user experience
Most discussions show a bit of information next to each user: What message does this send? * The only number you can control printed next to your name is post count. * Everyone who reads this will see your current post count. * The more you post, the bigger that number next to
software development
Occasionally, startups will ask me for advice. That's a shame, because I am a terrible person to ask for advice. The conversation usually goes something like this: We'd love to get your expert advice on our thing. I probably don't use your thing. Even
community management
In November, I delivered the keynote presentation at Øredev [http://oredev.org] 2011. It was the second and probably final presentation in the series I call Building Social Software for the Anti-Social. I've spent almost four years thinking about the Q&A format, and these two presentations
history
I've spent a significant part of my life online. Not just on the internet, I mean, but on modems and early, primitive online communities. Today's internet is everything we couldn't have possibly dared to imagine twenty-five years ago, but there is a real risk
forums
I was struck by the conclusion of Andy Oram's thoughtful piece on the next generation of online forums [http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/02/developing-an-i.html]. > People who want to learn more about computer technology and solve problems they encounter on their systems currently have a
community moderation
Clay Shirky's classic articles on social software should be required reading for all software developers working on web applications. As near as I can tell, that's pretty much every developer these days. But I somehow missed Joel Spolsky's related 2003 article on social software,
community
Dare Obasanjo recently wrote about the failure of Kuro5hin [http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=61cdd546-7306-4aac-a64c-5288011ff613] , which was originally designed to address perceived problems with the slashdot [http://www.slashdot.org/] model: > [Kuro5hin allowed] all users to create stories, vote on the stories and to rate comments.