It’s probably the inner academic in me but I love white papers. Adrian Chan, an award-winning web developer located in San Francisco, California, specializing in  social interaction design has put together an interesting white paper examining principles of social interaction design through examples of social software sites such as Flickr, Tribe, Friendster, MySpace, and others.
Its […]

The Critical Path - Words, Thoughts and Musings of Nii A. Ahene winning the search rankings for the term ‘Nii’. It’s vain I know and I have a lot of competition from organizations like  National Institute of Immunology in India, but I think I can get onto the first SERP (Currently on the the 5th) […]

I really don’t want subjugate you to this kind of neglect but I’ve been really busy lately. Between work, consulting, and fleshing out new ideas, I haven’t had much time to write good, quality entries.
I’ll try to update once a week, with if nothing else some links to news stories or articles that I’ve found […]

I’m going to save my saliva on this one. If you haven’t heard YOU are Time’s person of the year because UGC has done so much to change the world this year (Iraq? Lebanon? Palestine? China? India? Definitely nothing going on there). Dominic Knight of the Radar sums it up best:
This strikes me as another […]

I’m a casual writer, frequent reader of the heel press, here are my thoughts on the changes:
While the old writing base may be alienated by the changes to the format, the fact remains that the old format was not stickiest… The new model lowers barriers to entry. Not everyone can be a writer, but almost […]

Nii Ahene (2:28:41 PM): well they were founded during the first .com boom
Nii Ahene (2:28:49 PM): so i see how they were able to pull that off
Rick (2:28:54 PM): yeah
Rick (2:29:02 PM): that helped them to blow up
Nii Ahene (2:29:05 PM): though things are feeling boomish again now
Rick (2:29:13 PM): a little bit
Rick (2:29:19 PM): […]

From the UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business On-line Application essay prompt.
“As reported by the New York Times in the June 11, 2006 article, For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Resume, some recruiters are looking up applicants on social networking sites like Facebook.com, where college students often post risqué photographs and provocative comments in […]

Music sales
Oct 26th 2006
From The Economist print edition

Not surprisingly, America is the world’s biggest music market, with retail sales of $4.9 billion in the first half of the year. However, Britain, Japan and Norway, which is only the 19th-biggest market, buy more music per person. Rich does not necessarily mean big: Brazil, with sales of […]

Apparently no one could comment on my entries because of security errors. They’ve been fixed, meaning that you can shower me with adulation now. =).

How do you spell psych? Is that right? In any event, I enjoy visiting Peter Cashmore’s excellent web 2.0 blog His latest entry, however, is a departure from the quality of perceptiveness most of his readers have become accustomed to.
On closer inspection of the press release it looks like comScore tracks unique visitors and not […]