Ideas

a good launch article might be how social media is used to make the world better. For instance Freecycle is my favorite site of the day. People give away stuff to others in their ‘hood. I just got rid of a 15 year old frig that otherwise would have hit the dump. One mans’s garbage is another man’s treasure. Or something like that. There are other examples too, this is just a current fave site.

Or maybe it’s called micro-hiring. With aggregation of lifestreams being the focus of late, are there opportunities for small or young groups tapping into “Expert Lifestreams”? The idea is getting little bits of experts’ opinions and knowledge available to the less knowledgeable.

• Breaking groupthink by injecting dynamic knowledge-sharing into homogenous groups

• Personal assistants to organize and sort through Lifestreams to accomplish speci…

I’m working on a presentation for the SHIFT confernece (shift.pt) on the blurring lines between professional and personal interactions due to new technologies, and social mediation is a huge part of that.

How is our cultural expectations around the line between professional and personal changing due to social mediation in networked software?

eh?

I’m interested in how social networks can be visualized or modelled (by node, by branched connections, by volume, and so on), and what software can help realize this.

Are certain people ‘supernodes?’ Do supernodes have a natural proximity to each other or perhaps a natural repulsion? What would that look like graphically?