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Interesting post about the changing landscape of blogging. Applies to the edublogosphere as well in some respects.

Interesting blog post on the time it takes to be involved in different types of social media.

Social media. Web 2.0. You know what these things are and you take advantage of them every day on the net. Whether you're socializing on Facebook, updating Twitter, or just adding a new bookmark to Ma.gnolia, social media has become an integral part of our daily lives. However, that doesn't mean that it's something that everyone innately understands or knows how to use - especially when it comes to using it for marketing, PR, or other business-related purposes. That's why many of today's colleges and universities are now offering "social media" classes as an option for their students.

Hmm. So big brother, or little sister, or anyone else, is watching you, tracking your location via your cell phone signal. This development may convince control freaks to allow cell phones in schools.

"Constraints drive innovation and force focus," according to 37Signals in their popular "Getting Real" book. If that's true, then Copyblogger's Twitter Writing Contest, announced a couple of weeks ago, should have had writers brimming with creativity. The task? Write a short story in 140 characters. Not less than 140 characters, exactly 140 characters. That's no easy task, but the contest still fielded over 300 entries. Today, Copyblogger revealed the winners.

This list of books about science has much to say about how patterns recur throughout all of human experience. Something all educators innately understand, I think.

How does an Open Strategy fit with K12 schools?

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oo many blogs, never enough time??- Six great tools from Read Write Web to help save links for later reading!

and so it begins