Last week, our group attempted to create an equation detailing the net worth of a single Facebook account. We imagined a situation in which Mark Zuckerberg decided to dis-invest all of Facebook’s net worth to each user, based on the net worth of their respective profiles. The question and scenario […]
Daily Archives: October 15, 2012
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I have decided to change my final project topic once more. While I am excited by both the history of civic media in Boston’s Chinatown and James Rojas’ participatory planning workshops, I am now going to focus my final project around the 21 Days Question Campaign Against Domestic Violence in […]
Last weekend (Oct. 11 through 14) was filled with enormous amounts of maps and data at the International Conference of Crisis Mappers (ICCM). Every year the conference gathers enthusiasts, professionals, geeks and wonks from everywhere to discuss humanitarian (information) technology to its best. New ideas were proposed, demos shown, a […]
This post was co-written with the help of Loki. Thanks to the rest of the class for helping us keep good notes! We start off this week’s class with a quick recap of our blog posts from the previous class, discussing our various models of social change. Joanna describes her […]
In Sasha’s class last week we tried to calculate our value to the online social networks we participate in. In the equation my partner and I created, we took into account three variables: Biodata, Influence, and System Value. Our equation is: (Biodata + System Value) to the power of Influence […]