Is social software none of the work, but all of the glory?
It seems to me that well designed software 1. knows it’s users and 2. makes their goals easier for them to achieve. So a website is up in a couple of clicks instead of after hiring a designer or learning to code.
In other [...]

Student’s have their own spaces, their own functioning networks. Isn’t staunchly forcing them to use your systems, tight and rigid, akin to “telling them about your grass seed when they want to know about their lawn?”
I think academia as a whole needs to understand that sometimes in order to successfully serve their constituencies, they [...]

Nabil makes a good point over at Wandering Ways about disillusionment and still voting anyway. Reason or not, we’ve come to mistrust authorities. (It’s the grain of truth that makes this scary… and funny).
There’s a tension happening in our DIY world. Yes, we want our information the way we want it; yes, we [...]