ThoughtCast® » mit media lab http://www.thoughtcast.org An online watering hole for ideas. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:46:06 +0000 en hourly 1 ThoughtCast® by ThoughtCast, 2005 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ jenny@thoughtcast.org (Jenny Attiyeh) jenny@thoughtcast.org (Jenny Attiyeh) posts 1440 jenny attiyeh, thoughtcast, dershowitz, sam huntington, interview, lisa randall, marc hauser, natalie goldberg An online watering hole for ideas. A podcast and public radio interview program with authors, academics and intellectuals. Jenny Attiyeh Jenny Attiyeh jenny@thoughtcast.org No no http://www.thoughtcast.org/uploads/tc_001_144x144.jpg ThoughtCast® http://www.thoughtcast.org 144 144 To friend or not to friend: Judith Donath on online social status http://www.thoughtcast.org/thoughtcast-shorts/to-friend-or-not-to-friend-judith-donath-on-online-status/ http://www.thoughtcast.org/thoughtcast-shorts/to-friend-or-not-to-friend-judith-donath-on-online-status/#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 20:57:54 +0000 Jenny http://www.thoughtcast.org/?p=138
Judith Donath

Have you “friended” someone recently? Have you ever? Sooner or later, we’ll all start to friend, or be friended, if we are to inhabit the jolly online world of social networking. MIT Media Lab’s Judith Donath explains….

Click here: (4:17 minutes)


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Josh Marshall (credit: NY Times)
Here are a few more thoughts on new words gleaned from life online — gathered at a Berkman Center conference on The Future of the Internet!
Joshua Micah Marshall, who founded the influential site Talking Points Memo discusses the term “blogger”, a now old neologism that may have outgrown its usefulness, at least to him!
Click here: (2:30 minutes) to listen. And let us know if you agree!



And here on this YouTube video, Josh Marshall tells Jenny Attiyeh how he came up with the name “Talking Points Memo”…



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