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Space madness… in social media

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

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Exploring the unknown territory of the space community’s involvement in social networks, I’ve compiled a list of space-related Twitter accounts that are on my radar. From telescopes to planetary explorers, astrobiology to robots, these accounts aim to add some education to your everyday.
At last count, I have 112 space-related Twitter accounts on the [...]

Tags: astrobiology, robots, space, telescopes, twitter

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Twitter: Dating and Death

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

(I’ve been horrible at keeping up with a blogging routine lately, but that’s a subject for a later post.) I was recently asked over email what I thought could be a potential “Twitter killer” as well as an interesting way Twitter is being used. Thought I’d share my off-the-top-of-my-head response:
Potential Twitter killer:
Lack of community
Twitter as [...]

Tags: community, dating, flickr, location, twitter

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Researching online behavior

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

 
My frequency of blogging has gone down lately. Is it because of the pervasiveness of microblogging? For the most part, no. The answer is that I’m consuming a LOT more information than outputting, which leaves little time to share all the great things I’m learning about at the end of the day.
A great book I’m [...]

Tags: cdt, child online protection act, copa, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, harassment, how to think like a computer scientist, law, learning with python, missouri law, online behavior, psychology of the internet, python, research, stalking, twitter

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Twitter responds

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Wow, totally did not expect today to be as overwhelming as it was. There are a lot of things being thrown around, some valid and others completely nonsensical, so I’d like to clear a few of them up (hoping to be less long-winded than my last post).
Twitter did respond, twice on Get Satisfaction, first here [...]

Tags: abuse, Community Management, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, harassment, terms of service, tos, twitter

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Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Update 3: Please see my follow-up post about Twitter’s response.
I started using Twitter in March 2007, just before their SXSW explosion. Not surprisingly, I instantly became addicted and since then have used the service for everything from personal to professional.
Overall, Twitter is a great platform to connect with friends and co-workers and it felt [...]

Tags: abuse, Community Management, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, flickr, harassment, terms of service, tos, twitter

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