-Journalist love-in on Twitter from 2008
  (tags: twitter socialmedia analysis blog digital media network social SNA uk prog1)

links for 2009-07-03

• Facebook | Sharing Around the World
  nice eye candy from Facebook's team following all interactions in the app, and how they spread around the world
  (tags: design facebook information sharing social socialnetworking socialnetworks socialsoftware visualisation prog1)
• AI Seduces Stanford Students
  digital chameleons: even in virtuality, people mimic gestures
  (tags: prog4 yee Bailenson research academic secondlife psychology)

links for 2009-07-01

• Vintage Vacations – the offbeat accommodation specialists
  officially on the list
  (tags: retro vacation holiday vintage airstream)
• Beyond Free: …what is the customer’s perception of “free”?
  bet it ain't the same thing as the seller's perception of 'free'
  (tags: prog2 prog1 free online virtual culture virtual_economy)

links for 2009-06-30

• UK Blogosphere: Top 10 British Blogs
  simon and andy are reprazented. hello boys!
  (tags: blog blogs uk prog1)
• 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe
  mmmm visualisations. Twitter in 2008.
  (tags: twitter visualization tools statistics social data web2.0 map prog1)

Must. Have. T-Shirt: Please don’t ask me about my thesis

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links for 2009-06-29

• Obama Falling Short of Promised Online Openness; Does it Matter?
  is the blogosphere really as important as we think it is?
  (tags: prog1 politics obama internet blog research news)
• The WELL
  libertarian roots of the Web
  (tags: prog1 WELL community history internet media online onlinecommunity socialmedia socialnetworking)
• Give us back our crown jewels | Technology | The Guardian" The Free Our Data manifesto
  These sets of data are the modern crown jewels – but instead of treating them as a resource to boost national wealth, the government locks them up, restricting access to those who pay.
  (tags: data government information politics public technology uk prog1 freeourdata opendata)
• Pavel Curtis : Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities
  Certain attributes of this virtual place, however, tend to have significant effects on social phenomena
  (tags: virtual online MOO lambdamoo prog1 comnmunity governance hierarchy)
• Meatball Wiki: LambdaMOO
  A long time ago I saw an interview with the proprietor of Lambda MOO. He claimed they tried pure democracy and that failed miserably. Instead, they had to use AccessLevels: a hierarchical system of wizards, demigods, gods, etc.
  (tags: prog1 lambdamoo crystalball online onlinecommunity virtual MOO hierarchy governance)
• A rape in cyberspace
  seminal article about the transformation of "a Database Into a Society"
  (tags: internet culture cyberspace social violence community identity prog1)
• Christiania loses court case
  Denmark’s Eastern High Court has ruled that the State has the right of use of the Christiania area of Copenhagen and that changes to the law on Christiania in 2004 were legally safe.
  (tags: prog1 christiania denmark news politics)
• Freetown Christiania
  a harbinger of the web to come?
  (tags: prog1 christiania politics community history social government art activism crystalball)
• Editor quits after journal accepts bogus science article
  let that be a lesson to ya…
  (tags: science journal education Guardian journalism badscience media research)

links for 2009-06-15

• Digital Britain: What to expect sector by sector from Lord Carter's report
  The Guardian's point by point breakdown of the forthcoming government report
  (tags: digitalbritain e-learning carter uk britain policy government politics)

links for 2009-06-14

• Terra Nova: Virtual Law Bibliography
  just fell on this. didn't realise it was here. what a tremendous resource.
  (tags: academic culture legal metaverse mmog network reference research)