JR: More about comments and anonymity - My Jan 2014 comment at ToledoTalk.com.) Here are a couple other "studies:" July 2011 - If your website is full of assholes, it's your fault If you run a website, you need to follow these steps. if you don't, you're making the web, and the wo... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #comments #forums #socialmedia #anonymity #blog_jr

JR: 2009 Facebook Design Principles - (My August 2009 posting at ToledoTalk.com) From the Facebook Design's Notes blog, Jul 1, 2009 posting The following are our Design Principles. At Facebook, our design is... Universal Our mission is to make the entire world more open, and this... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #design #socialmedia #blog_jr

JR: Network News in a Box - 2007 - Reading through this Toledo Talk post from October 2007 titled Reporting on the San Diego County fires, saw this section Network News in a Box and found this unused open, wiki https://newsinabox.jottit.com/. That wiki's home page was munged, but it w... more>> 4 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #sandiegofire #forums #wiki #socialmedia #government #blog_jr

JR: Quora design principles - (My April 2011 posting at ToledoTalk.com) - QA site YouTube video "Design is a set of decisions about a product. It's not an interface or an aesthetic, it's not a brand or a color. Design is the actual decisions." "First, it imposes a... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #technology #socialmedia #design #blog_jr

JR: Facebook's mobile app strategy for 2014 - #todo add excerpts January 16, 2014 - The Verge - Facebook plans suite of standalone mobile apps for 2014 - Messenger is just the tip of the iceberg Related: Jan 30, 2014 stories https://www.facebook.com/paper #mobile - #app ... more>>
- Mar 03, 2014 - #todo #mobile #app #socialmedia #messaging #blog_jr

JR: Quartz media designed for mobile and sharing - The site, which launched just 18 months ago, focusses on "smart, creative, shareable content", with articles that are either under 500 words or longer, more analytical pieces. Speaking to Journalism.co.uk, Kevin Delaney, editor-in-chief of the site,... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #mobile #socialmedia #opensource #images #startup #blog_jr

JR: Facebook growth chart - (My January 2011 posting at ToledoTalk.com) September 2010 posting at benphoster.com: This chart shows Facebooks growth in new users from 2004 to 2010 based on data provided by Facebook.com. I was looking all over the internet for this chart and... more>> 2 min read
- Jan 29, 2014 - #socialmedia #forums

JR: Top 10 Online Activities Performed in the Last 30 Days by People 65-plus - Dec 2009 - (My December 2009 posting at ToledoTalk.com) Dec 10, 2009 - nielsen wire - Six Million More Seniors Using the Web than Five Years Ago While people 65 and older still make up less than 10 percent of the active Internet universe, their numbers are ... more>> 2 min read
- Jan 29, 2014 - #technology #socialmedia

JR: Notes from 2010 UT Media Forum - (My April 2010 posting at ToledoTalk.com) Mar 30, 2010 Toledo Talk posting announcing the event: UT forum to analyze citizen and professional journalism #todo fix this What: 11th Annual First Amendment Freedom Forum Who: Michael S. Miller, co-f... more>> 12 min read
- Jan 29, 2014 - #todo #media #toledo #socialmedia #blog_jr

JR: Thoughts about creating a community site - (My 2009 posting at ToledoTalk.com.) Aug 30, 2009 Update: This is a mish-mash of thoughts from a couple e-mails. It will take me a while to expand and organize this info, so I see no point in reading this now. {{Underconstruction}} I wrote the... more>> 9 min read
- Jan 29, 2014 - #technology #forums #socialmedia #local #design #programming #blog_jr

JR: Online Communities - (My early 2012 comment at ToledoTalk.com.) I believe Orkut was Google's first attempt at social networking several years ago. It didn't take off here, but it got popular elsewhere, like South America. LiveJournal was/is an early blogging network th... more>> 3 min read
- Jan 15, 2014 - #socialmedia #forums #blogging #blog_jr

JR: Views on Forums and Facebook in 2013 - May 2013 - Medium.com post - The Facebook experiment has failed. Lets go back. We need to go back to smaller communities. Where people arent lost in the mediocre averages of large networks. Thats where ideas flourish. Hacker News discussion ... more>>
- Jan 15, 2014 - #socialmedia #forums #blog_jr

JR: January 2013 articles about commenting systems - (initial content below was copied from my ToledoTalk.com post and then added to in Nov 2013) Stories about: whether to allow comments whether to use Facebook comments or some other system anonymity or real names -- -- -- ol... more>> 13 min read
- Jan 15, 2014 - #forums #blogging #socialmedia #anonymity #comments #blog_jr

JR: What Twitter's IPO Means - #socialmedia #startup "Not a word about last months wildly successful IPO by Potbelly, a 36-year-old sandwich purveyor that actually makes money." "Nothing about the Container Store, which went public last week and promptly doubled in value thank... more>> 2 min read
- Nov 05, 2013 - #socialmedia #startup #juncotodo

JR: My early introduction to Twitter - Like many people, I first learned about Twitter from news released during the March 2007 SXSW conference. Twitter launched in 2006, but I don't think I heard about it then. I don't remember. I could have read something about it in 2006 and glossed ov... more>> 4 min read
- Oct 19, 2013 - #socialmedia #twitter #technology #history #messaging #blog_jr