{"id":526,"date":"2004-02-03T22:11:32","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T02:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/02\/03\/ork-orkin-orkut-the-lord-of-the-webri"},"modified":"2004-02-03T22:11:32","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T02:11:32","slug":"ork-orkin-orkut-the-lord-of-the-webrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/02\/03\/ork-orkin-orkut-the-lord-of-the-webrings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ork?  Orkin?  Orkut? The Lord of the (web)Rings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1017'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allied.blogspot.com\/\">Jeneane Sessum<\/a> is a powerhouse of information.  By following her bloglinks and her community and network links on Orkut, I can find out so much&#8230;  It&#8217;s mind-boggling.  Some people I know (like my husband) might think there&#8217;s an element of trivia here, but I&#8217;m not so sure &#8212; after all, the only reason I ever went in for academia is because I&#8217;m naturally snoopy (research, sweetie, research!).  Around 4th grade I discovered, however, that being a secret agent (I dreamed of being an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalavengers.com\/home.html\">Avenger<\/a>!) was too sordid and dangerous in real life, but when I was 23 it struck me that being a researcher was a safe alternative.  (Ha.)  So, I like to snoo&#8230; I mean, research.  Because of Jeneane, I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/paulboutin.weblogger.com\/2004\/02\/01#a576\">Paul Boutin&#8217;s blog<\/a> where I learned that Wesley Clark is on Orkut.  And by following another link of hers, I wound up at <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2004_01_01_archive.html#107551106686841619\">BoingBoing<\/a> where they (she? Xeni?) posed the <b>Orkut = Roach Motel<\/b> analogy: you can check in, but you can&#8217;t check out.  She <a href=\"http:\/\/allied.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_allied_archive.html#107581845752718761\">has<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/allied.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_allied_archive.html#107578410298557933\">whole string<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/allied.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_allied_archive.html#107580560408618096\">links<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/allied.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_allied_archive.html#107580597591348072\">everyone<\/a> who has <a href=\"http:\/\/allied.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_allied_archive.html#107580631925504579\">been<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/allied.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_allied_archive.html#107580816491738552\">posting<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/allied.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_allied_archive.html#107580441532830015\">about Orkut<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/allied.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_allied_archive.html#107570457837280239\">stuff<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/allied.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_allied_archive.html#107581975829355416\">it<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<p>But you know what&#8217;s really weird?  <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.burningbird.net\/\">Shelley Powers<\/a> managed to check out of Orkut!  <i>Incroyable<\/i>.  I read her blog <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.burningbird.net\/fires\/connecting\/and_then_i_quit_orkut.htm\">&#8230;and then I quit Orkut<\/a> and thought she was just <i>saying<\/i> that she was leaving.  But she did it.  And here I was thinking Orkut is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkin.com\/\">Orkin<\/a> with its guarantee that it will kill you dead&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeneane Sessum is a powerhouse of information. By following her bloglinks and her community and network links on Orkut, I can find out so much&#8230; It&#8217;s mind-boggling. 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