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how to pin down web 2.0
by Barry Wellman 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

One brute force approach which wouldn't take long is to a successive Google search on "1990" and "web 2.0"; "1991" and "web 2.0" etc. You'll get some noise and some nuggests, I reckon. Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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arranged marriages 21st century
by Barry Wellman 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

1. It's time for a rewrite of _A Suitable Boy_ taking matrimonial sites into account. 2. A former Muslim Indian-Canadian student of mine had an arranged marriage to a co-ethnic IT guy, but she turned down 2 possibles beforehand. She's now writing a story with me called "How I Arranged My Arranged Marriage" (title copyright by Uzma and me). Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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Internet Usage in India
by Nicole Reinhold 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Dear all, I'm interested in Internet usage in India, in quantitative number but even more in what services, sites are popular and why. Especially I would like to learning more about user generated content and social networking sites in the Indian online community. Is there anybody with the same interest or that is part of the Indian online community that can share her/his experience. I'm also thankful for any related report, link or publication. Thanks Nicole MA. Nicole Reinhold, Senior Research Consultant Philips Design nicole.reinhold(a)philips.com, http://www.design.philips.com

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Re: [Air-l] Journal or conference articles on web 2.0
by Paul DiPerna 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

This has been a curiosity for me too.. In the popular press, Tim O'Reilly has been credited with first coining the term, but my understanding is that it was commonplace for software releases (emphasizing social and communications features) to attach "Web 2.0" after product names. We see this on press releases as early as 1996. Roots for the "Web 2.0" term may go a lot further back than we think. Perseus SurveySolutions released software they called "Web 2.0" on its own, which won a PC Magazine Editors Choice Award in February 2000. For fun I just used High Beam to scan press releases on "web 2.0".. I came across a joint press release by organizations called FileNet and BEA Systems, dated April 29, 2003: "Gordon Simpson, deputy CTO from BEA Systems, is slated to speak on "Web 2.0: Integration Today and Tomorrow" today at 10:00 a.m. PDT.... Organizations are continually challenged by the need to increase access to timely information, lower operating costs, and improve relationships with employees, customers and partners. Using BEA WebLogic Integration(TM), FileNet and BEA can solve business integration and portal requirements by bringing together information and data that is spread throughout an enterprise." According to this O'Reilly Media post (below) brainstorming for the first Web 2.0 conference began in 2003. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/05/controversy_about_our_web_20_s.ht… A major caveat that this is fly-by research... and it's not clear if O'Reilly's private discussions occurred before, during, or after BEA's Web 2.0 speaking engagements on April 29 and July 11, in 2003. I don't know if there had been any ties between BEA Systems and O'Reilly, but it looks as though BEA might have been putting forth Web 2.0 as a collaboration-generating concept, at least for an organization's internal improvements, almost a year before O'Reilly Media began to use the term publicly and widely. On May 3 2004, O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International issued their joint press release announcing their October 2004 Web 2.0 Conference. - Paul ------------- Paul DiPerna Blau Exchange http://www.blauexchange.org email: pdiperna(a)blauexchange.org online ID: http://claimid.com/pdiperna

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Journal or conference articles on web 2.0
by Martin Garthwaite 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Dear All, WEB 2.0 seems to be very much in vogue at the moment, I'm researching web 2.0 for a short essay and was wondering if any members of the list have read / plublished work on any aspect of web 2.0. Thanks in advance. -- Martin Garthwaite +447957 764819 Skype id mgarthwaite1330 MS IM marting(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Air-l] Journal or conference articles on web 2.0
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Is the paper for publication, and if so what venue, or for a term paper, and if so what level? As others have said -- LOTS out there, starting with Tim OReilly's writings when he coined the term (or at least is attributed as having coined it). Can someone confirm who used the term first. /C ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:30:51 +0100 >From: "Martin Garthwaite" <marting(a)gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [Air-l] Journal or conference articles on web 2.0 >To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > >I intended to be specifically vague (-: > >I'm writing a paper on What web 2.0 is and why do we care? > >Hope that helps? > >Martin. > >On 4/19/07, Ellie Wix <elliewix(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Just to throw one out that I'm interested in, how about social >> organization? You don't have to list all that you have, just a key one >> that >> would have a good ref section. >> >> On 4/19/07, Kurt Luther <luther(a)cc.gatech.edu> wrote: >> > >> > Seems like you would need to be more specific. danah boyd has done tons >> > of work with social networking sites and tagging; Fernanda Viégas and >> > Martin Wattenberg have published several excellent Wikipedia papers, >> > Henry Jenkins has been writing books about participatory culture for a >> > decade, etc. >> > >> > Kurt >> > >> > -- >> > Kurt Luther >> > Ph.D. Student, College of Computing >> > Georgia Institute of Technology >> > Atlanta, Georgia, USA >> > >> > >> > Martin Garthwaite wrote: >> > > Dear All, >> > > >> > > WEB 2.0 seems to be very much in vogue at the moment, I'm researching >> > web >> > > 2.0 for a short essay and was wondering if any members of the list >> have >> > read >> > > / plublished work on any aspect of web 2.0. >> > > >> > > Thanks in advance. >> > > >> > > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> > >> > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> > http://www.aoir.org/ >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > > > >-- >Martin Garthwaite > >PhD candidate, London Knowledge Lab www.lkl.ac.uk > >+447957 764819 >Skype id mgarthwaite1330 >MS IM marting(a)gmail.com >_______________________________________________ >The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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A Crystal Ball
by James Whyte 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

