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Xiaotong Liu

A comparison of the top media databases - 0 views

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    For all the journalists, there are some top media databases for you can choose.
Alex Gregg

Peering into the future of Media - 0 views

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    Very interesting read on what the future could look like for the way in which we get information and do every day tasks.
Jimin Kwon

The World of Social Media 2013 - 2 views

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    It can be a little bit of off-topic but this is a very interesting video that my communication professor showed class before. The video basically tells you how much the internet and the social media affect our lives these days. Even though we have already known that the internet is hugely influential, you'll probably be surprised while you watch this video.
Amanda French

Namechk: Check for Usernames Across the Web http://namechk.com/ - 2 views

Could be useful, thanks! I've given you credit. Natalie, can you please delete this Topic and post the link as a Bookmark? It'll keep the group neater.

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Talia Wujtewicz

Tumblr Ettiquette - 0 views

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    Whether we realize it or not, all social media websites have a certain (usually unwritten) etiquette. This article lists some basic etiquette when using Tumblr.
cmarion2

Some Thoughts on the Whole "Artists' Books in the Digital Age" Thing | The Binding Agent - 0 views

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    This article proposes that digital technologies actually AID in keeping the book a widely spread and accessible media, rather than hurting its future.
Amanda French

File:Arpanet 1974.svg - Wikimedia Commons - 1 views

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    I've added a new avatar for our course Diigo group. It's based on a 1974 map of ARPAnet, the first "network of networks," and thus the precursor of today's Internet. I got it from Wikimedia Commons, which is a great source for all kinds of media that you're allowed to reproduce on the Internet.
Gordon Hall

A web page for all of your favorite social media - 0 views

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    This web site, Rebel Mouse, allows you to post things from all the social media you like to use on one homepage that you can create and edit.
Gordon Hall

Directory vs. Folder - 1 views

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    This link gives information on the difference between a directory and a folder. The reason I found this link so useful was because it outlines the difference between the two for Mac and PC users.
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    Congratulations, Gordon, on being the very first to post! :) I will say I'm not very impressed with the link, though -- it's a bit fuzzy on whether there is or is not a difference between a directory and a folder, except in a technical sense on Windows Vista. (I'd argue that in general there isn't, though I grant you there are special cases.) And you can't tell who wrote that piece, and it comes from the support database of a particular software company rather than from a site that's dedicated to explanations / teaching / learning / education. At least Wikipedia is deliberately trying to educate people, and it's better on this issue, I'd say, and provides a clearer argument that a directory is something structural in an OS whereas a folder is a visual "metaphor" for a collection of files, which may or may not be an actual directory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_(computing)#Folder_metaphor
Tiana Robles

You can now view (almost) every tweet ever - 1 views

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    This is an article about a new system used to organize and trace tweets. I thought it was a good reflection of the permanence of things we put online.
James Hemdal

Top 10 YouTube URL Tricks - 0 views

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    This website has some more advanced URL tricks to make your YouTube experience better. Most of these tips are for embedding videos, but there are tips for viewing as well.
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    Anything that has the words "tips" or "tricks" in it, I like, even when it's not related to what we've been discussing lately. :)
Gordon Hall

Top 10 Most Usable Content Management Systems - 1 views

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    In addition to the content management systems we talked about today like wordpress, there are plenty of other great content management systems out there for people to use.
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    Although that article was written way back in 2009, I'd say it's still pretty accurate. All the CMSes I know of are in that list, plus some I hadn't heard of.
Mahrokh Akhavan

The Search Engine That Has Indexed All Tweets in History -- Now a Possible Acquisition ... - 0 views

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    I came across this as I was looking for history of search engines and its pretty crazy that the site Topsy has been able to save every single tweet since twitter launched! that's 300 billion tweets!!! and you can search them all as it is open to the public. I hadn't heard about Topsy but it seems like they are gaining a good reputation and going against big search engines like Yahoo and Bing.
Amanda French

Wikipedia Ponders Its Gender-Skewed Contributions - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    A 2011 article about the "gender gap" in Wikipedia editing, which still persists today, although Wikipedia has undertaken to address it.
mgotcher

Where do people get their news? - 0 views

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    Here's a recent article published in April about where people get their news.
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    That's useful, Milan, thanks. Note, though that it's not super-clear what "get" means in this context -- I'm sure a lot of people, like me, get their news from several of these sources. I get news from radio, the Web (including newspaper websites and Google News), and social media, and I'm not sure which of those sources is primary.
Alex Gregg

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-57613429-2/focal-shift-press-photogs-riled-by-white... - 0 views

The Obama administration seems to be upsetting photographers and compares their restrictions to that of the Soviet Union.

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Mahrokh Akhavan

Steal This Research Paper! (You Already Paid for It.) - 0 views

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    The idea of open access to scholarly journals seems to be a big debate and this article talks about how publishers make millions of dollars off of research and peer reviews that are done for free. It also talks about Aaron Swartz who led the movement for allowing access to journals by basically "stealing" them and sharing them.
Gordon Hall

Historical Perspective Journal - 0 views

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    This Journal, known as Perspectives on History, runs through the American Historical Association. It gives great perspective on various aspects of history through how its being used in teaching, the media, and through the archives. For any history majors out there, I strongly recommend checking out this journal.
Adam Munera

Word Clouds for WordPress - 0 views

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    I thought I would post this site where you can make word clouds for our final project, if your interesting in adding some media to it!
Benjamin Rizo

Jonah Peretti: Unknown Internet Hero - 0 views

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    I figured an appropriate way to end the semester was to have a blog post about my blog post :)
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