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Re: How to share and lend kindle books

Jonathan Sundqvist — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:47:10 -0000

Well, the deal was the other way around actually :)

Re: How to share and lend kindle books

Jfs3 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:00:48 -0000

if i give you my kindle login information, i also give you permission to purchase from the kindle store. And i get to pay for all your purchases. I don't think so.

Re: The Interest Graph and The Social Graph

Web Application Developers — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:40:41 -0000

You are absolutely right Heyrich but I think interest graph has got a lot more potential than social graph

Re: The Interest Graph and The Social Graph

Jianhua Shao — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:32:03 -0000

hi interesting point. One more thought based on your comparison on the difference in architecture is about the security level of personal data.
Facebook holds more of your secret personal data, like your personal photo, or even your personal posts. You would only share them with people you trusted or in close.
However, twitter is much lighter on your personal data profiling. It is almost include your reading or your status. Those data are consider to be public available by you. You are less worry about the privacy leakage with twitter data.
This difference leads to the difference on how people treat twitter and facebook. facebook is more on social network as users cares about the privacy security, but twitter is less and they consider it as public opinion/good/somethings like air anybody can access it too.

Re: The Interest Graph and The Social Graph

Deepak Nayal — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:34:54 -0000

I think the interest graph has got a lot more potential than social graph. And Facebook understands that too, which is why they have Like, Comments and Pages features. I think it is these features that will be much more beneficial to Facebook than photo sharing. So both, Facebook and Twitter, are after the interest graph, but with different approaches. Twitter has the benefit of being developed ground up with interest graph in mind.

Deepak
www.olsup.com

Re: How to share and lend kindle books

Jonathan Sundqvist — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:31:04 -0000

One account can be tied to several kindles or kindle apps at once. I don't own a kindle myself although I use the kindle app that are available for several devices. With this I have successfully been able to share books with a couple of friends. For them to share books with me, they simply log in with my account.

As to the glossiness of devices, that's only personal preferences. I've read several books from my small iphone. It works perfectly well. But I do understand that some people can become annoyed by the glossiness.

Second-hand, it seems, will be a thing of the past. Although I wouldn't blame that on a capitalists trying to con us. The inherent nature of digital files is built on licenses because they can be copied over and over. Digital files never become aged and less attractive like material books do.

Re: How to share and lend kindle books

First Last — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:40:54 -0000

I like the idea of sharing eBooks on Kindle this way. However I'm guessing that two or more people can't connect to the same Kindle account on different Kindles. i.e. can an account be tied to only one Kindle at once? If so then the idea doesn't seem that grand because all devices that run the Kindle App have glossy screens making them unusable in my experience.

I hope I'm totally wrong in my assessment though as I love the idea of sharing books.

The other problem with Kindle is that am I ever going to be able to buy a secondhand book for 50p? I think not, rendering Kindle a huge capitalist con.

Re: The Interest Graph and The Social Graph

Jonathan Sundqvist — Tue, 17 May 2011 08:52:21 -0000

You are absolutely right about Facebook trying to learn as much as possible
about the interest graph. It isn't as obvious that Twitter is trying to
implement features around the social graph though. But I see your point.

I would say that it is in the intersection between the social graph and the
interest graph most interesting stuff happens. That's when people start
trusting and new things can be developed.

Re: The Interest Graph and The Social Graph

heyrich — Tue, 17 May 2011 00:56:54 -0000

Nice piece.

I think you're correct that the dynamic of both Facebook and Twitter is derived to a great extent by the level of each service's inherent reciprocity. Within Facebook both people need to bless the connection, while Twitter's everpresent Following/Follower ratio lends itself to lopsided edges between users.

That said, due to advertising and ROI concerns, Facebook has a vested interest in learning as much as possible about their users' interest graph -- just as Twitter looks ever deeply at interactions between users (follows, mentions, RTs) to develop a more comprehensive "universal social graph" of its users.

It's definitely interesting time to be a data geek.

Rich

(Full disclosure: I'm one of the Co-Founders of Spot Influence, a TechStars data startup that's organizing the web around people.)

Re: The Story of Homeless Allan

Jonathan Sundqvist — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:09:23 -0000

I guess when it comes to treatment and if you have to pay anything homeless people would have no means at all to pay for their treatment. They would then have to go untreated. As I understood it he had been to hospitals many times, but they didn't really treat him.

Take his arm for instance. I'm sure that if he would have been treated earlier he would not have been in such a bad state and the treatment would probably have been much cheaper as well.

I completely agree with you that one part of sustainable development is health. Which would mean health to all, irrespective of your monetary wealth.

Re: The Story of Homeless Allan

Joakim Josefsson — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:45:47 -0000

Thank you for this story, really makes you appriciate what you have.

I also wonder if homeless people, in generall tend, to not ask for (demand) things that they should have the right to have, as in Allans case medical care. If so this is a problem that need to be attended, in some way.

As i see it this strides against many of the aspects of a sustainable development, if peoples health is not cared for.

Hope things will turn out alright for Allan.

/Joakim

Re: The Story of Homeless Allan

Sigvard Sundqvist — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:33:18 -0000

Touching story. Hope that Allan will find that his life has the same value as other who not has got there home in the street.

I wish and pray that he will get his health back and meet people that can support him with respect and love.
/Sigvard

Re: Where is the conversation happening in the UK?

Martha Ellen LaGess — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:56:28 -0000

hi Jonathan, thanks for the #ukgreen suggestion. In a recent tweet @LamaStudio suggested #_e (and registered on Tagalus) as a character-saving replacement for the many environmental & environmental-social related hashtags we're now using at twitter, so after your blog above, I'm thinking #uk_e ...