I was given a Physics textbook that is 99 years old. In looking at the discussion of the electrical potential of gasses, I realized how much the science of electricity has changed in the interim. It raises the question about the history of the Internet in the post creation era. Here are the questions. 100 years from now what will scholars be writing about the current literature and studies? What will the state of science be? What will be folklore and what will be the state of formal knowledge? If you comment, please speculate as an informed scholar. (on-list or off-list). James --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.

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new book opportunity
by Barry Wellman 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

DK more than this, forwarded by a friend Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ Invitation: Please consider to contribute and distribute to the appropriate groups the following ##################### Call for chapters: University of Leipzig, University of Bamberg and the German Society for Online Research (DGOF): Title: Communication, participation and impact in the Social Web â Weblogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Communities in an interdisciplinary view Editors: Prof. Dr. Ansgar ZerfaÃ, UniversitÃ¤t Leipzig, Communication Management and Public Relations Dr. Martin Welker, UniversitÃ¤t Leipzig, Journalism; DGOF board Dr. Jan Schmidt, UniversitÃ¤t Bamberg, Research Unit âNew Media for Communicationâ Series of publications: New Texts on Online Research, Volume 2 German Society for Online Research (Ed.) Publisher: Herbert von Halem Verlag (Cologne) To be published: January 2008 Size: About 350 pages, 16 to 20 papers Ã¡ 15 â 20 pages Language: German and English We welcome papers which highlight the discussion of effects in and of the so so called âWeb 2.0â. We appreciate also papers which apply methods of online research like online questionnaires, logfile analysis or experimental approaches like research via avatars. As we promoting a transdisciplinary view we welcome also papers from professional research companies or corporations researching the Web 2.0 phenomenon for their businesses. Possible questions of interest: Does Web 2.0 allow for methodological innovation? How can social science and neighbouring disciplines deal with Web 2.0? How can Web 2.0 applications be used as research tools? How can we conceptualise the heterogeneous spaces of Web 2.0? Please send your paper until 15th of May to onlineforschung2(a)yahoogroups.de You will receive an answer of acceptance until the 15th of June. Best Regards, ==================================================== Dr. Martin Welker Tel: (0341) 97 35 755 E-Mail: welker(a)uni-leipzig.de www.dgof.de www.gor.de Universitaet Leipzig Institut fuer Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft Abteilung Journalistik, Management fÃ¼r Abteilungsleitung und Studienfachberatung Burgstrasse 21, 04109 Leipzig

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Sharing Doctoral Experiences in Digital Government Research
by Yigal Arens 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Sharing Doctoral Experiences in Digital Government Research Sunday, May 20, 2007, 9:00 am to 12:00 noon This workshop primarily provides a forum for Ph.D. students working on topics related to Digital Government to share their research experiences with their peers. At the same time, invited senior faculty and researchers will address the audience, offering suggestions and guidance with respect to performing interdisciplinary research and succeeding after graduation. To participate, students should submit an extended abstract of not more than two pages based on their doctoral work (formatted as per the general conference guidelines) by April 30th. Presentations will be selected among submitted abstracts. All accepted abstracts will be included in a booklet showcasing Ph.D. research related to Digital Government, to be distributed during the conference. Inclusion in the booklet requires enrollment and participation in the workshop. Submission Deadline April 30, 2007 Main Contact Professor Peggy Agouris Center for Earth Observing and Space Research George Mason University E-Mail: pagouris(a)gmu.edu Ph. (703) 993 9265 Fax (703) 993 9299

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Peder Inge Furseth/s/BISTIFT is out of the office.
by peder.i.furseth＠bi.no 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

I will be out of the office starting 18.04.2007 and will not return until 20.04.2007. Thank you for contacting me. I have limited access to my email as I am attending a conference in San Francisco. Please send an SMS to (+47)46.41.06.12 if you need to get hold of me immediately.

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