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Bonnie Thibodeau

WristQue wearable sensor connects you digital world | Cutting Edge - CNET News - 0 views

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    ...and on that note, technology and people are getting even cozier these days. I used to think it was impressive how quickly cell phones got smaller and smarter and how quickly internet went wireless and made sharing easier. Now, inventions like this wrist control system and the idea of "smart buildings" seems to shadow earlier technology, and make us wonder if there is anything we won't try to give a technology interface-lift to.
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

Cybersecurity bill passes, Obama threatens veto - 1 views

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    This is the latest update on The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act
dibyadyuti roy

Facebook IPO - 0 views

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    Facebook is coming out with an IPO within the next few weeks. With all the talk of Web 2.0 being the last bastion of innovation, this offers food for thought on why social networking sites are choosing to list themselves on the share market.
Eric Wardell

5 Ways Facebook Changed Dating (For the Worse) - 0 views

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    I know I talked a little in class about how facebook has had an affect on dating and people's perceptions of flirtation, so I thought I'd share this short article that discusses some of the potentially negative affects of dating through facebook. I'm not propagating that idea (my finance and I just looked through our very first facebook messages yesterday and it was heart warming) but it's interesting to see how others view the potential friendships and heartbreaks of this particular digital social sphere.
Eric Wardell

Get Started with My IGN - Online Gamer Community - IGN - 0 views

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    This is the social networking homepage of a online gaming website, IGN. I wanted to share this because it seems to overtly combine the gaming and social elements of social media. It also, similar to the AXE site, allows users to follow certain products and claim an identity based on what products the user owns in comparison to other members of the community. Within the site itself members have some level of gaining badges and competing by listing and comparing their games and interacting with each other. Also, on the level of competition, there are prizes available for different interactions on this site which further invokes the sense of gaming and competition.
Eric Wardell

Professor Wikipedia - YouTube - 0 views

shared by Eric Wardell on 04 Apr 12 - Cached
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    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.
Jillian Swisher

The Secret To Pinterest's Success: We're Sick Of Each Other - 0 views

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    Since Mikenna bookmarked a New York Times article about Pinterest, I've been thinking about what makes that site different (and, in my opinion, more successful) than other social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. According to this Huffington Post article, "What sets Pinterest apart and makes it so appealing is its focus on who we want to be -- not on what we're doing, where we've gone, how important we are or how beloved. While much of the content shared on existing social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare screams, 'Look at me,' Pinterest posts urge, 'Look at this.'" While I agree with that idea to some extent, I wonder if we can ever engage in social media/social networking without an air of "look at me." This made me think of Goldsmith's idea of Internet identity: "On the Internet, these tendencies move in different directions, with identity running the gamut from authenticity to total fabrication" (84). So, maybe Pinterest allows its users to create a more authentic identity for themselves while Facebook and Twitter promote more fabricated identities.
Eric Wardell

AXE's Channel - YouTube - 1 views

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    This probably seems ridiculous that I'm sharing this, but this directly relates to a paper I wrote last semester about the rhetoric employed by AXE and now I think they're making a move that applies to this class. Here we have some combination of McLuhan's idea of media being an extension of man and we see elements of IF as people actively contribute the making of a graphic novel and then are characterized by the creators for their input all the while fusing their digital selves to some sort of global and digital AXE alliance. Imagine how difficult it would be to by a different product once you become part of their story and your digital self participates (to channel the ideas of Barry Brummett) in this particular reality.
Rachel Henderson

An Insider Shares Mark Zuckerberg's 6 Secrets for Success - DailyFinance - 0 views

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    Fast track to being a billionaire. (And a Facebook timeline.)
Jessica Murphy

Microsoft Takes on Dropbox with Major SkyDrive Update - 1 views

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    Microsoft combined the functions of two of their cloud storage services--SkyDrive (storage) and Mesh (file synchronization and remote access)--to create what they consider a superior alternative to Dropbox, Apple's iCloud, and Google's apps storage.
Mikenna Pierotti

Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook - 0 views

  • The question soon came up: What do we do about his Facebook profile? We had never really thought about this before in such a personal way. Obviously, we wanted to be able to model people's relationships on Facebook, but how do you deal with an interaction with someone who is no longer able to log on? When someone leaves us, they don't leave our memories or our social network. To reflect that reality, we created the idea of "memorialized" profiles as a place where people can save and share their memories of those who've passed.We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it's important when someone passes away that their friends or family contact Facebook to request that a profile be memorialized. For instance, just last week, we introduced new types of Suggestions that appear on the right-hand side of the home page and remind people to take actions with friends who need help on Facebook. By memorializing the account of someone who has passed away, people will no longer see that person appear in their Suggestions.
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    From facebook itself on the idea of memorializing.
Ben Bishop

