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Interesting TED talk about the limits of an open web due to filtering tools.

"With web 2.0, we've embarced the idea that people are going to share pictures of their cats, and now we build sophisticated tools to make that easier to do. as a result, we're creating a wealth of tech that's extremely helpful for activists. There are twin revolutions going on - the ease of creating content and the ease of sharing it with local and global audiences."

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Who am I? How does our development of online identities affect our development of offline identities?

I did a Tumblr post around this video a few weeks ago, and I found it very thought provoking. This video could easily be related to Michael Welsh's video about technology in schools.

I found that this video could be directly related back to the concept of using your "exterior brain" Crowd-sourcing is the act of giving a task to an outside group of people...such as Wikipedia. It thinks for you!

Sarah, you might find this interesting as well: http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/how-crowdsource-grading

This talks about possible negative emotional effects of Facebook and those with social skills that aren't as up to par as the average person.

This essay writed by Danah Boyd at the University of California-Berkeley talks about the role of the internet and social sites in teens life, identity, friendships,etc.

This is a survey on surveymonkey.com. I have posted the link below. I would ask if everyone would kindly take it as it is important to my research with the results. Thank you.

Youtube video looking at identity on the internet

Today's snapshot of "Social Networking in Education:"...Wikipedia page on this wher you can view videos, articles, conversations/blogs and a couple presentations on the subject.

This source shows both sides of the internet, examining how the benefits of the internet can change depending on what you use it for.

User Generated Content (UGC) is re-shaping the way people watch video and TV, with millions of video producers and consumers. In particular, UGC sites are creating new viewing patterns and social interactions, empowering users to be more creative, and developing new business opportunities. To better understand the impact of UGC systems, we have analyzed YouTube, the world's largest UGC VoD system. Based on a large amount of data collected, we provide an in-depth study of YouTube and other similar UGC systems. In particular, we study the popularity life-cycle of videos, the intrinsic statistical properties of requests and their relationship with video age, and the level of content aliasing or of illegal content in the system.