I was invited to edit a column about social
computing for IEEE Computer magazine. The column
publishes short articles (2000 words) about interesting
developments in social computing. The model is to find
a few interesting research papers, relate them to
activity going on in the commercial side of the social
web, and then gaze into the crystal ball to try to
predict the future. Most of the articles I co-author
with a colleague, but for a couple of them I've invited
someone to write a whole column on their own. Feel free
to email me a column idea. An abstract is best, rather
than a full column, so I can help you develop the idea
if it's in the right direction. The articles are great
fun to write -- and some people say they're fun to read,
too. The complete list of articles is:
Crowdsourcing Medical Research
Bots
and Cyborgs: Wikipedia's Immune System
Are
Our Online "Friends" Really Friends?
Crowdsourcing
Maps
Let's
Gang Up on Cyberbullying
Expressing
My Inner Gnome: Appearance and Behavior in Virtual
Worlds
Folksonomy
Formation
The
Past, Present, and Future of Wikipedia
The
Promise and Peril of Social Computing
I've given links to the IEEE Explore site, which I
think is the place that knows about most organizational
subscriptions to IEEE Computer. I find the IEEE
Computer approach to subscriptions confusing, though: in
your organization there may be another place to get to
the free copies. Often Google Scholar is the best way
to find the articles.