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Increase Your Popularity: How to Choose the Perfect Avatar

By robojiannis 264 days ago from http://pandemiclabs.com

there are several ways to become popular in the blogosphere. Apart from the obvious, well known ways, there are some more subtle methods to attract more visitors to your blog.
This post explains why avatars can play such a fundamental role in your position in the blogosphere and how you can choose the perfect avatar.
Example

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Tags: blogging popularity avatars traffic


Blogging, Creative Commons and our sense of ownership

By robojiannis 268 days ago from http://changemod.com

From new technologies emerge new restrictions. Before the Gutenberg era, there was no such thing as copyright. The mechanical reproduction increased the sense of intellectual protection.
Now in the web era, copyright restrictions seem obsolete and Creative Commons evolved.
Although, I find Creative Commons a great service,

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Tags: ownership blogging creative commons copyright


What if Google were CIA?

By robojiannis 270 days ago from http://changemod.com

What if Google were CIA? or Microsoft? Would we react similarly to their projects as we do now?
Their relatively new project "Google Street View" is playing with the concepts of privacy, security, control and surveillance.
Most of us dislike it when we see thousands of CCTV cameras all over the streets, but we don't react

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Tags: blogging privacy security panopticon google surveillance


Too many revolutions for Cyberspace

By robojiannis 290 days ago from http://changemod.com

The web waits patiently its evolution. We have all heard of the semantic web and its revolutionary vision for interaction between humans and machines. But that's not the only vision being prepared: The Web of Data hopes to succeed interaction between cyberspace and real, physical life and Scoble talked about a new Microsoft so

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Tags: web web 3.0 social web social networks cyberspace semantic web web of data


Davos: The illusion of interaction

By robojiannis 306 days ago from http://changemod.com

Some days ago, the World Economic Forum ended its discussion about the future of the world. The question "what to do to change the world?" was answered by many economical and political leaders. In fact not only leaders had the opportunity to participate in the discussion, but literally everybody. The davos channel

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Tags: davos davos question youtube interaction world economic forum


Control over social networks: users vs. administrators

By robojiannis 312 days ago from http://changemod.com

Self-organized networks foster a tactic of diversity and independence. They give users the tools to create content, promote material and discuss topics. Such networks (like digg, stumbleupon, bloggingzoom, etc) do not interfere with the user interaction.
They practice a form of indirect control (blocking spam, improper behavio

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Tags: social networks digg bloggingzoom blogging control emergence administration


15+ free tools and visualizations for your social network

By robojiannis 315 days ago from http://changemod.com

This is a list of static and interactive tools, which will reveal how the town called social web work. The static tools are mostly visuals of well-known social networks. The interactive tools are free software, which will let you study your own social networks.
Purpose of this list is to provide the instruments to help you decode the social

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Tags: blogging social network tools photos visualization flickr myspace facebook network theory digg open source


4 revolutionary attributes of the semantic web

By robojiannis 317 days ago from http://changemod.com

The Project10X published its Semantic Wave 2008 Report a couple of days ago. This is an analysis of the points that can play a fundamental role on the evolution and revolution of the internet experience as we know it. Points like transparency and human-machine interaction are key traits of the semantic web.
This post is also an invitation to

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Tags: blogging internet openid data portability web 3.0 semantic web social networks emergence


SPAM as rating system

By robojiannis 317 days ago from http://changemod.com

Do you remember the days, where you got about 10 spam posts a day in your blog? Those where the days, right? But where they? Yes, now it's annoying: everyday your antispam program, blocks at about 100 to 200 posts, some stuff even go through. But have you noticed an interesting relation? With your spam, your traffic has increased too. In fac

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Tags: spam email blogging rank internet blogs spammers


Understanding digg

By robojiannis 319 days ago from http://changemod.com

Lets say you are a blogger. You just wrote a post, which you find really enlightening. The public should read this post. The question comes: Should I go and digg myself?

That’s a tricky question. Unofficially the rule says “don’t digg yourself”, although several bloggers think otherwise.

The subject here is not only analyzing the specia

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Tags: social network digg blogging


What has science to say about your social networks?

By robojiannis 320 days ago from http://changemod.com

How do I get more attention on my blog? Many step-by-step guides have been written about this question. All very insightful, but sometimes the scientifical background is missing. Why is linking and commenting bringing more traffic? How does a social network work? How does an emergent behavior influence the traffic of your blog? Why does parti

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Tags: blogging thesis study science network theory attention participation collaboration


Free Boing boing podcast series:Hacker Crackdown

By robojiannis 321 days ago from http://changemod.com

Bruce Sterling’s 1992 classic journalistic history of the founding of the online civil liberties movement, The Hacker Crackdown, which chronicles the events that led to the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.rnrnIt is a series of podcasts made by Boing Boing's Corry Doctorow, edited so that you can listen only to the book (an

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Tags: audiobook podcast copyright hacker


Data portability explained; (VIDEO)

By robojiannis 321 days ago from http://changemod.com

There has been quite a buzz the last week about data portability. Facebook, Google, Linkedin and others have already accepted in opening their databases, so that users can move their data from one platform to another.
The data portability project is developed with open standards and gives absolute control to the users over their data.
This

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Tags: data portability social networks blogging software technology