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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 8 Reasons Bloggers Hide Their Blog: A Call for You to share a link to your blog

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:16:29 -0000

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Facebook | Diigo Users, spread the word!

Fri, 09 May 2008 17:22:58 -0000

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test in facebook group... to spread the word... posted by akozoom

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ok so maybe this is a dumb question, but ... | Diigo Message System

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:39:24 -0000

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Posted by: mactechteacher

Fair use and transformativeness: It may shake your world - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on School Library Journal

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:33:52 -0000

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My new understanding:

I learned on Friday night that the critical test for fairness in terms of educational use of media is transformative use. When a user of copyrighted materials adds value to, or repurposes materials for a use different from that for which it was originally intended, it will likely be considered transformative use; it will also likely be considered fair use. Fair use embraces the modifying of existing media content, placing it in new context.

Examples of transformativeness might include: using campaign video in a lesson exploring media strategies or rhetoric, using music videos to explore such themes as urban violence, using commercial advertisements to explore messages relating to body image or the various different ways beer makers sell beer, remixing a popular song to create a new artistic expression.

Transformative Use- what a beautiful concept for copyright law. posted by mrplough07

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Posted by: mrplough07

Diigo and First Year Research | Techno-Rhetoric Cafe

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:39:12 -0000

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In the fall, I ran across a new social bookmarking site–Diigo. I started using Diigo with a paper that I was writing and loved it for several reasons. First, it’s a social bookmarking site which meant that I could peruse the links of other people on the site. Second, Diigo gave me the Furl functionality of highlighting and annotating, but the format seemed easier and the interface was more aesthetically speaking (in my opinion). While I was in this stage of tinkering, I met with one of my dissertation committee members and I was talking about the focus of my dissertation–blogging. He very bluntly reminded me that my entire dissertation could not focus only on blogging, but needed to be focused on more features. I was in a bind–I wanted to focus on the advantages to writing that came from blogs, not all medias. But the more I played around with Diigo, the more a little grain of an idea began to grow. My dissertation should note about the advantages to writing–but about collaboration through Web 2.0

So, this semester, I went out on a limb and offered my students the option of collaborating on their research this semester. They were already not looking forward to the research, but the idea of using each other to further their research sounded like a good idea. Still, they weren’t jumping at the idea. Then, I gave them a quick walkthrough of Diigo. Their eyes lit up like they had just been given a present–and it wasn’t even their birthday. One student looked dumbfounded and asked:

“Is it really that easy?”

“It sure is.” I replied.

Students Use Social Bookmarking

Just like I learned with blogging in the classroom, I know that students get more out of methods of learning that they use in their free time. So, social bookmarking was a way for me to engage my students not only in the research, but in conversations with the research. Social bookmarking, regardless of the site used, creates a conversation among members interested in the same tag. Each time a member marks a bookmark, they are speaking to their networks and saying “Read this.”

Annotation is Suddenly Fun

Each semester, I try (in vain, usually) to get my students to annotate their text book. I do this to prepare them not only for future studies, but also for the annotation that research demands they do. Diigo, suddenly, makes the students want to annotate their bookmarks. It is their chance to make sure the world (or their group) knows how important specific words on a webpage are to them.

Diigo allows a More Advanced Conversation

As I mentioned above, social bookmarking allows students to engage in a conversation with other scholars on the same topic. Diigo allows this conversation to move beyond just the “Read this” comment and actually allows the students to create a dialogue. Through Diigo, students have a variety of ways to engage in this dialogue.

Creating Groups–creating groups of individuals within their network who are researching on the same topic allows students to share bookmarks they have found.
Using Forums–Within a group, the administrator has the opportunity to create a forum that allows each member of the group to ask and respond to specific issues on a topic. For example, if one student cannot find statistics, they can mention this in the forum and receive an answer (or better yet, a bookmark) from one of the group members.
Highlighting–This allows one student to specifically show others in the group what they find important about the bookmark. But the highlights are not owned or seen by just the individual. If John shares a bookmark with highlighting, Frank can not only see John’s highlighting, but can also add his own highlighting (which is also available to John).
Sticky Notes–In addition to highlighting, students can add to the conversation on the page. Their comments can be seen by others who read the page (if the notes are public) and their friends can add to this conversation.

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Posted by: maggie_diigo

Diigo Releases Version 3 - Beyond Bookmarks

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:17:42 -0000

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try this posted by toancle

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using all the function of Diigo’s innovation and refinements, has the ability to help build relationships based around perhaps our greatest asset – knowledge. Facebook, MyBlogLog, Digg and a host of other communities are based

The point here is, Diigo is not really a bookmarking site. The essence of this tool is research and secondarily productive community.

