Twitter as Political Anthropology

February 27th, 2008

Clinton / Obama Twitter Stats

These screenshots of the two democratic candidates’ twitter accounts were taken February 27, 2008 (a search for John McCain on Twitter did not return any results). Notice the number of followers and following for each of them. The Clinton campaign isn’t following anyone. The Obama campaign is actually following more people than it has followers. Fascinating.

On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re A Dog - But Maybe They Do

December 30th, 2007

A companion piece to the famous New Yorker cartoon… thanks to Rob Cottingham / Social Signal

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MacArthur Foundation Events: Totally Wired - How Technology is Changing Kids and Learning

December 10th, 2007

Listen to a podcast of the MacArthur Foundation sponsored forum, How is digital media changing kids and learning? held December 12, 2007 in Cambridge, MA and in Second Life. The line-up included Henry Jenkins, Katie Salen, and Howard Gardner.

Also of interest, the webcast of What Are Kids Learning in Virtual Worlds, supported by MacArthur and hosted by Common Sense Media, November 14, 2007.

Video Poem: Still, I Am Perfect

November 27th, 2007

A video poem by a friend, Maurice Eidelsberg, who woke up one day with the idea of putting his poems to video…

What Did *You* Do Today? How We Define Our Work

November 27th, 2007

The new world of work according to Doonesbury. Jeff goes online and saves the world.