My friend Monique was instrumental in organizing this year’s tour. Details are on the HMB Review webite, at:
http://www.hmbreview.com/articles/2007/05/16/community/community_news/story4.txt
Come on down! let me know if you’ll be joining us!
“Them” is very much ‘Us”
Shel Israel wrote a powerful post a couple days ago. I just saw it. It’s in the general theme of social networks, but really it’s about bigotry. A Must-Read:
http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2008/02/its-them.html
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Danah Boyd on socialization in the digital world
In this video interview, Danah Boyd makes some great points about lack of socialization of kids. Lack of space for them to gather and be social even in with their own friends and some of the factors making this happen. Then she talks about how they DO socialize, online… OK, there’s a few asides regarding Scoble being different from normal users, but the rest is fascinating stuff.
Danah Boyd interview by Robert Scoble, at Davos:
Danah Boyd is a researcher who studies teens ad their online interactions. See more on Danah at her website.
You can also read about her on Wikipedia