30+ Awesome Free and Open Source Audio Applications List - 3 views

  • Free and Open Source Audio Applications List
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    A list of the heavy open-source hitters for audio playback and editing.
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    I thought I just commented on this but maybe I commented on the wrong thing because I don't see my original comment! I'm definitely new to Diigo. Ben, this post made me wonder...are you familiar with SoundCloud, and if so, do you know of any free online software like it that take mp3 files and convert them to HTML code that can be embedded into a webpage?
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    Sound cloud looks really interesting, but they host all of the content and you just send out links to share it. In order to play content on your page, you need a mess of java script commands and I have no idea how to link that to your content... Guess that's why all the bands pay big bucks to have someone build their site for them.
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    Alright. Thanks, Ben.
Benjamin Myers

The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies - 0 views

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    "Adopted by the NCTE Executive Committee, February 15, 2008 Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies."
Eric Wardell

Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past - 0 views

  • possessive individualism
  • A historical work without owners and with multiple, anonymous authors is thus almost unimaginable in our professional culture
  • freedom
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  • “avoid bias.”
  • Are Wikipedians good historians? As in the old tale of the blind men and the elephant, your assessment of Wikipedia as history depends a great deal on what part you touch. It also depends, as we shall see, on how you define “history.”
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      A parable often used to describe the different interpretations of religion.
  • You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided … you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License.”
  • Wikipedia as History
  • online historical writing
  • Part of the problem is that such broad synthetic writing is not easily done collaboratively.
  • Yet what is most impressive is that Wikipedia has found unpaid volunteers to write surprisingly detailed and reliable portraits of relatively obscure historical figures—for example, 900 words on the Union general Romeyn B. Ayres.
  • whatever-centric,” they acknowledge in one of their many self-critical commentaries.
  • Wikipedia can act as a megaphone, amplifying the (sometimes incorrect) conventional wisdom.
  • great democratic triumph of Wikipedia—its demonstration that people are eager for free and accessible information resources.
  • Even Jimmy Wales, who has been more tolerant of “difficult people” than Sanger, complained about “an unfortunate tendency of disrespect for history as a professional discipline.”
  • Wikipedia's view of history is not only more anecdotal and colorful than professional history, it is also—again like much popular history—more factualist.
  • the problem of Wikipedian history is not that it disregards the facts but that it elevates them above everything else and spends too much time and energy (in the manner of many collectors) on organizing those facts into categories and lists.
  • also affect how scholarly work is produced, shared, and debated
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    This is an article that discusses the views of professional historians regarding wikipedia. I think it makes a number of interesting claims both regarding the management or historical data and wikipedia's role in promoting a particular historical paradigm.
Christine Schussler

The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality - 0 views

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    This is an interesting article about how "the digital humanities is really an insurgent humanities," and how this is a revolution of sharing ideas that, "affirms the value of the open, the infinite, the expansive [and] the democratization of culture and scholarship.""
Sandy Baldwin

The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine) - 0 views

  • higher cribbing
  • worth
  • se for perpetual copyright is a denial of the essential gift-aspect of the creative act.
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    Highly influential article about the essentially plagiaristic nature of all culture production, an article that itself is composed entirely of "borrowed texts." An excellent short and direct argument for uncreative writing.
Jessica Murphy

SOPA and PIPA: Threatening Innovation and Economic Growth - 1 views

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    Red Hat, the world's largest, most successful open source software company and one I'd like to work for in the very near future, submitted this blog post last month about SOPA and PIPA. It explains how such bills could devastate online collaboration, innovation, and the sharing of ideas and technology.
Rachel Henderson

The Daily Tar Heel :: Students living in a paperless world - 0 views

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  • paper products make up the largest share of solid waste in the United States. This country is also the largest paper consumer in the world, with one person going through an average of 663 pounds each year.
  • the past several years have seen such improvements in electronic readers and other eco-friendly technologies that a paperless world is now possible
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  • some publications have shifted toward online-only content
  • It’s now possible to purchase and read many required textbooks online.
  • the course pack, should simply be banned
  • In cases in which copyright issues arise, course packs should be made available for purchase as e-books.
  • reduce the amount of money allocated to students for printing
  • encourage professors to require that homework be submitted online
  • The money formerly used for paper could be transferred to something more environmentally friendly, like purchasing eReaders that can be checked out in the library.
  • the main objection to eReaders – that the energy required to make and use one exceeds the carbon impact of making a book – is largely invalid: The carbon emitted in the life cycle of an Amazon Kindle is fully offset after one year of us
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    Argument (with some decent solutions/suggestions) for making the transition from paper to electronic publications.
Bonnie Thibodeau

New Ways To Think About Online Privacy : All Tech Considered : NPR - 0 views

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    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.
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