‘White Flight’ Online? danah boyd asks at PDF
…boyd said it used to be that most kids were on both MySpace and Facebook, but then, during the 2006-2007 school year, boyd started noticing a trend: teens were beginning to decide whether to stay with MySpace or jump to Facebook—and increasingly, they were making that choice based on the social categories in which they placed themselves offline. “Increasingly,” says boyd,” (teens) were choosing the site that reflected who they saw as being ‘people like me’ and seeing the ‘other site’ as the place where the ‘other’ people go.”
Pulse Links: Playful Products, Text In The World
This is the Bayer Didget:
Didget is a blood sugar monitor that plugs into a Nintendo DS, and interfaces with its own game cartridge. Bayer explain that it ‘converts test results into…
Urban Camping: escaping into the city
© Filip Dujardin / OWI
Urban Camping is a project by Belgian Architects Oscar Rommens and Joris Van Reusel of Impot.exportARCHITECTURE that provides a novel solution to high demand,…
Bill Wasik’s new book: The view from atop the spike of viral culture
Three pages into his new book, Bill Wasik presents the first of several charts illustrating the “telltale spike” of viral culture on the Internet — that is, a dramatic burst of attention…
Social Security Numbers Can Be Extrapolated From Public Data
For years, government officials have urged people to protect their social security numbers by giving out the nine-digit codes only when absolutely necessary. Now it turns out that all the…
How Swine Flu Works, And Why It Kills [Pandemic Update]
Scientists now have an idea of just how the H1N1 virus may be so deadly, and what makes it different from earlier viruses from the same family. Hint: It’s where it goes inside your body that…
Scott Listfield: Astronaut Dinosaur [Car Art]
ZEBRA Recycled Bicycle Path Divider, Safe for Cyclists and the Environment
Most of us agree that cycling is one of the most eco-friendly and healthy ways of transportation, although it can also be dangerous, even if you use bike lanes. Motorbikes swishing past, doors…
On loving the Walkman for what it was, and the iPod for what it is
If you haven’t yet stumbled across it on BBC News, Engadget or the discussion boards here on Core77, there’s a great little article making the rounds today, in which 13-year-old Scott…
