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in collaboration

Tessellations: a math metaphor for team working

When I was in fifth grade, our math teacher introduced us to tessellations. Here’s the brief rundown: A tessellation is a repeated pattern of 1 closed shape, arrayed one after the next, with no gaps or overlaps. At their simplist, a grid of squares or a pattern of hexagon tiles on a bathroom[...]

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Blog holiday

Work on this blog has been temporarily halted due to my holiday. Please feel free to browse and do leave comments, requests, concerns and suggestions. I will be happy to respond to them when we re-open on the 22nd of November. Thank you for your custom. [...]

in online communities, social tools

Knowledge sharing for the over-18s

I didn’t intend for this blog to be quite so adult in its themes, but this was just too funny to pass up. (And I swear, I found it legimitately, searching for social networking resources!) The porn community, one of the largest online group of content sharers and *ahem* common-interest enthus[...]

in online communities

Helpful hints for Bible shoppers

As one of the original commercial community websites, Amazon has launched the user-referral concept into a common-place online shopping practice. We expect the right to ask people who have bought the book what they thought, and we often want a forum in which to share our own reactions. Amazon has [...]

in collaboration, social tools

Internet art: displaying our messages and feelings

These are from the Yahoo! Time Capsule, a fascinating bit of collaborative art. The capsule is accepting contributions from any and all from the 10th of October to the 8th of November. This electronic anthropology project will be preserved by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in Washington D.C. Thes[...]

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Porn and social networking: tracking STD transmission

It’s the ultimate social networking scenario: who’s been having sex with whom? I remember a health class exercise to demonstrate the power of viral transmission of STDs: the teacher secretly told one of us we were “infected” and then asked each of us to shake hands with thr[...]