It’s the Technology of the Year!. The article highlights the trends we’ve seen in the past year, and the excitement of many about the software, notes that privacy is the “achilles heel,” but predicts that the the “potential value of social capital will prove too tempting to resist.

ETHER is a new, collaborative blog by Jenny Ambrozek, Marcia Morante, and Lynne Bundesen. Jenny and Marcia are in my network — but from different hubs — and I do not yet know Lynne.

They have created a restful and thoughtful place, and begin with the perspective of the official closing of the Prodigy online communities. [...]

thebigidea posts the transcript of a New Zealand National Radiointerview with Dave Snowden. Dave tells about his work with the US agencies trying to understand 9/11 and about sense-making across cultures. He also tells the great story about the West Point Cadets who were given a week to prepare to manage a playground. It’s a [...]

Keith Hampton’s Homepage includes a new blog. I am familiar with Keith’s work in social network analysis in a Toronto suburb that was wired for Internet access. I liked hearing Barry Wellmen talk about Keith’s field work — Keith actually lived in this suburb for a couple of years as it was built and watched [...]

Monster To Debut Networking For Job Seekers reports that Monster.com, which was one of the first web site job aggregators, is launching networking services for professionals. No word on how much it will cost, yet, nor how it will differentiate itself. Just another signpost on the road to a too-networked world?