KonzeptioNerd

Back to the Farm?

In her 2001 book, technology / sociotechnology journalist Katie Hafner tells the story of abut 15 years of The Well - the first online community to turn into a brand, the oldest online community we’re still talking about and the quasi paradisical state all online communities aspire to return to (not). Hafner chose to tell [...]

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Shaping Things

I think I first read about Shaping Things on Peter Merholze’s blog. And at any rate, the prospect of reading Bruce Sterling (whose fiction writing I appreciate) on (product) design was quite appealing. However, I guess I need to adopt a different strategy if I hope to get anyone to click through my Amazon links [...]

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On the lack of hard data regarding online communities

I’m reading up on online-communities these days.
Tim Keding’s Virtuelle Communities: Erfolgsfaktoren für das Internet-Geschäftsmodell virtueller Gemeinschaften is very obviously a graduation paper. Once you accept this (and the author’s insistence on unidiomatic German), you’ll find Virtuelle Commuities to be a handy little introduction to the topic that can be gathered in one or two sittings.
Keding [...]

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