Tag: tools

http://culturedigitally.org/2012/01/affordances-technical-agency-and-the-politics-of-technologies-of-cultural-production-2/

http://culturedigitally.org/2012/01/affordances-technical-agency-and-the-politics-of-technologies-of-cultural-production-2/

Social construction of tools, etc. “Kelly is a prime example of the influential folks in Silicon Valley who would fail any graduate course in Science and Technology Studies for this kind of commitment to technological determinism.” Ha ;)

http://www.openmoney.org/go/cc.html

http://www.openmoney.org/go/cc.html

“One user establishes an account, and creates – “establishes” – a currency, just like opening an email group – pick an short but distinctive name for your currency. Let the other users know the currency name so they can similarly establish an account and register to use that currency. All users who register to use the new currency can trade around on line in a virtual way. “

The Fans Are All Right (Pinboard Blog)

The Fans Are All Right (Pinboard Blog)

a) This is adorable. b) “Avos did a similar thing last week when they relaunched Delicious while breaking every feature that made their core users so devoted to the site (networks, bundles, subscriptions and feeds). They seemed to have no idea who their most active users were, or how strongly those users cared about the product. In my mind this reinforced the idea that they had bought Delicious simply as a convenient installed base of ‘like’ buttons scattered across the internet, with the intent of building a completely new social site unrelated to saving links.”