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Demystifying Social Computing

September 2nd, 2009 by Mike

Social computing technologies are an increasingly vital part of consumers’ lives. Industry analyst Forrester Research reports that use of social networking sites grew a whopping 90 percent from 2006 to 2007; in the same time period, blog consumption grew by 83 percent and the number of consumers relying on RSS feeds to distill content jumped fully 300 percent. Consumers are talking to each other.

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I moved to Maine when I was 16 years old. I got my start as a feeder operator on a press. After a side step into the dying art of letterpress printing (which I quite enjoyed), I moved into film-based prepress. Building on that experience I then jumped head-first into digital prepress. I came on board at Spire Express in 2000, staying quite busy for some time doing imagesetting. Now here I am on the other side of yet another transition (away from silver-based imaging), working to stay on my toes with new technologies and media. When I'm not working, I enjoy playing the fiddle and banjo. Portland is a great town in which to work and play music.

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