From David Kirkpatrick’s “The Net’s not-so-secret economy of crime” (Fortune: 15 May 2006):
Raze Software offers a product called CC2Bank 1.3, available in freeware form - if you like it, please pay for it. …
But CC2Bank’s purpose is the management of stolen credit cards. Release 1.3 enables you to type in any credit card number and [...]
Posted on June 4th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s “The Water Rush” (Oxford American):
Anywhere else, the four and a half acres of muddy, flat grass cross-hatched by asphalt paths and crowned by a green-pink-and-white gazebo would be the town park. Here in Berkeley Springs[, West Virginia], population 663, “the country’s first spa,†it is a state park. It is, in fact, [...]
Posted on June 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Ross Guberman’s “Home Is Where the Heart Is” (Legal Affairs: November/December 2004):
ABOUT 50 MILLION AMERICANS BELONG TO HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATIONS, also known as HOAs or common-interest developments, which are composed of single-family homes, condominiums, or co-ops. Four out of five new homes, ranging from starter homes to high-rise apartments to gated mansions, are in one [...]
Posted on May 30th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From David P. Reed’s “That Sneaky Exponential - Beyond Metcalfe’s Law to the Power of Community Building“:
Bob Metcalfe, inventor of the Ethernet, is known for pointing out that the total value of a communications network grows with the square of the number of devices or people it connects. This scaling law, along with Moore’s Law, [...]
Posted on May 9th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Ulises Ali Mejias’ “A del.icio.us study: Bookmark, Classify and Share: A mini-ethnography of social practices in a distributed classification community“:
This principle of distribution is at work in socio-technical systems that allow users to collaboratively organize a shared set of resources by assigning classifiers, or tags, to each item. The practice is coming to be [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From James Grimmelmann’s “Life, Death, and Democracy Online“:
… The necessity of a ‘Quit’ option is obvious; no adventure game yet invented can force an unwilling player to continue playing. She can always give the game the three-finger salute, flip the power switch, or throw her computer in the junk heap. …
Banishment is the absolute worst [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From danah boyd’s “G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide“:
Culture is the set of values, norms and artifacts that influence people’s lives and worldview. Culture is embedded in material objects and in conceptual frameworks about how the world works. …
People are a part of multiple cultures - the most obvious of which are constructed [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Ross Mayfield’s “The Weakening of Strong Ties“:
Mark Granovetter’s seminal paper, The Strength of Weak Ties (summary), revealed the difference between friends and acquaintances and how useful acquaintances can be for certain tasks like finding a job. The difference between a strong tie and weak tie can generally be revealed by time commitment underpinning the [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Bruce Schneier’s “Brandeis Quote on Openness“:
Louis D. Brandeis, Other People’s Money and How the Bankers Use It 92 (1914): “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”
[Note: Also in Harper's Weekly, Dec 20 1913]
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Posted on April 1st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From The New York Times Magazine’s “Skin Literature“:
Most artists spend their careers trying to create something that will live forever. But the writer Shelley Jackson is creating a work of literature that is intentionally and indisputably mortal. Jackson is publishing her latest short story by recruiting 2,095 people, each of whom will have one word [...]
Posted on April 1st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “Study: Want Community? Go Online” [emphasis added]:
Nearly 40 percent of Americans say they participate in online communities, with sites around hobbies, shared personal interests, and health-related issues among the most popular. That’s according to a survey conducted by ACNielsen and commissioned by eBay.
The survey was conducted in late September. Of 1,007 respondents, 87 [...]
Posted on January 29th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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