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Re: Don’t Hire Anyone Over 30: Ageism in Silicon Valley

frandallfarmer — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 22:40:05 -0000

I'm 53 and well known in my field (I have a wikipedia page.) Searched for over 2 years with over 400+ C-level contacts on LInkedIn, applied via websites hundreds of times and I was unable to get a salaried position at silicon valley companies on projects in fields that I *(co)invented*! Sold my Palo Alto house for a killing and moved to Oakland.

Re: Many LinkedIn users are currently unable to share links or status updates, but a fix is on the way

frandallfarmer — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:01:45 -0000

It is not fixed.

Re: Social Media Clarity • Social Sharing - Snapchat and the NSA Marc,...

frandallfarmer — Thu, 08 May 2014 15:43:48 -0000

Hmm. Looks like snapchat got in some hot water over this...

http://gigaom.com/2014/05/0...

SUMMARY: Snapchat promised users that the photos they send would “disappear forever” — a promise that turned out not to be true. The FTC responded with a 20 year consent decree.

Re: Social Media Clarity Podcast Episode List

frandallfarmer — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:03:02 -0000

Ryan,

Yay! Our first fan request!

We originally had a new episode planned to drop today, but illness ravaged our best laid plans with a special guest (that conversation has been rescheduled for two weeks later.)

We've got three episodes in the pipeline now... Something will drop between now and Monday, for sure. There's also a lineup of great folks from online communities management, social media research, and even more visionaries from the history of virtual worlds. Stay tuned!

In the future we're also going to do more episodes with just the three co-hosts commenting on the industry - since we all have so much to share. This will have the added benefit of creating a more regular release schedule.

Thanks for the prod!

Re: Social Media Clarity • Origin of Avatars, MMOs, and Freemium An...

frandallfarmer — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:33:07 -0000

Glad to have you on board, Sinoth. This episode is very popular, so we will definitely do more about related topics.

If any readers out there listen to us on iTunes, please give us a rating!

https://itunes.apple.com/us...

Re: Social Media Clarity • This episode we talk about web influence - what is...

frandallfarmer — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:55:01 -0000

Ryan,

As this editor (and being still new at this) I really appreciate the strong positive feedback on both the content and the form.

You're right about the "umms and ahs", so thanks for the confirmation that the extra work is worth it.

Re: Social Media Clarity • Origin of Avatars, MMOs, and Freemium An...

frandallfarmer — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:53:24 -0000

Stuart - so far you're the second person to suggest this. We'll definitely do at least one more in the coming weeks/months. Stay Tuned!

Re: Social Media Clarity • The second of two shows on Identity and Content...

frandallfarmer — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:59:29 -0000

2005 Penn State paper says that removing true anonymous comments improved discussion quality, but "Interestingly, pseudonymity is compatible with responsible online behavior. There was no statistically significant change in comment quality when actual identities were linked to usernames."

http://www.academia.edu/141...

Re: Real names, real problems: Pseudonymity under siege

frandallfarmer — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:56:17 -0000

More support: A 2005 Penn State paper says that removing true anonymous comments improved discussion quality, but "Interestingly, pseudonymity is compatible with responsible online behavior. There was no statistically significant change in comment quality when actual identities were linked to usernames."

http://www.academia.edu/141...

Re: Real names, real problems: Pseudonymity under siege

frandallfarmer — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:27:31 -0000

"pSynrg" - Though you state "I appreciate the irony of my pseudonym", you do not follow up by posting your real name - double ironic?

I am posting under a *variant* of my real name - but not my legal name - therefore a pseudonym. Is that good enough for you?

"Basically online should be no different than offline." Funny that, pseudonyms are common "offline", especially to hide gender and ethnicity: Mark Twain, Richard Bachman, J. K. Rowling, Clive Hamilton.

Re: no_bogus_patent_pledge [IP-Reform.org]

frandallfarmer — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:10:49 -0000

Frank Randall Farmer

Re: IP-Reform.org

frandallfarmer — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:21:26 -0000

Feel free to leave comments here...

Re: Rebooting the Online Community Unconference (OCTribe)

frandallfarmer — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:43:05 -0000

We will be releasing the notes as a PDF, which we will publish here on the wiki as well.

Re: Rebooting the Online Community Unconference (OCTribe)

frandallfarmer — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:40:14 -0000

This is currently an open wiki - and given that we are using the stone-soup method of putting this conference together, feel free to comment or make changes directly to the page(s) in question...

Re: Welcome to the interim OCTribe wiki

frandallfarmer — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:25:24 -0000

I've moved the OCTribe.org site off of Yahoo! onto Amazon web hosting - where I can install some real software. This means rebooting/nuking the old comments, but there were only about 10 anyway.

