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Avant Game: Memories of a Dead Seer: Werewolf at Foocamp08!

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Jane McGonigal on Werewolf. - Brian Oberkirch

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Fire Eagle for WordPress

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Fire Eagle plug in for WordPress - Brian Oberkirch

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SitePoint Blogs » Study: Why Most Online Communities Fail

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Boondoggle. - Brian Oberkirch

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Episode 2 of The Social Web TV is Now Up

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I like your shows :) - Travis Parsons

Thanks, Travis! I'm blessed by being part of an incredible team working on this show. And I am really psyched for next week, when we'll be shooting on location at Facebook's F8 conference! - John McCrea

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I caught episode 1 and, really enjoyed it. Haven't watched 2 all the way through yet but, so far so good! Keep them coming. - Candace Holly

It would be fun to have guests as well.. So far the content selection has been excellent and very relevant (at least for me) - Travis Parsons

Travis, that's certainly the plan. Thanks! - John McCrea

Nice going, John. - wrecks

Woohoo...I'm famous. *grin* I'll keep checking for a podcast feed...if things start flowing right, I'll definitely update ya! Oh, and another good show, btw. I do definitely like the content; I wouldn't push for enclosure feed if I didn't care. - Ken Kennedy

Ken, thanks! We appreciate your help on this. - John McCrea

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10 questions with Rob Walker: Church of the Customer Blog

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Good interview with Rob. Need to finish that book & try to write about it. - Brian Oberkirch

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The Fun-O-Meter, An Idea Vending Machine by Jake Bronstein

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Great little everyday life hack. - Brian Oberkirch

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Joss Whedon’s Wacky Web Experiment Kicks Off

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Watched a few minutes of this & loved it. Be interesting to see how it does. - Brian Oberkirch

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Sphere highlighted in Business Week article - web design case study

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Dan is the man. - Brian Oberkirch

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“Recent advice to a networking-obsessed "Web 2.0" friend of mine: Stop being a moon, start being a planet.”

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Who is John Snow?

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Snow did, however, redesign the work by carefully eliminating elements and emphasizing the casualty data until the narrative of what had happened was perfectly clear. You can't look at that map without thinking, "Yikes! Stay away from that pump!" Snow's early geo-mashup can still inspire. - Brian Oberkirch

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kung fu grippe - The Loopt SMS Mess

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Merlin on the Loopt SMS spam invite thing. - Brian Oberkirch

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Mobile, AL, USA

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This is where my people hail from. Just driving through to get to LA? - Do You KNOW Clarence?

No, all my family is from Mobile. I was born there, went to college there & think of it as my home that I just don't live in. - Brian Oberkirch

Small world :) All of mine is from Mobile as well. A lot of them are still there, and the rest migrated to Seattle. - Do You KNOW Clarence?

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“The Social Web TV #1 is now up. @johnmccrea, @jsmarr and I chat about Gnip, Identi.ca, XMPP, and other cool stuff. http://tinyurl.com/63jjpa”

July 11 at 10:49 am - Link

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Let us know what you think, and please suggest potential topics and potential guests for future episodes! - John McCrea

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PostRank

July 10 at 2:58 pm - Link

Want to look more at this. Can chi.mp contribute to it? - Brian Oberkirch

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“I repeatedly learn the lesson that it's not the data but the filters on the data that supply you with amazing insights.”

July 9 at 2:54 pm - Link

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This is Scott Rafer's MO. Find data no one cares about. Give them a way to care about it. - Brian Oberkirch

Brynn M Evans posted a message on Twitter

“Everyone talks about "social" but ppl's use of this term is rly broad. What r examples of web actions that r NOT SOCIAL? Let's start there.”

July 9 at 11:33 am - Link

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The online banking I do is typically not social, though a la Wesabe, we see some interesting applications of group data. - Brian Oberkirch

porn and banking.are the first things that came to my head. - chartreuse

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I hear porn, banking, healthcare, but that even these are becoming social in some ways. @bokardo says "social" may be a 2nd order motivation. So does the user's intention matter? - Brynn M Evans

wesabe:social banking::google:social search! PornTube:porn videos::YouTube:trampoline videos. - Chris Messina

its not the 'social' word thats wrong, its that its not being applied to words other than media. my thoughts: http://is.gd/PsX - Jeremy Toeman

Wesabe makes banking somewhat social. If you could BabyCenter as healthcare it's social. Porn is totally social (AdultFriendFinder) - Clay Newton

I can't really think of things that aren't social, more like a lot of poorly implemented "social things". - Clay Newton

Clay: are you saying everything you do online is (or should be) social? - Brynn M Evans

Chris: you know how I feel about Google as a social search site...Unless you're supporting Clay's notion that these all those categories are poorly implemented "social things" - Brynn M Evans

Jeremy: True, "social" is a nebulous term, but I was thinking more about listing non-social actions people do online (whether or not through "social media"). - Brynn M Evans

@Brynn: I was mostly being facetious because I know how you feel! ;) Wesabe benefits from people sharing, so it feels social, but I wouldn't say that it IS social. Definitions again...! - Chris Messina

I'm trying to figure out what I do that doesn't have some "social" component and it's just varying degrees of suck. - Clay Newton

@chris Wesabe has the whole "Groups" thing and the "Goals" thing... they aren't directly social finance thangs, but they are social components. I was thinking Zopa and Prosper count as two "social" finance services, then there's a whole host of online trading social utils. - Clay Newton

I could accept that there is a range of "social" online. BUT: do we treat those different social activities differently? Like, do we design technology to support the range of "social" differently? As a researcher, is it important to study the different classes of "social" individually, or lump them together? - Brynn M Evans

I think the critical thing is that "social" is a series of features applied to an application or utility, and the social aspects that are managed are specific to the type of utility, the implementation and the zeitgeist. - Clay Newton

It's funny that so many people are willing to talk about a "range" of social and read social aspects into all of our activities. If we say that Google is social and that online banking is social because somehow they involve input from other people, then why shouldn't I call my own personal thoughts social (utilize language, a social convention - often involve a component of internal dialogue). - Sanjay

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“@zeldman In the part of Florida you're in, confederate flags are considered to be patriotic”

July 9 at 9:48 am - Link

I have always been puzzled by this. Why would you fly the Confederate battle flag? - Brian Oberkirch

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Nurses

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"Moreover I’m thankful to people who have real jobs—who work with their hands and heads and hearts—and I hope when I need it most, someone like Harper is there for me." - Brian Oberkirch

Nurses are pretty amazing... though don't underestimate the importance of writers/artists... you do a great thing too! - Jennifer Kutz

It's less obvious, but there are lots of ways to save lives. - Brian Oberkirch

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When Does Social Media Become Too Risky for Corporate Use?

July 9 at 8:38 am - Link

I'm always interested in what Mike Manuel writes, and I like this reminder that every tool isn't right for company use. In fact, the flattening of context and overlooking of unique workflow/experience is, I think, our greatest error during all of this. & the greatest opportunity. - Brian Oberkirch

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10 Tips For Creating Website Mockups In Photoshop // Plasticmind Blog

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“Fictional user names in demo's aren't compelling. I suggest you replace John Smith with Putzy McViddles or Clydewell Grigsby.”

July 9 at 6:33 am - Link

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Writing a bot to autofave @dickc tweets - Brian Oberkirch

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