My name is danah boyd and I'm a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I live in Boston, MA. Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking.

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Archive

off to see the wizard

Why Microsoft-only development is foolish business logic

Ambidextrous Magazine

FOO Camp – Are you a werewolf? Yes OR No!?!?

Erin McKeown tonite

reshelving project

ephemeral data

feeds and social bookmarks

pandora: authority-driven music streams

Wikipedia used for viral marketing