I’m falling further and further behind. All social and non-required professional activities are on hold. Email is dying. Blog reading/commenting is a month behind. Eeeek. Of course, i continue to blog to procrastinate things or to get my head out of my toosh.

But, alas, i have a stack of blog entries that i wanted to comment on. Instead, i’m just going to list them since this blog is in-part my journal of interesting found objects/ideas and i’m not going to be up for air until late April at the earliest.

YASNS:

Explaining social networks to non-techies (lack of sustainability concerns)

Managing your Orkut Celebrity (really good reflection on Justin’s reflection that hi-profile digi-people don’t need these services to create an online identity)

Auren reflects on his LinkedIn data (Offline, i challenged him with thinking about how this technology is making his introduction rituals more time consuming and less helpful)

Social Software Weblog – too much goodness from them in February to link to specific entries.

Chris Allen’s advice to YASNS folks

Blogging:

How to Network with Blogger (and ScottAllen’s Part 2)

Blogging and Habermas

Live Journal:

Live Journal is producing FOAF right now. Personally, i’m frustrated with FOAF because it fails to address the social problems… it just focuses on the transparency of information problems. Everyone’s rallying behind it but not realizing that their rally cry makes it harder to do sociably good social networks. More on that when breathing.

LiveJournal is trying to unpack the concept of friends – this should be fascinating to watch

Other:

Socio-technical shifts wrt broadcasting