I’ll be at the Blogtalk downunder conference as you might know. Here you’ll find the presentation.
It’s rather rainy here in Sydney. Right now I’m attending a seminar with Jesse James Garett on user-centered design. They banned wifi to increase the focus on the presentations. JJG’s is excellent so far.

Neither social nor technological. Danah Boyd sums up nicely the barrier that seperates academia and technologists with respect to software that supports group-forming aka Social Software. Interesting insights into the politics of terms - microeconomies of power and their deficiencies.

The Significance of “Social Software”:
“[...] I will explicate those advances and unpack their implications both for digital social life and for our shared knowledge project.

There are six phases in an innovation process that tries to win a market, the most important is the one that tries to satisfy a niche. Starting from that niche and satisfied users market penetration can enfold. An example for that might be the DMS Documentum that was in the beginning focused on the pharmaceutical industry.

Don’t like that at all. Far away from a decent internet connection and a fading blog software. Thinking about letting Radio Userland behind. But almost no second left to do it.

It’s working again. In the course of debugging I decided to get rid of the liveTopics tool. It was fantastic when Matt Mower introduced it long before the tagging hype started giving Radio Userland the option to use a fine granularity for kewyowrding content.