INTERPERSONAL DIVIDE is a thoughtful book about community and the online world, and I’ve just discovered that the author, Michael Bugeja, has put sample syllabi on his website. And beautifully organized – I am impressed! Would love to hear from anyone who’s used these materials.

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I don’t know that I’d agree about this being a community, but an interesting use of the word at the Ecology of Education blog: Google Earth, on the flip side, is less of a product, and more of a community, as in this Google Earth Blog. Ecology, by the way, means the study of communities.

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I have no idea what iClone is, but there is a note I recognize here and it’s interesting to see someone writing about their desire to find a community, and their using online algorithms in the process. Finding My People – Online Communities | The Undisclosed Studio Blog. I came across this thanks to Google [...]

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“We spend more and more time online, but feel less and less connected.” via 10 Reasons to Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life – Alexandra Samuel – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review.

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Thanks to @ethan (Ethan Zuckerman) for link to this editorial in the Stabroek News, a paper in Guyana (a nation on the northern coast of South America): “Elsewhere Communities.” An impressively literary editorial, but I’m not sure there’s an argument that holds – or even an argument being made. Kenner was talking about imagination, and [...]

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Survey Finds Citations Growing Narrower as Journals Move Online, Jennifer Couzin, 08/07/18, Science : 329. A sociologist argues on page 395 of this week’s issue of Science that making scholarly articles available online has narrowed citations to more recent and less diverse articles than before–the opposite of what most people expected. (…) Oddly, “our studies [...]

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I started this post in the autumn of 2008 and it’s wrong. I thought that online social networking would level out because people would be too busy trying to keep their jobs or find new ones to fool around at Facebook. With the cash squeeze, I thought that free social networking sites would have their [...]

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From LinkedIn, 14 June 2008, an exchange that includes a statement that is worth looking at, as we think about what creates viable, vibrant communities: “anything that reduces participation in the network (such as… see more charging a subscription fee) is unlikely to add value.” I realize that that’s a common position in the online [...]

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