December 2010
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“… each social utility affords a distinct way for brands to form a...”
– My comments to a post by Brian Solis.
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Quick Thoughts on Combining Computer Science and...
Having watched a presentation by Prabhakar Raghavan, Chief Scientist at Yahoo!, I am becoming increasingly-excited about my decision to study for an MA in Social Research. Coming from a Computer Science background I have recognised that my future will be inhibited by not being able to articulate my work in terms of the social. Prabhakar sees the bigger question as being “not about what can...
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“The future of publishing has three convergent trends: smaller, easier, more...”
– Some great thoughts from Terry Jones on the future of publishing. Interesting to me as an author who maintains a growing Social Web presence for my book. I publish my book source code online, and offer several interaction points for readers. As I shared in an interview with Ben Barden I still...
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Computing and the Social Sciences: The Opportunity... →
Amazing words from Yahoo! Chief Scientist Prabhakar Raghavan:
The Web has highlighted the need for computer science to work closely with the social and economic sciences. By blending principles from mechanism design, algorithms, machine learning and massive distributed computing, search engines have become good at optimising monetisation on sound scientific principles. This represents a successful...
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Quick Sociological Thoughts on PROMs
Today, I listened to a presentation on the use of questionnaires, paper and electronic, for Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs). I’m not here to question and debate PROMs, or the use of technology, but what I do wish to debate is the choice of questionnaire as a “gold standard” for PROMs. I wondered whether the affordance of questionnaires as a source of structured, rigid...
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“ActivityStreams + PubSubHubbub + Salmon + Context (+ Platform) + Identity +...”
– @markhawker on the future of the Social Web.
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LinkedIn Resume Builder →
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My Socio-Technical Trends for 2011
In 2010 we saw lots of new technology and digital services appearing on the shelves, on our screens, and in our hands. Take the Apple iPad, the rise of Android, Google TV, 3D-TV, and “celebrities” on Twitter. All-in-all a fun year. But, where are we heading? Here are some of my own thoughts which have been influenced by predictions made by Jeremiah Owyang, Harvard Business Review, and...
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“Social networking will become pervasive and third-party tools will embed social...”
– Part of a series looking at the past, present, and future of social networks by Mark Suster.
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“2011 is the year of integration.”
– Keynote presentation from Jeremiah Owyang at LeWeb.
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“The idea is to push information to people.”
– Google’s Marissa Mayer on “contextual discovery” at LeWeb. The next big thing.
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Six Social Media Trends for 2011 →
Harvard Business Review gives its six trends to watch out for next year. Very pleased to see “Social Functionality Makes Websites Fashionable Again” made an appearance as that’s exactly what my book is about. Fun times.
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“Could (online) social interaction be measured via “return on...”
– @markhawker pondering measurement.
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“I think privacy is a function of how much you want to control what you value. In...”
– A tweet from @jmathai in response to my question: “Is privacy a function of what you have to hide plus what you have to lose?”.
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Mark My Videos 1.0 →
As I venture deeper into the Social Web I think it’s important to not only share my activities in terms of blog posts and tweets, but also through the sharing of my favourite videos from across the Web. If you’re interested in the Social Web, Android, and anything in-between please subscribe! See you on YouTube.
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Ontology, Epistemology, Methodology, and Social...
In previous posts (here and here) I wrote about the sociological concepts of ontology, epistemology, and methodology:
Ontology is the study of reality.
Epistemology is the study of knowledge.
Methodology is the study of methods.
In researching a particular “problem” these three concepts could be linked. For example, you could adopt an objectivist ontology believing reality exists...