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Recently I read through a paper in the field of Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) describing a novel concept for social software platforms called "Synthesized Social Signals: Computationally-Derived Social Signals from Account Histories" by Jane Im, Sonali Tandon, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Taylor Denby, & Eric Gilbert. I found the concept useful to think about and something I wish was considered more as a standard design practice across social platforms...

In the world of the modern internet, there exists a concept called peer production. You're probably already very familiar with works produced under this concept. Wikipedia primarily bases its content off of peer production. Likewise almost all free and open source software...

I think money is fascinating. A physical, malleable thing held in your hands. Taking on the form of bills & coins, which themselves carry heavy artistic and symbolic representations of the societies that made them. And yet here in the 21st century, the abstract nature of money...

There is no doubt that Twitter is collapsing. Millions of bytes have flown over the last few weeks describing the chaos both on the platform and in the private domain of its offices...