{"id":46,"date":"2007-05-15T12:49:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T12:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/05\/15\/the-dangers-of-popularity-in-online-communities\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T08:29:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T08:29:02","slug":"the-dangers-of-popularity-in-online-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/05\/15\/the-dangers-of-popularity-in-online-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"The dangers of popularity in online communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/05\/14\/myspace_spam_blizzard\/\">article about MySpace spam<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/\">The Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the beginning, MySpace was a place to meet new friends and get to know old ones even better by browsing their journals, photos and network of chums.<\/p>\n<p>But soon, Viagra marketers, pedophiles and hackers latched onto MySpace and rendered it as ineffective as most other net-based public forums.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some MySpace groups have practically been killed off by spammers &#8211; and as we increasingly use websites and third-party web services in education, we have to consider how vulnerable online websites and communities can be.<\/p>\n<p>In mitigation of the danger, MySpace is a big target, and I&#8217;m sure that it could do a lot more to improve the situation*, so it&#8217;s not the end of the online learning world &#8211; but do we need contingency plans to cope with one&#8217;s VLE being attacked? Do you have them already?<\/p>\n<p>* MySpace rant unrelated to the security issues in the article: I really hate MySpace &#8211; the navigation makes no sense; I&#8217;ve told it I don&#8217;t want music to play automatically, yet it still does; you get the idea. As I&#8217;ve said elsewhere, the only good thing about it is that lots of people know about it, so it can serve as a crude search tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some MySpace groups have practically been killed off by spammers &#8211; and as we increasingly use websites and third-party web services in education, we have to consider how vulnerable online websites and communities can be. <a href=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/05\/15\/the-dangers-of-popularity-in-online-communities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-isthmus","category-web20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}