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Category Archives: social web
Hashtag Contexts
I wouldn’t have expected a thing like a hashtag in Twitter or FriendFeed to become a rhetorical device as well as a functional one, but that’s exactly what I see happening. (For those of you that just asked “Hashtag? What now?” here’s a nice summary of how it works on Twitter.) Looking back, I can [...]
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Low-Key Cooperative Continual Professional Development
A few years ago, my library decided to start a cooperative blog where we’d alert each other to developments in the wider world of librarianship, highlight interesting things we’d learned, and generally help each other keep up. There was enthusiasm, there was drive, there was an interesting blog… and then it died. As far as [...]
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The Ebb and Flow of My Online Communities
Online communities, like those in the face-to-face world, are fascinating to watch. They coalesce, wrap in on themselves, fray around the edges, unwrap a little, shift, possibly acquire new members or even glom onto a new core group of members, coalesce, wrap in on themselves, fray around the edges… and on and on. Take my [...]
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Clinical Reader Train Wreck Just Keeps Going
Some day I’ll get bored of watching this train wreck in progress. But not yet. If you are, you can skip right over this post and rest in the knowledge that you’re more mature than I am. Remember last week when Clinical Reader had only threatened a blogger, been exposed as having made up endorsements, [...]
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Dear Facebook: Leave Me Alone