Answer people and discussion people are critical to many social media spaces. Many hosts of communities want to attract and retain them. When these types of participants contribute to a social media space the results can be very positive: questions asked are answered, topics introduced are discussed. But not all participants make a positive contribution, [...]
Social Media Roles: spammers and flamers
December 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Community · Data Mining · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Sociology · Visualization
Social Media and Green IT – a podcast discussion with Deborah Grove
December 31st, 2008 · No Comments
I had an interesting discussion with Deborah Grove about the ways social media impacts the costs of computing and the efforts to “green” IT by making servers and networks more power efficient. Social media is a growing segment of all the data stored and processed on earth. But social media has different properties than previous [...]
Tags: Community · Data Mining · Sociology
