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dthongvanh

The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook - 0 views

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    A very interesting logarithmic chart demonstrating how privacy and data availability on Facebook have changed since 2005.
Zach Thompson

New times demand new journalism - 0 views

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    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.
Zach Thompson

Help: Wiki markup - 0 views

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    A really useful guide to editing a Wiki page. Have it open when you make your edits to the Wiki for your class presentation, and use it. It's great.
Zach Thompson

10 alternatives to sending a press release | Articles - 0 views

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    An interesting call to use alternatives to press releases, when publishing's so easy to do, these days...
Zach Thompson

Crossing a line? - 0 views

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    An article I read last week that made me think of the class. Particularly interesting was the Editor's defense: " 'Americans don't read our paper because they can't read Spanish. They don't read our news, our editorials and the opinion of the community. But if they see a picture, they'll get it,' he said."
Michea Boyd

A timeline of China's censorship - 0 views

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    Here is a little update on China's censorship after social media became a more common tool for getting information out as Shirky talks about in the last part of the book.
Michea Boyd

Here Comes Everybody Blog - 0 views

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    Clay Shirkys blog on the book. There are some very interesting posts, I'd take a look at the one titled "Gin, Television, and Social Surplus".
Sarah Hannasch

White Bicycle Program Failure - 1 views

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    As Clay Shirky states: "human nature has turned out to be fairly context sensitive...enough people's behavior becomes antisocial enoughto wreck things for everyone." Programs like this one will not work unless people are motivated to make it succeed.
Sarah Hannasch

Jericho Fans Send Over Nine Tons of Nuts to CBS - 0 views

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    Due to the ease of online group unification, die-hard Jericho fans were able to get their show back!
Jody Thompson

Flash mob gone wrong! - 1 views

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    Tom Scott explains (in under five minutes) what happens when a flash mob goes wrong. Really interesting video!
David Niedergeses

Clay Shirky talks on NPR about Egypt - 0 views

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    Take a look at this article. We'll listen to the spot during class.
Michea Boyd

Wikipedia Mess-ups - 1 views

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    Our book talked a lot about Wikipedia and the process of errors encouraging more people to edit. I thought it was kind of funny to see the biggest mess ups Wikipedia has had.
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    This is also an example of what we were talking about yesterday. We can write the biography of anyone in an online encyclopedia where most people go for references..talk about power.
Jody Thompson

Leave the libraries alone. - 0 views

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    In Britain, a new austerity budget has threatened massive library closures across the country, with some communities in danger of ending up with no public library at all. Philip Pullman's local chief counsellor accused authors of defending libraries because they like the royalties they earn from the books libraries buy. In response, Pullman has given this stirring speech about the value of libraries to their communities and to civilization
stephieboo

Think about how social media has changed your life! - 0 views

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    An article that sums up ways that social media has changed humanity.
Sarah Hannasch

Tale of a Lost Cellphone, and Untold Static - 0 views

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    New York Times article about Evan Guttman.
Sarah Hannasch

Socialtext Made Group-Forming Ridiculously Easy - 0 views

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    Discusses the ease of group forming and quotes Clay Shirky!
Stellena Nelson

Kairos 14.1: Hanson, Interview of Scott McCloud - Home - 0 views

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    An interview with Scott McCloud, who will be lecturing at the MU Great Hall Thursday, January 27, at 8pm. McCloud is a cartoonist and theorist. His work is important to the rhetoric of technology because he deals with new ways to present information that are better suited to the computer screen.
Jody Thompson

Truth, Proclamation and Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age - 0 views

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    The Pope talks about how Christianity and new ways of communicating come together in the "Digital Age" we now live in.
Diana Merritt

Wiki: A technology for conversational knowledge management and group collaboration - 1 views

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    Really interesting article about the idea of conversational knowledge and wikis as information systems managing that knowledge.
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