If you can help China, please do so. They need our prayer, but they need a lot more. Also, please remember these are human beings. Spite the type of government that is in China, it does not matter. People or people. Show you love by supporting these wonderful human beings.
Let me tell you, in the shortest possible terms, what this means. It means
you. Unless you’ve been extra careful to only watch
non-copyrighted videos on YouTube (yeah, right), Viacom could sue
you. No, it’s even worse: they could actually win.
A short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.
I present to you my latest icon creation! Glass Menagerie Icon Set 1 consists of 4 stunning web 2.0 icons: Twitter, Digg, YouTube & Facebook. They are free for personal use Only...enjoy and share the love :o)
'The house that tweets' This 2 minute video interview with Andy Stanford-Clark is much more entertaining than the YouTube interview I bookmarked earlier. Lots of action shots of home telemetry, Andy's Java midlet on his phone, and what I think is a GNOME desktop showing his home's web interface.
It's not that conversation doesn't occur, it's that I don't think that networks of conversations are the best way to understand the Twitter information ecosystem. A long-tail distribution of information sharing entities (accounts) co-creating knowledge is better, I think.
Serious essay by Mark Drapeau. Perhaps that explains why so many Twitterer are over 40: its demographic doesn't seem to be anything like myspace, youtube or orkut
SociafyQ is an analytics tool to help you measure your growth across numerous social networks, including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and includes tracking tools for blog keywords. \n\nAn XML widget connection is coming in a matter of days, along with external tracking widgets for your desktop. Enjoy!
Skimmer (download) is a new social aggregator powered by Adobe AIR. It supports Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, and Blogger, and lets you stay abreast of the latest content from each of those services. Everything gets sucked up into a single stream (a la FriendFeed), which you can then sort out by service, keyword, or group of friends.