For now, the wiki is open. I'll keep it that way until it becomes a problem.

So far the only problem seems to be that the SMTP server isn't working, so subscribing to a page won't work. But, subscribing to the comment threads will work because they are hosted on Disqus.

Re: Welcome to the interim OCTribe wiki

frandallfarmer — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:25:39 -0000

If anyone is interested, Marc hosts a Q&A Google Hangout. Next one is on Thursday: https://plus.google.com/u/0...

Re: Welcome to the interim OCTribe wiki

frandallfarmer — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:02:02 -0000

You can upload .ppt and .pptx now. Let me know is there are any other formats you'd like to upload.

Re: Welcome to the interim OCTribe wiki

frandallfarmer — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:04:20 -0000

Scott,
I don't see anything in a moderation queue. I think I'll just add an account here on the wiki for you and you can edit away... Watch for an email.

I resent credentials to you all (I'd created accounts for you here years ago...)

Re: Welcome to the interim OCTribe wiki

frandallfarmer — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:38:42 -0000

Did you click-through on any of them? There is detail explaining how they were generated. For example, the OCTribe page starts with this description:

"The graph represents a network of 16 Twitter users whose recent tweets contained "octribe", taken from a data set limited to a maximum of 1,500 users. The network was obtained on Tuesday, 11 December 2012 at 17:27 UTC. There is an edge for each follows relationship. There is an edge for each "replies-to" relationship in a tweet. There is an edge for each "mentions" relationship in a tweet. There is a self-loop edge for each tweet that is not a "replies-to" or "mentions". The tweets were made over the 6-day, 5-hour, 39-minute period from Tuesday, 04 December 2012 at 09:45 UTC to Monday, 10 December 2012 at 15:25 UTC."

There's a lot more there including content drill-down for things like URLs and the like. Each of the graphs contains data like that.

This calls out the people who are most proactive on twitter around various tags. At the very least, we would know who to reach out to about any unification efforts...

Re: Welcome to the interim OCTribe wiki

frandallfarmer — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:35:29 -0000

Marc continues to run graphs -here's #custserv: https://nodexlgraphgallery....

Re: 5 Reputation Missteps [video] @Google 7/1

frandallfarmer — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:39:59 -0000

They didn't break cost-benefit out for this project, but my personal estimates were that the cost was probably around $500,000 if you include fully loading the cost of the reputation platform onto this single project. If you discount that (as reusable software), it was probably closer to $200,000.

Re: A Case Study: Yahoo! Answers Community Moderation

frandallfarmer — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:43:47 -0000

The idea behind the Yahoo! Answers Community Moderation design was that the users decide what should be taken down - which is immune to language issues. :-) Automatic spam filters are depending less and less on language specific algorithms and often depend on IP-based reputation as a first line of defense (one of many.)

Re: Abusing FICO

frandallfarmer — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:58:12 -0000

From testimony on U.S. Congressional Bill HR-3149 Amendment (2010) http://www.opencongress.org...
as reported in BusinessWeek http://www.businessweek.com...
"Lenders use credit scores, such as the one developed by Minneapolis-based FICO, as a measure of credit worthiness in providing credit cards, mortgages and auto loans. Insurance companies use the scores to predict the likelihood of a claim and employers may check credit reports when hiring to determine how honest an employee may be, said Liz Pulliam Weston, author of “Your Credit Score.”

Nearly half of employers use credit reports in employment decisions, according to the National Consumer Law Center, a nonprofit based in Boston. Credit checks in hiring discriminate against African American and Latino job applicants and don’t predict job performance, said Chi Chi Wu, a staff attorney for the law center.

Re: Oct-06-10 SVPMA Talk: Web Reputations: Putting Social Media to Work in Your Products

frandallfarmer — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:17:38 -0000

Thanks! Chowhound is a pretty amazing example of how a well-meaning PM can misunderstand the motivations of their audience. The blog post I took that story from is here:
http://buildingreputation.c...

Re: Facebook Granted Broad Patent Covering Location-Based Social Networks And Checkins

frandallfarmer — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:13:35 -0000

Hmm. I'm not 100% sure, but I think Marc Davis filed a patent on behalf of Yahoo! that might predate this. If so, this is the at least second time that Facebook has managed to accelerate the process to get a patent grant that lapped prior-art that is in the PTO's 4+year long queue.

One of the problems - people use different names for the same things they invent (they borrow different metaphors) - so keyword searches don't find prior art. :-P

When will the madness end?