Keith Hampton - who worked on the pioneering Netville project with social networks guru Barry Wellman - has started blogging. See Keith Hampton's Homepage One project is E-neighbors - a longitudinal study of how new communication technologies can be used to build social capital in a neighborhood setting.
Kevin Harris, who gave me the reference, also pointed me to an excellent article on social network analysis by Peter Morville that ties together a lot of thinking on how people connect, learn and share. 'We humans are very social animals. It's about time more of us started recognizing this in the systems we design. "
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