Year in review meme, 2006 version

Ganked from hinikuish. It was interesting last year, so....

Copy and paste the first sentence from the first post of each month, and that's your year in review.

( Pretty good year )

Social networking article

Really interesting article on friends and Friends and Friending in social networking sites:

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_12/boyd/index.html

It's from First Monday, which is an academic library science journal, so it's somewhat densely written. Still well worth reading I think. The focus is on Friendster and MySpace, but a lot of the dynamics discussed are very familiar. There is mention of a similar paper about LJ, which I would love to read. Doesn't seem to be available online, though; I'll poke around a bit.