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Wolfe's three laws of the brave new Web 2.0 world are: Mobile is the new desktop, the home page is dead, and social networks like Facebook and MySpace presage the media company of the future.

No one, and I can't stress this enough, gives a shit about your brand. They care about what user experience you deliver to them. This obtains whether you're in the physical world selling a product, or online serving up content.

The new go-to destination of users won't be home pages but instead will be Web apps. That is, users will access content -- news, blogs, video -- and interact with your (their) communities via apps, hopefully apps that you develop and sell ads around.

Tim O'Reilly's concept of "web 2.0" was first promoted at a 2004 conference of key industry leaders and later spread via his "What is Web 2.0" essay.

There is an urgent need for serious reflection on the core models of cultural production, distribution, ownership, and participation underlying "web 2.0."

those of us who have long advocated for a more "participatory culture" need to better define our ideals and identify and confront those forces that threaten the achievement of those ideals

fter the panel, Gary sent us a link to KSU Anthropology Professor Michael Wesch's fantastic video, which beautifully demonstrates the evolution of text, the Web, and - dare I be so hyperbolic - human communications. This video, Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us, makes the case for technology evolution better than our two hours' of discourse.

Second International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'09) CALL FOR PAPERSSecond International Workshopon Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'09)in conjunction with the8th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2009),Aachen, Germany, August 19-21, 2009.

Social Network Analysis Conferences in 2009 2009 seems to be a great year for social network analysis and computer science. Here is a list of conferences I am aware of.

The Cairo News Company, which provided satellite services and equipment for Al Jazeera, the BBC and CNN, was raided by police after it transmitted footage of the food riots.

But new media applications were changing the rules. This was demonstrated by the arrest of a journalism student from Berkeley named James Karl Buck, who was detained along with his Egyptian interpreter as he photographed a street protest. Buck used the Twitter application on his cell phone to send a snapshot of himself and the text message “arrested” to a list serve of his contacts. His friends used the message to prompt intervention from Berkeley and the U.S. consulate. Buck was soon able to Twitter the word “free,” and mounted an online campaign to release his interpreter.

police finally located him and tortured him for his Facebook password and names of the other group members (the vast majority of which he didn’t know).

From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: Harnessing and Leveraging New Media for Learning Professor Michael Wesch, Kansas State University, USA. Michael Wesch forklarer hvordan det er mulig å lage en god kultur for læring vha. Web 2.0-verktøy og hvordan dette kan gjøres i harmoni med en læringsplattform.Foredraget holdes på engelsk.