Month: August 2004

• Dogster
• Catster
• Austin American series on the Cities of Ideas in which Putnam and Florida meet head to head

The reports are in from the Piedmont Bloggers Conference in G’boro this
weekend. Three of our upcoming class visitors took part. Naturally it was
fully blogged.
• Announcement etc
• Alleged live blog
• Organizer’s blog on reflection
• Extensive write-up by participant
• As covered by the local G’boro paper
• A music video? of the conference

some commercial blog sites
• Blogspot/Blogger
• Xanga
• LiveJournal
• Typepad service of moveable type
• MovableType platform for blogging
• WordPress.org/ open source blogware
• specialty blog site at Harvard Law
• HomeStarRunner not about blogs but you’ll understand strong
  sad better and be amused
• depressed journal of strong sad

• jurgen habermas – public sphere

  “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere”

• richard florida – creative class
  “The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure,
  Community and Everyday Life”
• robert putnam – bowling alone
  “Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community”
• Ray Oldenburg – third place in “A Good Great Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops,
  Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a
  Community”
• Jane Jacobs – communities in cities
  “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”

A few links to sites we mentioned in our first class session:

• The Face Book; added myself and already have some interesting behavior
• Friendster the one that got the news
• Tribe.net adds classifieds to social networking with place
  relationships
• LinkedIn professional connections (resumes etc)
• Orkut by invitation from Google with communities (i can invite if you like)