chicken chicken chicken, chicken chicken - Jason Wehmhoener

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Jason Wehmhoener

Ok, now I get the reference. :) - Sean McBride

What's at the back of my mind here: automatic identification of buzz phrase clusters associated with emerging strategic technologies. - Sean McBride

What I think is interesting is that they all sound kind of the same until you remove the word "social" from it. I guess some things need the modifier (bookmarking can be social or not) but others don't (brainstorming is inherently social). Some of these phrases have really unclear definitions (what is "social reality mining"?) Buzzwords can suck the meaning out of language. It's one of the things I hate about the IT industry. - Jason Wehmhoener

Brainstorming is often non-social and purely personal -- there are many methods out there for individual brainstorming. Social/collaborative software is in its merest infancy, in my opinion -- the concept has enormous generative power. (Reality mining as defined by Sandy Pentland is inherently social -- "social reality mining" is indeed redundant.) - Sean McBride

Social Semantic Web building is going to be huge, in my opinion -- the biggest. - Sean McBride

Reality mining as defined by Sandy Pentland http://www.technologyreview.com/read_ar... (thanks for the pointer). An interesting article suggesting that brainstorming with a larger number of participants is generally more productive than brainstorming with a smaller number of participants: http://glenfarrelly.blogspot.com/2008... I had read this before in a more compelling form, but can't track down the link at the moment. - Jason Wehmhoener

Sean, what do you think of Twine? Are there other "social semantic web" services that you find promising? - Jason Wehmhoener

Social Construction of Reality - Andrew Baron

Also, although I have enjoyed using Twine, I can't say I've taken advantage of (or even made myself aware of) its semantic features. (I don't think Twine does a good job of explaining the benefits of this aspect of their service.) Any suggestions for ways I could start to do this? - Jason Wehmhoener

Twine and Freebase (Metaweb Technologies) are quite promising. But I think we need a semantic markup language that is so dead simple and intuitive that anyone can use it out of the box with a mere glance at the documentation. RDFa is still too clunky for everyday people. - Sean McBride

bookmarking, brainstorming, chat, journaling, lifestream aggregation, media, networking, reality mining, Semantic Web building, streams of conscious (!social) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Sean, I think RDFa is what we have to use. Without agreed upon standards, there's nothing essentially "semantic" about any markup language. - Jason Wehmhoener

Jason -- good article, and I've got a new acronym - EBS (electronic brainstorming). Perhaps one of the better examples of individual brainstorming are the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. - Sean McBride

Brian - is "(!social)" part of a formal notational system? - Sean McBride

Agree Jason - RDFa, uM, FOAF, and other deep semantic web tech is required to capture the meta context. Is there really a spoon? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

! is used in many programming languages to mean "not" - Jason Wehmhoener

SGML purists scoffed when HTML was first introduced. You never know when someone is going to find a much simpler way to handle the concepts that are most used in any field of activity. - Sean McBride

The holy grail in markup languages: good enough to do the stuff you most often do in the easiest way possible. That's a target that's always moving. - Sean McBride

Ok. Here is a jobboard with the functions of social networking http://www.jobirn.com Web2.0, Chat and Video... - Nancy Jobirn

social notebooks - Sean McBride

And let us not forget: social jibber jabber and social echolalia chamber. - Sean McBride