community

  • Other Stuff
    Paul Turner (the guy who runs the art house theater in Corvallis) finally moved his weekly commentary to a blog instead of email.
    filed under: weblogs, community, corvallis, oregon
May 2nd, 2007, 6:45 pm
Apr 16th, 2007, 7:49 pm
Feb 11th, 2007, 6:45 pm
  • apophenia: about those walled gardens
    danah starts a discussion about virtual walled gardens, gated communities, whatever you want to call them. Be sure to check out the comments. The central question to me is: "who owns the walls?"
    filed under: internet, privacy, community, identity
Feb 6th, 2007, 6:46 pm
Dec 11th, 2006, 6:45 pm
  • Serious Eats
    New culinary site by Megnut, Apperceptive, and the rest! "Serious Eats, the first website for serious eaters, consists of video, blogs, photos, and feature stories and all geared toward the foods people love."
    filed under: food, community, weblogs, rss
  • Google Video: The Century of the Self
    BBC series documenting the birth of psychological advertising, public relations, and the "manufactured consent" of the dangerous crowd. [via galbraith]
    filed under: media, marketing, psychology
  • REST for toddlers [dive into mark]
    could be titled--everything you need to know about parenting you can learn from HTTP response codes. [via nelson]
    filed under: programming, joke, language
  • Google Custom Search Engine
    You can use this tool to create a search engine limited to specific sites. [via superpatron]
    filed under: google, hacks
Dec 8th, 2006, 6:45 pm
  • outside.in
    a hyperlocal blog/news aggregator headed by Steven Johnson [via kottke], with some thoughts about the project from SBJ: Introducing outside.in.
    filed under: community, weblogs, startup, geo
As you know I'm a huge fan of hyperlocal info, and I'll be watching this closely. They have some interesting ideas (tying geography to posts rather than blogs), and I wonder how that will work practically. And how will this scale without an army of editors? How is a blog chosen for inclusion? How do they plan to deal with spam? How do you weed out posts that have nothing to do with the locality (is it solely keyword/category sifting)? Do they plan to ask weblog authors to include metadata with each post? I have dozens of questions for them about hurdles I've run into running a local community aggregator.
Oct 25th, 2006, 10:18 am
Oct 4th, 2006, 6:46 pm

Amazon Adds Comments

Just noticed that Amazon is now allowing comments on each review. It looks like this:

amazon review comments
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For years, Amazon has tried to keep people from having conversations via reviews with careful instructions about not referencing other reviews. But that didn't stop people from conversing. You often see things like, "Reviewer x is off his rocker..." or "I don't know what some of these reviewers are thinking..." in Amazon reviews. Now people can talk to each other directly.

If people know that their reviews are "thread starters" rather than isolated posts, you could get more chatty reviews with open-ended questions designed to provoke discussion. You should also get more flame wars, more trolling, all of the standard online discussion problems. (Especially with an audience as large as Amazon's.) And how do you police comments on millions of reviews? Does each reviewer "own" the thread associated with the review? If so, shouldn't they be able to approve/edit comments on that review? Is it fair to allow comments on a review from six years ago, when the author of that review isn't expecting feedback, and likely isn't tuning into the page anymore?

On the positive side, you might get a better view of a product because discussion can bring out more detail. Should be interesting.
Sep 19th, 2006, 12:05 pm · 5 comments
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