Learn more about virtual communities and social software

I am working for a social software startup and know as much as anyone for my chosen specialty.

http://bibliocommons.com/

I have joined MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Orkut.
http://www.myspace.com/habibmi
http://www.friendster.com/habibmi
http://unc.facebook.com/p.php?id=2724087&l=29cd0f9cdf
http://www.linkedin.com/in/habib

I completed this class in the Fall of 2005.
Class website: http://ibiblio.org/pjones/jomc191/
Class blog: http://jomc191.blogsome.com/

For this class I wrote a review of 43Things:
http://www.unc.edu/~mchabib/43things/index.html
and began a blog:
http://mchabib.blogspot.com/

The following were the main readings for the class:
Required reading for this seminar:

Gillmor, Dan. We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People. O’Reilly and Associates July 2004.

Granovetter, Mark S. Strength of Weak Ties. Available from JSTOR at link above or The American Journal of Sociology © 1973 The Uniersity of Chicago Press.

Gurak, Laura, et al. Eds. “Into the Blogosphere”

Preece, Jenny. Online Communities, Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2000.

Wellman, Barry and Haythornwaite, Caroline, eds. Internet in Everyday Life. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2002.

Lin, Nan. Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action. Cambridge UP, 2001.