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If you hadn't noticed, our media climate generally provides a very distorted mirror of our lives and of our gender. And I think that's going to change. Now most media companies -- television, radio, publishing, games, you name it -- they use very rigid segmentation methods in order to understand their audiences. It's old-school demographics. They come up with these very restrictive labels to define us. Now the crazy thing is that media companies believe that if you fall within a certain demographic category then you are predictable in certain ways. You have certain taste, that you like certain things. And so the bizarre result of this is that most of our popular culture is actually based on these presumptions about our demographics. - Cyber Wanderlust from Bookmarklet

@EjDD I agree with much ideas brought up here, and i think this gender barrier in SW is diminishing by next generation of web and SM. - Danica Radovanovic

up - Esra Öndev

Bora, can you share what was your rational for platform - WP versus blogger or paid ones? - Alexey

Moved from Wordpress.com to Wordpress.org, which gives me more flexibility (e.g., putting up my own banner, various widgets, etc.). I already owned coturnix.org domain, so this was easy and made sense to do. - Bora Zivkovic

Wordpress is really the best platform right now. And especially in its .org version it is both easy for n00bs and flexible for experienced users. Blogspot is a pain, Drupal is a greater pain, and I am not techie enough to play with things like Expression Engine. On the other hand, if I could get my hands on Scripting2 I would totally love that! - Bora Zivkovic

S06E03 da non perdere :) - Fabio Giglietto from Bookmarklet

you are science super star! :) - Danica Radovanovic

On the farewell post, Claudia commented (paraphrasing) that you can't have "collaBORAtion" without Bora... - Bill Hooker

read this wonderful post and made a comment. Bora, I support your decision, too much energy and passion came to this blog from your side, so it's understandable. See you on new URL! - Danica Radovanovic

Lovely piece of writing, Bora. I teared up at the end. Sigh. - Mickey Schafer

"In 2005, hardly anyone at Google actually used Facebook, so they just didn't understand what people were getting out of social networking products. Incredibly, many people on the Orkut team did not use their own product (let alone Facebook) outside of work. By contrast, everyone I know who worked at Facebook was a passionate user of that product." - marcell mars

I'll be there from July 4th until July 9th. See more in my Dopplr profile. - Fabio Giglietto

"We can examine the article’s influence by looking at citations to it, but there are thousands of citations and sifting through them is unwieldy. Today we’re launching the ability to search within this set." - marcell mars

Pew Internet Project released a short report this afternoon that examines how people use digital tools to learn about local and community issues. If you’re interested, you can view the report at http://pewinternet.org/Reports... Among the key findings, one in five Americans use digital tools to interact with neighbors and learn about local issues. Community blogs and social networking sites are playing an important role in community interactions for those Americans who know few of their neighbors personally. It also finds that one in five adults have signed up to receive email or text message alerts about local issues, with weather updates and school alerts showing particular relevance. - Howard Rheingold

"Scholz is particularly critical of accepting the cliché that young people are naturally “digital natives.” In his view, the concept initially encouraged much-needed attention to informal digital learning but was eventually too often misunderstood. “The idea of the ‘digital native’ was useful to examine youth growing up with the Internet. But it is now clear that not all learners born between 1980 and 2000 grew up using the Internet in a way that makes them automatically skilled users. Digital immersion should not be mistaken for media literacy.”" - Howard Rheingold