Do-It-Yourself Broadcasting: Writing Weblogs in a Knowledge Society
Very cool article that talks about not opnly blogging, a core paert of participatory culture, but also has some great analysis of how media manipulates our understanding of events. Scroll down to the middle images to see some shocking info re how we were fooled at the beginning of the Iraq War.
Course materials online re wikis, RSS geeds, gaming, blogging, virtual worlds, media sharing, etc. by a Toronto librarian and tech geek. Good articles and links.
Students in schools around the world find that their research, creativity and learning potential is seriously curbed by filtering and lack of use of their own mobile and gaming devices in schools.
In the last year, YouTube has become the second most popular search tool for consumers. By August of this year, search queries on YouTube reached 9.2 billion (a 123% increase year on year), surpassing Yahoo! sites which had 8.5 billion queries.