{"id":487,"date":"2004-01-04T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2004-01-04T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2004-01-04T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2004-01-04T17:46:30","slug":"what-matters-about-social-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"What matters about Social Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/many\/archives\/2004\/01\/04\/does_social_software_matter.php\">David Weinberger says<\/a>: if you want to get at the real social networks, you&#8217;re going to have to figure them out from the paths that actual feet have worn into the actual social carpet.&#8217;<br \/>\nSo right.  The best examples we have today are things like<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\">Technorati<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogstreet.com\/\">Blogstreet neighborhood<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allconsuming.net\">All Consuming<\/a> that <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reveal interesting people and ideas in the social neighborhood\n<li>in a way that is valuable to the participants, not just data miners\n<li>without asking participants to give anything away or do extra work.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s another way of looking at things. The Social Network tools are about saying hello.  Unless you&#8217;re 18 months old, hello is only .1% of the conversation. Weblogs, wikis, and other public conversations are about the other 99.9% of the conversation.  And the Technorati\/Blogstreet\/AllConsuming applications help you find relevant conversations to join.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Weinberger says: if you want to get at the real social networks, you&#8217;re going to have to figure them out from the paths that actual feet have worn into the actual social carpet.&#8217; So right. The best examples we have today are things likeTechnorati and the Blogstreet neighborhood and All Consuming that reveal interesting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=487\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What matters about Social Software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-7R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}