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Steve Madsen

Vodafone's 'Long Term' Hesitance - 0 views

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    LTE would make today's cable and DSL modems-as well as the "3G," or third-generation, mobile networks wireless carriers have spent billions to deploy-seem downright snail-like.
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    Wireless carriers have spent truck loads of money on 3G wireless. Long Term Evolution will probably cost that much again to implement
Steve Madsen

'Do Not Track List' requested of FTC - The INQUIRER - 0 views

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    This article shows privacy concerns about the implicit collection of data by tracking mouse movents / clicks / keyboard.
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    CONSUMER GROUPS asked the US Federal Trade Commission to establish a national "Do Not Track List" that would enable Internet wibblers to prohibit advertisers from building profiles of their online activities.
Vicki Davis

The Web2.0 Prophecy: An Adventure | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views

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    This is an excellent article that has been reposted. It includes a lot of the information that outlines WHAT web 2.0 is. This includes videos and many important hyperlinks. Excellent article for newcomers to web 2.0 to pick up on.
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    Excellent article outlining what is happening in Web 2.0 and education. This includes many important videos as well.
Steve Madsen

Cubans line up for mobile phones - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    Lines stretched for blocks outside phone stores Monday as ordinary Cubans were allowed to sign up for cellular phone service for the first time.
Steve Madsen

Tea time goes high tech - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    Technology can link a kettle to a mobile phone, so every time an elderly person boils water for their morning cup of tea a message is sent to a family member letting them know their relative is up and well. (Australia)
glen gatin

digital digs: Building Scholarly Networks - 0 views

  • We might like to think that information-sharing is intrinsic to academic work, especially academic work that is publicly funded. However we also place many restrictions on publishing, like peer review, and I imagine there are still academics who try to keep their work secret until it is ready for any number of semi-paranoid reasons. I'm not going to say we shouldn't do these things, but we need to recognize that the discipline works by controlling the production and distribution of disciplinary knowledge.
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    See Skirky Coasean floor- the cost of dissemintation of academic research has dropped to near zero. When institutions insist on exhorbitant journal access fees they doom themselves to irrelevance. Attention economy needs eyeballs and the eyeballs glaze over at the idea of paying $180.00 for a PDF report on online education in Canada, a publicly funded research project.(295 for the hard copy)
glen gatin

Education Matters: Insights on education, learning and training in Canada - 0 views

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    Uniformly the education industrial complex is not keeping up with the adoption of ICT in the gen pop. Still stuck in the bums-in-seats mentality. This is in part because education is a major economic engine in a community. All the people who run the plant are voters and taxpayers. The old structures persist, not because they are the best model of educational excellence but because they are the source of the best jobs in town. Deans wife works in student services, the presidents cousins husband works in maintainence etc.
Vicki Davis

YouTube - Please ban cell phone use while driving. - 0 views

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    Looking at the safety aspect of humans with machines is important.
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    Responsible use of electronic devices is going to become increasingly important because today cell phone is a distraction --- tomorrow it will be in car movies or gps devices. It is the behavior that is the problem and proper focus on real life has to be something we emphasize as we discuss the proper relationship of humans with "gadgets."
Steve Madsen

PC World - Business Center: Salesforce Announces Integration With Google Apps - 0 views

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    A wikinomics concept: an established company combining with Google Apps because of the collaborative aspects.
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    Salesforce has integrated Google's online productivity applications with its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) offerings.
Steve Madsen

Bollywood's Viral Videos - TIME - 0 views

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    Bollywood studios aim to make films directly available, via download, to the vast overseas market that contributes a fifth of the industry's revenues.
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    Wikinomics concept: Hollywood won't make films available for immediate download due to their protectiveness of content. For India's Bollywood, this could be their future?
glen gatin

Cognitive Edge - 0 views

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    followed the link through to the University of Chicago project on Wisdom. http://wisdomresearch.org/ I hope the Lord has mercy on my soul. I certainly won't insist on justice:>)
Steve Madsen

