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People Being People Online

Social media is just people being people online. From sites like Facebook and Twitter, through to Livejournal, IRC, MUDs and email lists, it was behaviour more than the technologies’ intended design that shaped how these tools were used. Twitter’s hashtags, … Read More

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Democratised Content & Barriers of Entry

Ever since someone decided to perpetuate the term ‘Web 2.0′ as a repositioning exercise for online communities that have existed for as long as the internet has, there has been a deluge of purple prose dedicated to telling ourselves and the entire world exactly how wonderful everything online with white space and glossy glass effect graphics is.

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