amy's blog

I would like to first off apologize for posting this entry a little late- things at home and in my student life have been a little hectic lately and my blog got put on the back burner. The next few weeks are looking alot calmer for me (surprisingly since it's the end of term) so I don't expect to be posting this late again. So again, my apologies! I don't like to drag out too long because I know we are starting a new topic tomorrow.

I wanted to say a little more about online social networks that I didn't elaborate on in my last post. One thing that I thought was interesting is danah boyd's comment that MySpace was started by 20 something's who are into indie music because I had heard that it was actually initially populated by the queer (mostly gay men I believe) and Burning Man communities. Has anyone else read/heard this? I was also unaware of the strong teenage presence on MySpace.

After doing the readings for this week I found the article by Quintarelli to stand out in my mind the most- the reason being that he makes some very bold statements about folksonomies that I think are exaggerated.