A few of the things that I do think are really very good about the new Zune software are both the Podcast and the social/community support. I have been using services like Last.fm, iLike, and a large variety of others for a very long time now and am really happy to see that kind of [...]

I finally got around to looking at the new community features on Netflix this morning. There’s some interesting stuff they’re trying to do here that I can’t help but think would work better with a more open model for social graphs. It was only a month or so ago that I found that a couple [...]

Not that the books themselves are social, though I can think of a few fictional libraries where that might be true, but Revish is yet another social website with a focus on books. In some ways it’s closer to what I’ve been looking for than the other ones I’ve seen http://www.cavort.org/2007/02/21/while-im-thinking-about-books/. In any case, I [...]

Infodoodads pointed me to another social book site that I think might fit my needs a bit better than the other three that I’ve played with so far: goodreads. My profile can be found here and I might play with the widget a bit and see what it looks like. Tags: social

Originally I had a lot of this stuff on the About Me page but I decided to move it all over here to reduce clutter. Essentially, this is where all of the badges and widgets that I don’t want cluttering up the sidebar but think are kind of interesting or at least are useful as [...]

While I’m certainly not entirely happy with the results of the elections yesterday, the election of a socialist to the US Senate in Vermont makes my little socialist heart very happy. Tags: social

I’m playing with a new music social network web toy right now called Qloud. It’s very similar to Last.fm which I have been playing with for a couple of years now, but in some ways the service might have a better outlook. So far the service is pretty rough. Searching from the main page can [...]

I was looking over the Star Tribune candidate profiles for the primary tomorrow and thought it was fairly interesting to see that in the Hennepin County Commisioner District 4 race there is a Green Party candidate (Farheen Hakeem) who is running on a social issues platform and a DFL Party candidate (incumbent Peter McLaughlin) who is [...]

Posted to L-Space: For the past 6+ years I have spent time, effort, electricity, and bandwidth on what has been overall one of the most fun little projects I’ve ever had. A little BBS with a stable user base, interesting content, and lots of friends. It has not been without some occasional trouble, whether social [...]