March 24th, 2009

 

A lot of articles have been written on the patterns of user behavior across social networks. Most have some theories as to why the population reaches some critical yet mysterious inflection point and suddenly migrates to the next great social website. The exodus happened from Friendster to Myspace, and then again from Myspace to Facebook. And it will happen again.
 

I say this because of a factor that I believe has been left out of most of the hypotheses; that of the corporate IT policy. After my wife told me her company had recently blocked one of the newer sites, it occurred to me how this could affect entire social graphs by association. Even for those who are not working in settings where they are blocked.

 

It would be interesting to see something written which analyzes the role that enterprise company proxy blacklists have on the migration patterns of social website hipsters. It would be interesting to see the dates domains such as Friendster and Myspace got blacklisted on fortune-500 company proxies correlated with the famous "hockey-stick" growth patterns of the newer social site.
 

Does such literature already exist?
 

 

September 18th, 2007

 

It turns out the only one of the Top 100 Rock & Roll Moments of All Time that i was witness to was:

 

 67. Pulp at Glastonbury, 1995.

 

 

 Too bad that, at the time, i hadn't yet gotten into them. I was just disappointed that the Stone Roses didn't play.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 7th, 2007

 

 

Chauncey passed away today. He was the world's best cat and is dearly missed.

 

 

 

Laura + Chauncey + pinwheel.