Social Work

Folsom school club trains students to work with their autistic peers (The Sacramento Bee)

17 May 2008

Brandan Guzman rolls across the lawn in a plastic barrel, glides along the playground on a scooter board and swats balls with a giant tennis racket. Cassie Slaughter, 11, plays a game of catch with Jack Goldsmith, 10, who has autism. Cassie is a facilitation club officer at Gold Ridge Elementary School in Folsom, where students in the general population work with their autistic peers at ...

Social graphs just wanna be free, but will they ever be? (CNET)

17 May 2008

I can't really work up the same sense of outrage that's accompanied Facebook's decision to give Google the middle finger.

Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF (ZDNet)

17 May 2008

Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves...