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On Twitter, anyone may follow anyone, but there is very little expectation of reciprocity. By carefully curating the people you follow, Twitter becomes an always-on data stream from really bright people in their respective fields, whose tweets are often full of links to incredibly vital, timely information.

On Twitter, anyone may follow anyone, but there is very little expectation of reciprocity. By carefully curating the people you follow, Twitter becomes an always-on data stream from really bright people in their respective fields, whose tweets are often full of links to incredibly vital, timely information.

On Twitter, anyone may follow anyone, but there is very little expectation of reciprocity. By carefully curating the people you follow, Twitter becomes an always-on data stream from really bright people in their respective fields, whose tweets are often full of links to incredibly vital, timely information.

Privacy is not about control over data nor is it a property of data.  It's about a collective understanding of a social situation's boundaries and knowing how to operate within them.  In other words, it’s about having control over a situation. It's about understanding the audience and knowing how far information will flow.  It’s about trusting the people, the situating, and the context.  People seek privacy so that they can make themselves vulnerable in order to gain something: personal support, knowledge, friendship, etc.

1) Security Through Obscurity Is a Reasonable Strategy 2) Not All Publicly Accessible Data is Meant to be Publicized 3) People Who Share PII Aren’t Rejecting Privacy 4) Aggregating and Distributing Data Out of Context is a Privacy Violation 5) Privacy is Not Access Control

Social norms can and are changing, but that doesn't mean that privacy has been thrown out the door. People care deeply about privacy, care deeply about maintaining context.  But they also care about publicity, or the right to walk out in public and be seen. 

Watch Full Program 01 hr 12 min 07 sec Add to Profile 01. Introduction 04 min 40 sec Add to Profile 02. Fear of Search Results Exposed 07 min 47 sec Add to Profile 03. Privacy in Relation to Culture and Preferences 04 min 12 sec Add to Profile 04. Geo Targeting 06 min 15 sec Add to Profile 05. Opting Out 04 min 18 sec Add to Profile 06. Consent and Self-Regulation 05 min 11 sec Add to Profile 07. Google's Approach to Self-Regulation 05 min 20 sec Add to Profile 08. Technological Barriers to Regulation 08 min 29 sec Add to Profile 09. Ad Preferences / Transparency 04 min 05 sec Add to Profile 10. Difficulty of Multiple Platforms 06 min 39 sec Add to Profile 11. Solutions: Limitations of Data Retention 10 min 57 sec Add to Profile 12. <a clas

On the eve of presidential elections in Ukraine 2010, numerous profiles of presidential candidates have been set up on the popular network sites Livejournal, Twitter, YouTube, and Vkontakte, either by the candidate’s political consultants or by the candidates themselves. In this article, I explore the content of politicians’ social media profiles and their web groups, and I argue that Ukrainian presidential contenders have not yet been able to meet the challenges of social media cyberspace. In effect, their web presence serves primarily the goal of self-promotion, and is rarely used for communication across a wider network, which is a core principle of social media philosophy. By looking into the application of Web 2.0 tools in the Ukrainian election run-off, I attempt to contribute to the contemporary debate on the political and social potential of Web 2.0 and give a new critical impetus for further research in this field.

That tool is abductive reasoning

The vast majority of students are exposed to formal logic only by inference and then only to the two dominant forms of logic — deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning.

Formal logic isn’t systematically taught in our North American educational system, except to students of philosophy or the history of science.

You can think of building your own Personal Learning Network as an attempt to create this “learning loop” for yourself using the tools at your disposal. Instead of a bunch of teachers selecting challenging information for you, the Internet gives you access to a world of bloggers, tweeters, speakers, photographers, videographers, and colleagues who will teach you anything you want for nothing more than the price of your time and attention. All they ask of you is to&nbsp;think about it, question it, master the skills, and respond in a thoughtful way. You can participate in this conversation by writing your own blog, tweeting, organizing sources, speaking, and teaching others in the way that works best for you.

What if a different source of value is becoming more powerful? We believe there's good reason to think that value is shifting from knowledge stocks to knowledge flows. Put more simply, we believe that flows trump stocks.

To succeed now, we have to continually refresh our stocks of knowledge by participating in relevant flows of new knowledge. But there are two challenges. First, knowledge doesn't flow very easily, especially if it is tacit rather than explicit knowledge.

To keep it simple, think of tacit knowledge as the "know how" rather than the "know what."

In the report, Forrester documents the evolution and direction of the Social Web in several distinct stages:

1. The era of social relations

2. The era of social functionality

On paper, 3D Dot Game Heroes appears to be a slavish, perhaps overly worshipful retro tribute. Players follow the same archetypal trajectory as in Zelda, venturing from a quaint village at the behest of a king to save the land from a dark villain. Dungeons are crawled, keys are turned, weapons are upgraded and legendary magical items are gathered.

The game kicks off with a royal decree. The king of Dotnia, a feudal land straight out of an old NES game, isn’t happy with the bland, 2-D realm he reigns over. So, with a snap of his fingers, he issues the order and presto — everything he surveys expands into the third dimension.

Players interact with the game world exactly as they’d expect to. A mash of the button extends a sword forward. Only in 3D Dot Game Heroes, the sword that players wield is massive — when fully powered up, the flash of steel can extend from one end of the level to the other.

The scope of this literature review is to map out what is currently understood about the intersections of youth, reputation, and privacy online, focusing on youth attitudes and practices. We summarize both key empirical studies from quantitative and qualitative perspectives and the legal issues involved in regulating privacy and reputation. This project includes studies of children, teenagers, and younger college students. For the purposes of this document, we use “teenagers” or “adolescents” to refer to young people ages 13-19; children are considered to be 0-12 years old. However, due to a lack of large-scale empirical research on this topic, and the prevalence of empirical studies on college students, we selectively included studies that discussed age or included age as a variable. Due to language issues, the majority of this literature covers the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Canada.

I was fortunate enough to get a chance to sit down with John Hagel at last week’s Web 2.0 Summit and discuss a few big-ticket emerging trends: (1) the rise of the “real time” web, (2) the move from the information web (the web of documents) to the social web (the web of people) and (3) the continued promise of mobile devices.

Data Visualization is a method of presenting information in a graphical form. Good data visualization should appear as if it is a work of art. This intrigues the viewer and draws them in so that they can further investigate the data and info that the graphic represents. In this post there are 15 stunning examples of Data Visualization that are true works of art.