danah boyd posted a rough sketch of a talk she gave at the Web2.0 conference in November: Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media.

There's lots of good thoughts about how people interface with the online world there, but the last paragraph caught my attention. She said that Monetizing Social Media ( Read more... )

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Challenges and accessibility

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From fox1013Hey, LJ. I'm going to do that thing I do as rarely as possible and get serious for a second ( Read more... )

I Hate "Teachable Moments": Disability and Fanfiction, or How Not to Fail at Disability in Comments by attackfish

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Twelve generations from now, people like me will still be writing posts like this. by
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Your music is bad and you should feel bad! I have a problem with the fact that people are creating [sexually explicit fic and art of the Surveyfail "researchers"] with the intention of maliciously shoving them in the subjects' faces, specifically for the purpose of humiliating them. --
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Second Best by severusslave.Pairings: Kirk/Spock Prime, Spock/Uhura
Summary: Ambassador Spock was more than he could be, no wonder Kirk chose him.

What I'm Trying To Say (Star Trek, Kirk/Gaila) Except this is really Gaila's story, and Kirk is nearly beside the point. It's a sweet little story about Gaila trying to negotiate human norms in order to express ( Read more... )

I was talking about doing reviews the other day, and, lo,
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Lunch and Other Obscenities by rheanna27 Uhura and Gaila and people performing completely inappropriate activities in public. Also, occasionally Spock.

99 Bowls of Plomeek Soup on the Wall by
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