A book I ran across about information overload and how we can take control of the media that is overloading us and use it to our benefit (the Foreword is written by Clay Shirky).
In this episode of Grey's Anatomy, the surgeons use twitter to update other surgeons across the country about their work. In return, other surgeons send back feedback. As a result, a life saving surgery is performed and a patient lives. All of this due to this social media!
From our class discussion today, maybe this is something you'd play with - not because it's particularly useful, but because it's just plain fun to mess around with.
This article is referenced in our current book about what the internet is doing to our thinking. It is written by Nicholas Carr who is also the author of our next book, The Shallows. It sounds like it will be a very interesting book.
Yet another example of deigital media and social media revolutionizing the way groups assemble, organize, sustain themselves and activate themselves. It's kind of an old story that keeps being retold, as protestors around the world continue to use social media to propel their causes, but it's relevant and apparently news worth enough to continue to make today's headlines...
What a man did with the use of a library. (From waaay back at the beginning of the semester when talking about lost technologies and libraries from "Reinventing Knowledge."