sacha chua :: living an awesome life

More thoughts about social computing

Posted on May 24th, 2006 by Sacha Chua

Come to think of it, the hardest and most interesting part won't be figuring out how the technology works. That takes time and experimentation, but it's quite doable. What's really tough and fun is figuring out how people work, how communities work, and how to support that while changing their behavior...

It's not about blogs, wikis, etc. It's about communication and community...

Random Japanese sentence: 猫は捕らえたネズミを引き裂き始めた。 The cat began to tear at the mouse it caught.

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...

Save to - del.icio.us - Digg it - reddit - StumbleUpon - Twitter

More posts about...: Uncategorized // Add Comment »

Discussion Area - Leave a Comment

Please comment as you, not your organization.

Name (required)

Mail (will not be published) (required)

Website

Comment

Notify me of followup comments via e-mail

On This Day...

• 2009: More gardening — We spent most of this weekend thinking about and working on our garden. Laura's going to think of what we [...]
• 2006: More thoughts about what I want to do with my life — Here's a sketch of what I want to do: I want to help people connect with people through social software. That's a [...]
• 2006: Hooray for people who know how to cook! — How to not burn pancakes, from Mom: use a teflon pan. heat pan. put very very little oil on the pan. [...]
• 2006: Team of Filipino Students Win MIT Entrepreneurship — From: "Santamaria, Samuel" SSantamaria AT aicpa.org Here's another victory we can be proud of. Tell your friends about it. A team of [...]
• 2006: Blogly angst — Hands, a sketch by Dominique Cimafranca Sometimes life doesn't work out the way we think it should, but then that could be [...]
• 2006: Microsoft Word in schools — Didith Rodrigo, the chair of my alma mater's computer science department, seems to be getting a bit frustrated with people [...]
• 2006: Web 2.0 and entrepreneurship — From the Kagay-anon Linux Users' Group mailing list: sa mga hilig ug web/2 one page lang na guide; gamit kaayo.. http://www.vipedio.com/roman/blog/20culture_full.html sa mga hackers [...]
• 2006: Aha! — Thanks to a conversation earlier about web development and careers, I think I've figured out a little more about what I [...]
• 2006: Renaissance dance performance — Toronto Coranto - the renaissance dance group that I got drafted into - performed for a class on Love and the [...]
• 2006: Breakfast — When Steve called me up on my cellphone at around 8:00 and said only "Help!", I panicked and nearly fell off [...]
• 2004: Acoustic cryptanalysis for possible cryptographic attacks — Acoustic cryptanalysis - http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/ Link sent by Carlos Sia
• 2004: Research ideas — Blog visualizer It is useful to see how blog entries and other chronologically arranged items like e-mail cluster around certain topics over [...]
• 2004: Took the TOEFL — Am still somewhat annoyed that I got one of the listening questions wrong. Max score 297. We'll see what my actual [...]