Re: Telling an engaging story of how we destroy our Home

Jonathan Sundqvist — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:38:37 -0000

Well thank you for taking the time to comment :)

Re: Telling an engaging story of how we destroy our Home

Joanna — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 03:58:22 -0000

great article - thanks jonathan.

Re: Social media and emerging sustainability communities

Jonathan Sundqvist — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:35:00 -0000

I definitely agree that we need accountability when it comes to comments. That's why I think disqus is quite helpful in that respect. (But then we might end up in another problem, namely some kind of monopoly situation which facebook tries to end up in, but that's another discussion)

Regarding deliberation, as I said, it's inherently difficult to scale. I guess that's what's partly happening in the comment sections of news articles co-inciding with anonymity. But I've been thinking, what if you gather influencers and sit down, talk and broadcast it. That's a debate, right. But the thing is, it's not a debate because debates centers around conflict rather than discussion. It's another dynamic.

What I've been told and see again and again is that media (and probably human beings in general) loves conflict. I guess it's all about telling a captivating story. That's probably why we have these kind of debates, but it would be interesting if one could build a story out of the discussion rather than pitting people against each other.

Re: Social media and emerging sustainability communities

Andrew Sleigh — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:48:41 -0000

Hi Jonathon, thanks for the quote! I also got carried away thinking about this and wrote more about it here: http://andrewsleigh.com/125 - as well as on Lucy's follow-up.

Totally agree with you about the word 'consumer'. It has its uses, but in the context of this conversation, it frames the relationship in a very unhelpful way.

You mention deliberation, which is an interesting take on it. In a post-climategate, post-copenhagen world, it takes quite an optimist to think of social media as a tool to facilitate the constructive working through of differences (if that is a good reading of 'deliberation'). You only have to look at the comments thread on one of Monbiot's articles on the Guardian website to become very dispirited about the possibility of reaching a consensus on climate change-related issues. But hey, we need more optimists!

I do think that the specifics of the technology are important here. A comments thread on a newspaper article, or the wall on a Facebook page are very different to one's own blog or Twitter stream (or Facebook profile).

People are far more likely to engage constructively when the tools make it possible for them to be held accountable for their comments; where they can't hide behind anonymity. So there are some interesting design problems to solve if that's the use case under consideration.

Re: Did you participate in 350.org’s 10/10/10?

Ranjeev011 — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:52:09 -0000

HI Jonathan,you are doing great work.

Re: Social media and emerging sustainability communities

Jonathan Sundqvist — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 06:08:58 -0000

Thanks for your comment. I definitely think that the quote you wrote holds true. "The gap between ignorance and knowledge is much smaller than the gap between knowledge and action". I'll make sure to remember it, it's worth thinking more about. And thanks for the site suggestion as well.

Re: Social media and emerging sustainability communities

Joshua Foss — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:26:25 -0000

Great insight on a fascinating subject Jonathan! I agree with the majority of your points, and that these media outlets should be better used to build active communities and not heighten a consumer-producer dichotomy... one aspect of social media i'm struggling with right now is that of action... I recently read a compelling quote that said 'the gap between ignorance and knowledge is much smaller than the gap between knowledge and action.' ...even if we're active in a virtual community, it is still virtual and infrequently turns into authentic engagement... It seems that this is the next level of social media engagement, holding individuals and companies accountable for not only what they say, but by what they do... Cindy Gallop started this concept called Action Branding that is beginning to address this... her site is 'If You Ran The World'... you should check it out!

thanks!

Re: Social media and emerging sustainability communities

Jonathan Sundqvist — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 07:42:37 -0000

Thank you!

Re: Social media and emerging sustainability communities

lucy warin — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 06:07:59 -0000

Great post Jonathan, can't wait to have you on the team!

Lucy

Re: My thesis – a collaborative exploration

Sortofhere — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:44:02 -0000

Hi Jonathan!

Just reiterating some of the initial reactions I had upon reading your brainstorm ideas during class yesterday:

Your question/topic regarding Collaborative Consumption is the most clearly stated one so far ex: Is there a difference in governance between non-privatized commons and privatized commons?

However I believe that you would be able to fuse the following ideas into one approach given the right methodology, that is if you can find a methodological framework that allows for both a study of structural aspects of commons as well narrative aspects of consumption.

I belive that both a question pertaining to exploring the role of a "individual" as well as pursuing and challenging definitions of what kind of an act "consuming" can be analysed via either an organizational/constructivist or a discourse analysis/narrative approach.

If you find a methodology that allows for a relation between these ie:

how do various structural modes of collaborative consumption inform/change/effect a narrative about consumption as an environmentally positive action? What differences exist between the narrative of collaboration and individual action? etc
(Your emphasis being on how a construction of a certain collaboration effects a narrative)

or How do narratives about individually based environmentally positive consumption effect the possibility for collaborative consumption patterns? How do the definitions of acts of consuming differ between these two modes?

Again I have to stress that for this to be possible you'll need to find an appropriate methodology!

Good Luck!

See Ya Sunday

Re: My thesis – a collaborative exploration

Jonathan Sundqvist — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:15:12 -0000

Yes, during the coming days I will have to narrow it down. What I've written here is more or less a brainstorm. Now I need to find the focus in this.

Re: My thesis – a collaborative exploration

Christina C-J — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:43:59 -0000

Very interesting questions, Jonathan. But as you note yourself, you have quite many questions and I believe they won't all fit in your thesis. Perhaps you should think about what perspective you want to take, from an individual's point of view or looking at the individuals as a group. I couldn't quite figure it out from your text but one thing that could be interesting also to study is to see if the regulations and policies we currently have are working for or against this movement. Good luck!