Tracking device on bins ensures residents chip in - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    His suspicions grew further when he noticed a small, flat, circular object hidden under the rim of his new bin. About the size of a 10-cent coin, it had the letters "TI-RFid" embossed on it.
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    RFid technology attached to garbage bins to collect data about home owners re-cycling efforts or lack of. (Australia)
glen gatin

Daily Kos: State of the Nation - 0 views

  • Bloggers are not competition to the traditional media -- though they do, hopefully, act as an occasional check on its excesses.  However, even if the Internet were entirely dedicated to the downfall of existing media, it would be only one popgun in a chorus of cannons.  A large part of the traditional media is dedicated to nothing less than making war on the rest.
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    Article on the Cult of the Professional response to Andrew Keen's Cult of the Amateur. I recently watched a web clip of a panel discussion that Keen did at Berkeley? (find link)
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    Cult of the Semi-pro?
glen gatin

Pioneering research shows 'Google Generation' is a myth - 0 views

  • are now becoming the norm for all age-groups
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    Digital immigrants might not take easy access quite so much for granted. If I am doing research and have to actually make a trip to the library, jump on my bike and go across town. I consider it a time drain. Although when I was living a rural community with no academic library, I longed for the easy access of just going across town. Now that there is Google Scholar and Google books I wonder why I have to log in to my institutions web site, and go through 6 different hoops to get to the data base and article of interest. It is getting better all the time though. My library is setting up Google Scholar to get direct access to some databases.
glen gatin

Online Predators and Their Victims - 0 views

  • The publicity about online"predators" who prey on naive children using trickery and violence is largely inaccurate.
  • adult offenders who meet, develop relationships with, and openly seduce underage teenagers
  • In the great majority of cases, victims are aware they are conversing online with adults. In the N-JOV Study, only 5% of offenders pretended to be teens when they met potential victims online. (112)
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  • Offenders rarely deceive victims about their sexual interests.
  • promises of love and romance
  • 99% of victims of Internet-initiated sex crimes in the N-JOV Study were 13 to 17 years old, and none were younger than 12. 48% were 13 or 14 years old. (115)
  • My (Liz B. Davis ) Summary of Key Points (All are quotes directly from the article): Online "Predators" and Their Victims. Myths, Realities, and Implications for Prevention and Treatment. by: Janis Wolak, David Finkelhor, and Kimberly J. Mitchell - University of New Hampshire and Michele L. Ybarra - Internet Solutions for Kids, Inc.
  • it was those 15-17 years of age who were most prone to take risks involving privacy and contact with unknown people. (115)
  • take place in isolation and secrecy, outside of oversight by peers, family  members, and others in the youth's face-to-face social networks (115)
  • Most of the online child molesters described in the N-JOV Study met their victims in chatrooms. In a 2006 study, about one third of youths who received online sexual solicitation had received them in chatrooms. (116)
  • Youth internet users with histories of offline sexual or physical abuse appear to be considerably more likely to receive online aggressive sexual solicitations. (117)
  • ..Although Internet safety advocates worry that posting personal information exposes youths to online molesters, we have not found empirical evidence that supports this concern. It is interactive behaviors, such as conversing online with unknown people about sex, that more clearly create risk. (117)
  • Online molesters do not appear to be stalking unsuspecting victims but rather continuing to seek youths who are susceptible to seduction. (117)
  • maintaining online blogs or journals, which are similar to social networking sites in that they often include considerable amounts of personal information and pictures, is not related to receiving aggressive sexual solicitation unless youths also interact online with unknown people. (117)
  • Boys constitute 25% of victims in Internet-initiated sex crimes, and virtually all of their offenders are male. (118
  • Some gay boys turn to the internet to find answers to questions about sexuality or meet potential romantic partners, and there they may encounter adults who exploit them. (118)
  • ..child molesters are, in reality, a diverse group that cannot be accurately characterized with one-dimensional labels. (118)
  • Online child molesters are generally not pedophiles. (118)Online child molesters are rarely violent. (119)
  • Child pornography production is also an aspect of Internet-initiated sex crimes. One in five online child molesters in the N-JOV Study took sexually suggestive or explicit photographs of victims or convinced victims to take such photographs of themselves or friends. (120)
  • Youths may be more willing to talk extensively and about more intimate matters with adults online than in face-to-face environments. (121
  • it may not be clear to many adolescents and adults that relationships between adults and underage adolescents are criminal. (122)
  • Simply urging parents and guardians to control, watch, or educate their children may not be effective in many situations. The adolescents who tend to be the victims of Internet-initiated sex crimes many not themselves be very receptive to the advice and supervision of parents. (122)
  • We recommend educating youths frankly about the dynamics of Internet-initiated and other nonforcible sex crimes. Youths need candid, direct discussions about seduction and how some adults deliberately evoke and then exploit the compelling feelings that sexual arousal can induce. (122)
  • The factors that make youths vulnerable to seduction by online molesters are complex and related to immaturity, inexperience, and the impulsiveness with which some youths respond to and explore normal sexual urges.
    • glen gatin
       
