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Evan Williams, CEO of twitter, discusses how users influenced the evolution of twitter.

An interesting article on educating parents, teachers, and kids on digital citizenship and safety - and integrating better digital practices and training in schools.

an amusing infographic comparing the benefits of search media versus social media

This article explains how social networking is changing our "interpersonal psychology" and what we can do so that it doesn't get the best of us.

I had to share this because it's just too funny but also seems to make an interesting critique on the problems with fact checking and collaborative and anonymous contributions to an encyclopedia. It also seems to make a commentary on how we establish relevancy by adding items (including ourselves) to these kinds of encyclopedias.

This is the latest on the Google/Viacom copyright issue over videos on youtube.

Another article on the Wikidata development.

In our reading this week, there is an emphasis on how the Electronic Literature Organization is working to preserve online narratives that somehow become out of date. Here is a huge reason why that is so important. As we move toward a dependence on mobile technology, Flash is officially out.

Very interesting article about publishing houses' efforts to keep up with the e-book world. Ties in nicely to some points Hayles made in "Print is flat; code is deep." 

Oh snap... This could be interesting.

Jessica Murphy writes: "Eolas's "interactive web" patent being ruled as invalid and Berners-Lee jumping for joy about the ruling."

Really fascinating take on McLuhan and many of the other writers we've been discussing. It also pertains to my interest in both sustainability and digital media.

Interesting in terms of McLuhan and discussions last class.

Useful if you find yourself using a lot of special characters on your website. For example, in reading responses to the ELO works, it can be useful for some authors' names).

Here is the other website that I look back to frequently. I don't want to spam the message board with websites that are largely just "inspiration" sites, but if any of you are interested in others, I have a bunch and am always looking to trade.

Sustainability factors listed in preparation for the Library of Congress Collections.

A humorous breakdown of the uses of social media.

Going back to an older discussion, I thought some might be interested in this article. It puts forward ideas for how copyright issues could be addressed. The website in full might also be interesting to some.

This article touches on a lot of the topics that keep surfacing in our classroom discussions about narcissism and how we use social media to communicate with others and share our own identities. It also expresses some of the concerns that I am often torn about; how much privacy can we have if we are going to use this technology, and why aren't we more aware of it.

Interesting article on the use of social media to inform residents about Mexico's cartel violence.