Quick Social Media Portability Primer
A nice, brief description of four technologies people think will be key to long-term portability of data across social media.
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Upgrading Elsevier
If you believe, like many, that academic publishers like Elsevier are evil, you may want to upgrade your opinion of Elsevier itself to “small but definitely non-zero chance that this organization is not evil.” According to a joint release from MIT and Elsevier: In a move to encourage open education, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Elsevier … Read more
Becoming a Node on the Social WAN
Whether they realize it or not, when people talk about a “social network,” they’re talking about a social LAN. All the profiles in Facebook or MySpace or Orkut or wherever are on the same network – they’re Local. What we need to be thinking about and putting in place is a social WAN – a … Read more