      Extended adolescence as much a contributing factor as inherent evil in online community?
    • Vicki Davis
       
      Not sure I understand the term "extended adolescence?"
    • glen gatin
       
      Twenty somethings still living with their parents.
    • glen gatin
       
      The whole concept of adult hood has shifted as a result. Thinking of the woman who was censured for putting her 9 yr old on the subway. Not sure how this applies to online predators.
    • glen gatin
       
      Comment box seems to work fine. It took me a while to find it too. What a neat tool! I can think of a 6 projects where this will come in very handy!! Thanks for the invite, Vicki.
    • Vicki Davis
       
      Interesting theory -- I'm not sure that this study was focusing on that age group -- we need to refer to the original study linked at the top of the page on that one.
  • images of adolescent sexuality abound in the media
    • glen gatin
       
      Much of what is published in the MSM about social networking and the internet in general is designed to emphasize the hazards. predators, identity theft, viruses etc. Usually hot button emotional issues. Same old deal, people love to be horrified. It sells alot of papers. In an attention economy it is getting harder to attract attention. A good "scary internet" story attracts attention and sells papers.
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    Information summarizing an article on online safety -- something important for education subgroups to cover.
Steve Madsen

Black Diamond - 0 views

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    This could be an example where Open Source software will challenge commercial producers of web collaboration software. Will it be a Linux? Skype? Apache Server? Audacity?
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    Dimdim is web collaboration software that is free and is open source. It has become available to everyone in the middle of April 2008
Steve Madsen

Visualizing Viruses - 0 views

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    MessageLabs commissioned Dragulescu to visualize the threats the company finds in the 3 million messages it scans daily.
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    Virus, spyware code patterns translated to visual representations. May be 3d computing, a type of mashup.
glen gatin

MiT5: Collaboration and Collective Intelligence - 0 views

    • glen gatin
       
      Two essential components of online social networks? Community and content. Where is your content stored in meatspace?
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    Scholz talking about the two things of value in a online social network. Community and content. What amalog BSP are impacted by the move to online life? KYD?
Vicki Davis

Modern Day Revolution - Horizon Project 2008 - 0 views

  • I agree that in the upcoming generation, my generation, we control our screen instead of watching it as our parents did.
  • Collaboration is not just a word in the dictionary that we have to recite to a chalkboard. It’s something that we have become accustomed to; it is as natural to us as breathing.
  • In the digital age, we do not have to strike in front of the White House. We effect change by telling the world the truth from the comfort of our own homes using the Internet with facebook, myspace, blogger, and so much more.
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    I'm reading some great posts from students about the keynote. This one in particular was very captivating. In the digital age, we do not have to strike in front of the White House. We effect change by telling the world the truth from the comfort of our own homes using the Internet with facebook, myspace, blogger, and so much more."
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