Social Networking – Jason D. Rowley

Dive Into Network Theory: Some Resources for The Curious

Sep 4, 2016

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Earlier this week I published a piece for Mattermark’s blog that maps and visualizes the network of international mergers and acquisitions of startups and a few other private companies. To accomplished this, I used data from Mattermark recording 2,250 cross-border M&A deals made between January 1, 2015 and the end of August, 2015. The visualization…

An Open Letter to the Higher Education System

Jun 6, 2011

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Jason D. Rowley

in The Halcyon Days

Dear All, I think what’s going on here is a confusion of ends and means. Guys, I believe very deeply in your end goal. I believe in the individual, and I believe every individual can and should be an expert in something, and that that person should be held individually accountable for her or his…

How (Some of) Us College Kids Feel About Facebook

Jun 1, 2011

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Jason D. Rowley

in The Halcyon Days

I subscribe to a very, very heavily-trafficed LISTSERV mailing list called Wallace-l. While the primary subject is David Foster Wallace, there are often discussions about topics tangentially related to him, such as, in this case, a commencement address by contemporary writer Jonathan Franzen at Kenyon College, where David Foster Wallace delivered his famous address which…

Social News Curator Newsle The Most Promising Web Startup at 2011 Kairos SummitStartup

Mar 1, 2011

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Jason D. Rowley

in The Halcyon Days

Here’s an excerpt from my most recent post for Flyover Geeks. Check it out here. The most promising new web startup featured at the Kairos Summit, Newsle, is a social news-curation tool built by a couple of whip-smart Harvard sophomores, Axel Hansen and Jonah Varon. Newsle has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education and TechCrunch, and…

Who Says Facebook Killed Smart Public Discourse?

Nov 30, 2010

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Jason D. Rowley

in The Halcyon Days

Me. Yeah, I said it. Facebook killed intelligent conversation. Occasionally though, intelligent people, like my friend and UNAI co-conspirator Patrick Ip, post a quote from another (ostensibly) intelligent person on their Facebook feeds (né “walls”), and somehow, without rhyme or reason, a torrent of responses issues forth.

Tag: Social Networking

Dive Into Network Theory: Some Resources for The Curious

An Open Letter to the Higher Education System

How (Some of) Us College Kids Feel About Facebook

Social News Curator Newsle The Most Promising Web Startup at 2011 Kairos SummitStartup

Who Says Facebook Killed Smart Public Discourse?