Identities and Censorship
Pseudonymity One excellent point brought up during our breakfast presentation in the CCT lounge (their journal, Gnovis, posted a write-up of it by Margarita Rayzberg) was that one coping mechanism for...
View ArticleExponential Times
Watch this video on how technology is affecting our world (thanks to Itzbeth for the link!): Not that readers of this blog are unaware of this, but we live in exponential times where technology is...
View ArticleOn Negative Identity
Over on my reputation research blog, I wrote a post that applies to our Yahoo! work too. It’s on the concept of “negative identity”: perhaps social identity formation consists of an element of...
View ArticleSome Effects of Cultural Context
Over on my reputation research blog, I wrote a long piece, mainly to do with Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, “Outliers”. I felt the post was also relevant for this blog because Gladwell talks about how...
View ArticleStudying Russia
[To round out my research, I need to study the BRIC countries -- however I realize I do not have the time to give them much more than a cursory look in all their dimensions: demographics, political...
View ArticleBen’s Status Update
Hi, I’ve not gone missing. I am working on my research paper, incorporating my model from earlier this year. I’ve finished the paper for the most part but need to add citations and put on a sleek...
View ArticleBuilding Online Communities
[Before I begin, I just wanted to link to this O'Reilly Radar post that shows how Facebook continues to blow away its competition, with 175 million users worldwide. Another conflicting post from...
View ArticleFacebook Privacy Stats Discussion
My friend Kevin Donovan sent me a link (thanks Kevin) to this post (by Fred Stutzman) criticizing a NYTimes article (by Randall Stross) about how Facebook is affecting privacy boundaries for different...
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Opening Up Galapag.us for Alpha
My thesis project for NYU-ITP has been Galapag.us, a tribe and ecosystem for promoting the idea that we should be radically open and transparent with our data so that we can form and share metrics to...
View ArticleA List of Books I Read in 2018
2018 Goal: 25 BOOKS2018 Actual: 27 BOOKS Books I read in 2018: (6) How Children Learn – John Holt (This was more personalized and less clinical than I thought it would be. Falls into the schlock...
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