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Online communities are all the rage in recent web-talk. Friendster, Orkut, RSS feeds, and blog rolls have popularized the idea of social networks in cyberspace and have given thousands of people easy access to participation in an online group. But does anybody know what these communities really look like? AudioBerkman was looking for answers to exactly this question, so we traveled to South by Southwest Interactive one example of an online community to find out what happens when a social network meets, not just in real time, but in real space. In the age of WiFi and wikis, has technology made us more interactive or less? Listen in to find out.

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• Read a Berkman Briefing about social networks at SXSW, “Interacting at Interactive“.
• Check out Mie Kennedy’s moblog, kokochi.com.
• Learn more about SXSW Interactive.
• Listen to AudioBerkman’s audio-postcard, The Sounds of South by Southwest, that aired on NPR’s noon program, Day-to-Day.
• Follow the research of Berkman Fellow John Clippinger who is working on the technical dimensions of social networking questions. Clippinger is working to build more sophisticated platforms to support nuanced social networking systems.