Social Software

Community Mobilization point to Rocketboom for uncovering an account of a Subway Flash-Mob party.  As a technology cellphones are priming the culture for instantaneous plan adjustment.  A flash-mob is equally dependent on the technology as it is on the culture of the society.  Would a flash-mob work equally as well in a repressive culture as it would in an open ...

I know it’s the day after the Great American Smokeout, but our efforts around this area really do have to continue each and every day. Check out the American Cancer Society’s Eastern Division staff blogs (current ACS staff that used to smoke) as they blog about their experiences quitting.  Our staff know firsthand just how hard trying to quit can ...

Visit www.cancer.org/livefreesmokefree to celebrate the Great American Smokeout. On the site, you can vote for America’s Next Smokesperson, read blogs of those who have quit and/or are trying to quit smoking, find cessation resources and much more.  Check out a few of our bloggers below: Dying to Live — Janet Lee Tiberio’s blog about starting to smoke at age 13 ...

Good news for Second Life with extensive coverage in The New York Times today – check it out! An excerpt includes the following: "In a world called Second Life, especially, so many people visit that profitable businesses have sprung up that earn their proprietors real money, not just virtual currency – in fact, a handful of people earn six-figure incomes ...