Tag: identity

  • Yet another friend metaphor (for twitter)

    So I just wasted, er, spent a half hour surfing twitter pages and poaching friends of friends. I noticed that I had a strong gut sense of who I felt it was ok to befriend, most of the time, but that it doesn’t necessarily map to people who are actually my friends or whom I’ve…

  • Signing up for the sake of signing up

    Grab your preferred username at Useless Account before someone else does! Today’s web is crazy. Open ID is a pipe dream. Every direction you turn you’re forced to create yet another account. Most of the time it’s for one of those throw-away web startups created 10 times a day, but occasionally it’s worth the effort.…

  • See me speak at South by Southwest

    In March I’ll be moderating a panel at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas, called “Every Breath You Take: Identity, Attention, Presence, and Reputation Online.” Confirmed panelists include George Kelly, Kaliya Hamlin, Ted Nadeau, and Mary Hodder. I’m anticipating a lively dialogue tackling how we project and define our identities online, what it means…