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Plus: Jason Kottke's two selves; Kate Losse on the ice bucket challenge; Josh Marshall on people you can't talk to.

http://www.wordyard.com/2014/09/22/links-why-wouldnt-you-make-your-own-social-network/

Plus: "Trusted information delivery" vs. curated entertainment, or how Facebook set itself up for distrust. Also: "The things that will last on the Internet are not owned."

http://www.wordyard.com/2014/09/06/links-henry-viiis-of-the-web-social-all-the-way-down/

Plus: Back to blogging; an open plug-in system for News Feed algorithms; de-anonymizing Secret; and more.

http://www.wordyard.com/2014/09/01/links-studying-facebook-right-adjusting-to-the-nets-vastness/

Also: The "horror of social media." Federated Wiki as an alternative to today's web. And "computers tell us who we really are." This week's trove of readables and quotables.

http://www.wordyard.com/2014/08/22/links-twitters-iron-dome-anonymous-app-dinners-secrets-of-postsecret/

In this roundup: That wasn't just our moods and our dates that Facebook and OKCupid's "experiments" were messing with -- it was our identities and our creations. Plus: alternative takes on privac...

http://www.wordyard.com/2014/08/03/links-facebook-virginia-woolf-ibsen-online-nests-ad-bots-and-tech-offices/

The president of the American Enterprise Institute is sounding like a hippie; Google+ and Facebook both get comfy with personas; and more links on identity, self-presentation and life-hacking.

http://www.wordyard.com/2014/07/20/links-play-names-on-facebook-and-google-free-marketer-goes-all-gandhi/

Facebook's latest privacy turnaround; why you can't assume that "the news will find you"; what's missing from email newsletters; and more links about being ourselves beyond social media.

http://www.wordyard.com/2014/07/13/links-leaving-facebook-sockpuppets-on-tv-everybody-hurts-even-robots/

What happens when you overdo the Botox before you take your online-dating profile portrait -- and so much more in this week's link roundup.

http://www.wordyard.com/2014/06/28/links-butt-biting-facades-fake-followers-a-new-mesh-net/

Twitter trolls impersonate caricatures of feminists; targeted ads evoke the Freudian uncanny; the president yearns to go incognito; and other links for the week.

http://www.wordyard.com/2014/06/21/links-twitter-trolls-data-doppelgangers-obama-anon/

On Twitter, who's bot and who's not? Who's a person and who's a company? Where will Facebook's tracking end? Why are secret identities hot? Who is working on decentralization? And more.

http://www.wordyard.com/2014/06/13/links-twitter-as-distributed-turing-test-tracked-till-you-drop-were-all-superheroes-now/