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Posted by: toancle

Diigo is a research tool that rocks

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:49:15 -0000

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I just looked at the new research megatool Diigo and though several bloggers have covered it in the past and in previous incarnations (including our charming leader) I think they really missed the boat when many called it an unexciting entry into the crowded social bookmarking space. This is a web based knowledge worker’s dream come true, it’s the kind of thing that makes me love web apps.

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Posted by: abo46n2

roxomatic - Sechs gewichtige Argumente für diigo

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:18:07 -0000

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Posted by: kossatsch

Contact List (News)

Sat, 12 May 2007 07:28:01 -0000

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It is great to see the wiki philosophy in TrailFire (partially) applied. My suggestion is: what about WikiWords (like the last one),i.e. automatic links to a dedicated Wiki for each trail. In the same sense each mark should be individually addressable via an URL as a wiki-page. Another more powerful option would be a global TrailFire community wiki, which would be a common database for making rich link context supported marks. Thank you for making TrailFire available as very helpful community service that brings our planet on a new level of togetherness.

Posted by fridemar | May 11, 2007 3:31 PM

Dear Diigos, I love Diigo and I love increasingly FireTrail (I am quite new there). They even have realized some wikiness there. To keep both social annotation informed, I give you a copy of my blog comment there: Copy: It is great to see the wiki philosophy in TrailFire (partially) applied. My suggestion is: what about WikiWords (like the last one),i.e. automatic links to a dedicated Wiki for each trail. In the same sense each mark should be individually addressable via an URL as a wiki-page. Another more powerful option would be a global TrailFire community wiki, which would be a common database for making rich link context supported marks. Thank you for making TrailFire available as very helpful community service that brings our planet on a new level of togetherness. Posted by fridemar | May 11, 2007 3:31 PM CopyEnd posted by fridemar

Glad you like the wiki features. We have definitely thought about expanding the wiki-ness (or at least, the ability of the author to enable wiki-ness) in some of the ways you mention. We'll be continuing to add features that make it easy to collaborate on projects around a trail or set of trails, with a group of contacts or with the world at large.

Posted by Mike Perkowitz | May 11, 2007 4:10 PM

Dear Diigos,
this was the answer of Mike Perkowitz, who had implemented a lot of Trailfire:

Copy:

Glad you like the wiki features. We have definitely thought about expanding the wiki-ness (or at least, the ability of the author to enable wiki-ness) in some of the ways you mention. We'll be continuing to add features that make it easy to collaborate on projects around a trail or set of trails, with a group of contacts or with the world at large.

Posted by Mike Perkowitz | May 11, 2007 4:10 PM
CopyEnd:

I qote him here, for your convenience, because the clip didn't show up under the Diigo bookmarks.

By the same observation, although I wanted to tag this bookmark with the tags: "diigo wiki annotation trailfire blog comment", I couldn't find an entry. Suggestion: Leave a field for tagging in your "Add sticky note" or at least in the Actionsbox. Thank you.

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Adding Suggested Tags - feature,tag - Diigo Community | Diigo Group Forum

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:02:29 -0000

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Another proposal, from Dave Beckett (2006), is to make more use of the social context within which tags are created by separating the tool that creates the tags from the tool with which
they are used. He also proposes that wiki pages should be created for individual tags which
users could then add to/edit so that the wiki page, in effect, becomes the tag. The on-going
process of refinement for each separate tag would form a kind of consensus as to the meaning
of that tag and would also record the processes (the semantic path) by which the end result is
being reached. This would, to take just one simple example, allow direct links to other
language versions of the same tag.

I like something like this. On a webpage one clip is relevant for one user, another clip on the same webpage relevant for another user. There are more than one way to interpret a clip thus a clip as a object the more tags attached to it the more possible meanings it can have, and in different contexts. posted by olebrudvik

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Posted by: olebrudvik

Duly Consider: America in Denial: The Virginia Tech Shooting -- Cho's Obituary

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:08:36 -0000

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Refusing to change, society eventually goes on as if nothing ever happened, considering it a freak accident of one person's mental disturbance. The parents of Cho, after a brief period of mourning, will go on with their lives despite the never ending reminder of their son's final cry. Meanwhile, we continue to send people like Cho into war instead of college and their cries go unnoticed as their anger becomes redirected at a false enemy. Politicians continue to create fake adversaries against whom soldiers can masturbate their torment, while the real enemy is a society that let's the rich profit from this misdirection. posted by trnscndr
Normally I try to keep this area focused on Diigo-related stuff, this is such an tragic situation - I'd like to express my condolence to the families...

We need much better gun control in US! posted by maggie_diigo

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Posted by: trnscndr

Save every Web site: best bookmarking tools - Internet

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:26:44 -0000

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Diigo is the most useful tool for take-it-with-you research. It not only organizes and tags bookmarks, it also lets you mark up Web pages as you would a paperback book--with sticky notes, highlights, and comments--then share those notes with others.

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Posted by: maggie_diigo