July 2011
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MoJo Assignment #2: User Incentives
Week two of the Knight Mozilla News Lab featured lectures from Jesse James Garret, John Resig and Christian Heilmann.
@jeresig’s and @jjg’s lectures were especially interesting as they focused on what qualities make projects and products accessible to users. This is something that Aza Raskin has also contended with in his blogs regarding his new project Massive Health.
How can we...
Tim Harford — Article — Why social marketing... →
I don’t like the assumption that lays under Tim Harford’s analysis. Why should we presume that twitter cascades are anything but rare and tiny? Retweeting and mass attention is weighted as the rarity that it is. How often, in a world controlled and directed by users, do you think it is possible to sync up the attention of a large number of people all at one time?
I can also tell...
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MoJo Assignment #1: On the subject of Process
As I am auditing Mozilla News Lab, I’m going to deviate from the assignments a little bit. Later this week, or early next week I will explain why I am auditing instead of participating as a potential fellow, but for now I’d like to discuss two impressions that I have.
As an outsider, I’ve been quite frustrated at some of the opinions and debates that journalists have had about...
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Recent experiences in Twitter spam
I’ve noticed an uptick in twitter spam recently, and knowing some people who work at twitter, i’ve been trying to keep an eye out for particularly egregious cases that i might be able to point their way. There’re a lot of spammers who are the equivalent of smash and grab artists. Spin up a new account, blast as many people as one can with links, as quickly as possible until...