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Is Social Software a Mirror or a Lens?
Humorously, Liz Lawley's greatest contribution to this talk is to exclude everybody but the inner circle who is surrounding her.
Sections: Emerging Practice
Topics: CoranteSSA social
Liz Lawley is leading this. She notes that there is a tendency for people in the blogosphere to just hang out with birds of a feather. She also notes there is a core group that comes to all of these events and some new people. Liz is an absolute jerk by demanding that people who want to participate come to the front half of the auditorium. Hey, not my fault the auditorium is set up the way it is. Unimpressive and overly exclusive, paying to go to a conference and having someone tell you you are not part of their space.
Tina Sharkey and a guy (Joe ?) who used to run Friendster are also on the panel. Tina remarks that AOL wants to facilitate meta-social interaction (people figuring out how to interact and making connections vs. talking on topic). Joe remarks that people in different cultures use the services differently.
So, a point of view emerges that the software provides a platform for people to come in and shape. So, a question I would ask is can you build generic social software platforms that allow this. What I would like is a tool suite that allows me to create communities around topics of interest to me. Tina Sharkey says AOL is evolving this way.
Bud posted this on November 15, 2005
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