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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 […]

I’ve been doing a bit of digging on how Google News ranks their results and figured that the World Intellectual Property Web site was as good a place to start as any.  According to the patent description, “In accordance with one implementation consistent with the principles of the invention, a method for ranking results is […]