Posts By: jiyanwei

Originally published in The Journal of New Media & Culture (Winter 2007) At a recent conference, I overheard one communications professional ask another, “What is our Web 2.0 strategy?” I wondered what exactly they meant by a Web 2.0 strategy, despite my background and experience with the Web and new media, and, soon after, decided […]

This is a little strange – I was doing some research on television content migrating onto the Web and ended up running the same query – for ‘arrested development’ on Mozilla and Internet Explorer, and found that the MSNBC site hosting the video content ranked higher in a Google search run on IE than on […]

I’ve been toying with different ways of analogizing and thinking about widgets and have come up with the following: Widgets are legoizing(made-up word) the World Wide Web. Widgets turn the Web from a plain old toy robot into Voltron. Widgets heterogenize (I think this is a made-up word) the Web. Widgets compartmentalize the Web. Widgets are […]

The New Communications Review just published a piece I authored a while back entitled, “The Articulation of Power in Social Media.”  The piece is actually an adaptation of my dissertation, which I hope has actually becoming readable thanks to the work of Nina Shariff from v-Fluence.  I am happy with this version of it, which […]

37signals is a small development shop based out of Chicago that a former v-Fluence colleague of mine told me about several years ago.  They build collaborative software that places a premium on simplicity and usability – two of my favorite things.  I was laying in bed leafing through Time Magazine last night when I stumbled […]