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This is my blog on library and information science.
Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
Where am I?
Category: online communities
Why Friendfeed's acquisition by Facebook concerns this user. The title is an imitation of Walt's Monday, old, and insufficiently paranoid. I love friendfeed. It's really the porous boundaries between the groups that really does it. You get to know people...
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Category: online communities
I've been fascinated by these projects, but I felt that I didn't have sufficient time to really do them justice here. Michael Nielsen has discussed them in several venues so it wasn't clear what I could add. Then I thought...
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Category: Information Science
Last set of comps readings, I talked about sense of community: belonging, having influence, fulfillment of needs, and emotional support. Now, let's talk about the physics version of "community" - cohesive subgroups. In a graph, these are groups of...
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Category: comps
Sunday morning I was all set to do another essay - just had to pick a question source and question - when my mother in law called to say she would be stopping by at about the same time I...
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