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Danah Boyd researcher into social media is about to talk about what technologists can learn from the rest of humanity. It's timely - sometimes at these tech conferences you get the sense that reality is fast disappearing in the rear view mirror

Danah is using Harry Potter as a metaphor (whcih will be a ) she wonders if technologist aren't sometimes like the dark magicians in Harry Potter who snear at the non-magical (muggles). Danah is encouraging us to learn from people's lives.

Magic has been a continuing metaphor at the conference; the Arthure C Clarke quote that sufficiently advanced technologies would be indestinguishable from magic is a theme. The preceding talk has also been about seeing ubiquitous computing as a kind of magic. We've even been treated to Mathamagic - you can see a bit of Arthur Benhamin's

UPDATE: By an odd co-incidence they've just released the