Archive for January, 2009

Califa 2009 Digitization Symposium

Today I’m attending my first academic conference, the 2009 Digitization Symposium, hosted by the Califa Library Group. Most of the other attendees here are library professionals, but the conference sounds interesting and it is local–and cheap. So I hauled my bike on to Caltrain and headed for the SF Public Library.

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What the World Needs Now is Another Online Social Network

When I was first coaxed into joining Friendster back in March 2003, I had no idea that social networks would become such a BFD. Or maybe I just didn’t get it. I mean, I’m not a social butterfly by nature, and I can only play “6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon” for so many days before getting bored. But most of all, I think I was resistant to participate because social networks seemed kind of creepy to me.

In the beginning, social networks creeped me out

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