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Jeffrey Chen

5 principles for Web 2.0 success - 1 views

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    Do you want success in designing a website? Web 2.0 principles at use
Jeffrey Chen

Web 2.0 strategy - 1 views

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    A great slide that helped my group and myself plan how to best apply web 2.0 strategies to our club 2.0
Andrew DeWitt

YouTube - What is Google Chrome OS? - 1 views

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    Wow!  Google Chrome is becoming its own OS.  If you thought using a mac was really easy and user friendly, image a computer where the computer IS your web brower.
Margaret Weddle

Teachers: Master Student Cell Phones! - 1 views

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    Suggestions to use cell phones in a classroom, rather than hating them - insightful and inspiring, especially since we talked about such things!
Sean Watson

The FP Twitterati 100 - 1 views

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    These days, everyone from the Dalai Lama to Bill Gates is on Twitter, the microblogging platform founded in 2006. During breaking news events like the death of Osama bin Laden or for following the Arab uprisings, it's become an invaluable tool for keeping up to speed. But for many, it's still just another place to promote their own work, rather than engaging in a more natural give-and-take. So how do you tell who's really worth following? FP's got you covered. Here are 100 Twitter users from around the world who will make you smarter, infuriate you, and delight you -- 140 characters at a time.
Ariel Szuch

Academic Evolution: Dear Students: Don't Let College Unplug Your Future - 1 views

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    An excellent, must-read post by our very own Dr. Burton.
Gideon Burton

Dear Internet: It's No Longer OK to Not Know How Congress Works - 1 views

  • the federal government is not attached to Moore's Law
  • Here's an area for both some disruption and some lobbying. Let's build tools that allow members of Congress to aggregate messages being sent to them, and to associate those messages with congressional districts. Let's come up with a way for a member to see what their constituency is saying about any particular issue they'd like, and let's provide that as an open service so that anybody can see what a particular constituency is saying. That way, when a member has a track record of voting against the desires of a substantial portion of his or her district, we've got a record of it, and it can get brought up in the next election.
  • Right now, your voice online -- in the mediums you participate in, not only don't matter: legally they can't matter. Online identities don't count when it comes to the official record
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  • The skill of making software isn't just about making cool software. It's about rewiring society. The sooner we acknowledge that, the sooner we can get on with the rewiring, and hopefully with a watchful eye, rewire it for the better.
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    Very important article on those in the info culture needing to understand and speak the language of Congress in order to properly educate and influence it on internet related matters.
Gideon Burton

Digital in 2012: The web will make us smarter / Constant Beta - 1 views

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    A healthy critique of problems with internet culture to date with some suggestions for engineering a more substantial online experience. 
Gideon Burton

Information Diet | Learn to Be a Better Activist During the SOPA Blackouts - 1 views

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    The best way to prevent things like SOPA from happening is to make online activists smart
Gideon Burton

NationBuilder - the Community Organizing System - 1 views

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    An excellent integrated tool for advocacy, campaigns, and creating change. This organizes supporters and integrates the live web and social media, events, fundraising, etc.
Gideon Burton

A federal judge learned to code - O'Reilly Radar - 1 views

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    A good case made for programming being part of cultural competence.
Gideon Burton

Magazine - Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic - 1 views

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    A classic article critical of how the internet affects us cognitively/
Gideon Burton

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine - 1 views

  • What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Gideon Burton

Creating New Business Models with Transactional APIs | Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog - 1 views

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    Content vs. Transactional APIs. As a non-programmer, I've come to learn just how critical it is to understand how APIs articulate services and people across the web. This article explains levels of API openness (perhaps a metaphor for non-commercial entities)
Gideon Burton

Watch | Everything Is a Remix - 1 views

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    A web series that is and is about remix (history and theory)
Gideon Burton

Playing Games for All the Wrong Reasons - IGN - 1 views

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    On the achievement psychology of video games
Gideon Burton

The Internet map - 1 views

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    Relative size / popularity of various online services shown through different sized circles.
Gideon Burton

Remix Culture: The Many Incarnations of the Mona Lisa - From Dali to Banksy - 1 views

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    Recommended by Jill Walker Rettberg
Gideon Burton

Ravelry and knitting: Why Facebook can't match the social network for knitters. - Slate... - 1 views

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    Benefits of a social network for a niche interest community (knitting)
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