MPNM's Report

1.- What are the issues you found more innovative in reading Bouman et al. (2007)?

Bouman et al. present a conceptual model as well as a design framework to describe and explore the issue of social software design.

How to Design a software with these characteristics : all issues of enabling practice, mimicking reality, building identity and actualizing self, to motivate sociality in software tools. Bouman et al. proposed one framework

2.- Do you understand Wenger's (1998) claim that "Sociality cannot be designed; it can only be designed for"?

Wegner’s mentions that sociality cannot be designed but yes It’s possible to designed and generate the resources to achieve the sociality. Because a lot of people look to sociale through many tools simple or very advanced from ones the designed perspective.

The perspective of a designer is important to study all the social phenomena  in software for design new tools for better interaction between the group of users.

3.- Look at the list of references in the bibliography. Are you familiar with the System Theory sources they cite?

No I don’t know many sources, it’s something new for me to study the sociality in some tools.

4.- What do you think of having blogs as references in this work?

http://www.friendster.com/info/index.php?statpos=footer

Friendster is a social gaming site, where users share everything related to video games.

http://jameskoster.co.uk/blog/i-like-lastfm/

It’s a short blog for web logs, it is a kind of on line journal for a particular person. The owner will post a message periodically, allowing others to comment on it.

http://www.webpronews.com/

It’s a blog of news where the users share  all relevant about different topics.

http://gfmorris.net/2005/12/

It’s a blog where the owner shares his opinion or something else.

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/50686

Alternet is a site where publishes a combination of policy critiques, investigative reports and analysis, grassroots success stories, and personal narratives are published.

http://www.whatisleft.org/lookie_here/2006/12/why_i_twitter.html

Blogs, short for web logs, they  are like online journals for a particular person

http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/is_twitter_too_.html

It’s a blog where one user shares different information that is relevant for him.

5.- Did you visited any of those blogs?

Yes I did, and I’m very interested in some topics of different smart persons and I understand what is exactly a blog, because I was confusing the idea of a blog, I thought  blogs were a waste of time.