Summary: Week 7

This week my focus has been mostly directed towards the digital ethnographic study of the Diaspora community.  I freely admit that I have really enjoyed the study, but even more so, diving into this exciting new social network.  I see Diaspora as a potentially game changing development and hold high hopes for its success.  Other [...]

Mini Digital Ethnographic Study: Diaspora

Introduction Diaspora is a distributed social network running on a collection of open source personal webservers across the Internet.  Diaspora is a community of passionate users who control their own data, control who sees it and who can harvest it. Diaspora is a project that I have been observing from a distance since the announcement [...]

Summary: Week 6

Its hard to believe that we are already half way through the term.  The life stream is a great way to review my journey through the course content and I really have the feeling that the content I’m pushing into it is becoming more focused each week.  This week I continued my arrival story into [...]