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My immediate thoughts are against setting standards for being a "social media maven." It seems that the abilities, standards, and etiquette contextualizing what determines a social media expert are changing so rapidly that it is difficult to set such specific questions rating expertise. I think these are good questions, but it seems the answers are either subjective or subject to change at a moments notice. For example, who says I can't upload a slick graphic containing contact info in my facebook timeline banner photo (that is, until facebook skewers this feature too)? Why is this a no-no? Unless the individual asking the question is actually referring to the content type allowable in this field .... in that case, it would be an image.

We talked about Nyan cat. It used to be quite the cred to report how long you could last looking at the "longest videos". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKzqP4-0Z6M

A response to Sherry Turkle piece posted by Tara (from the NYT)...

Sunday Review opinion piece from the NY Times that questions how much our use of media may or may not lead to "connecting" with others. Is technology keeping us from learning how to carry on a conversation? How to interact with human beings in-person? How much is one's self-curated (and self-edited) identity representative of the total package that is the self?

5/1/12 re:mapping Inforgraphics are big now- "Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized!"

the xkcd map we were discussion, navigating relationships and connections: http://xkcd.com/802/

Interesting talk about connectedness (now and in the past). Especially interesting around 25 minutes in when he talks about Seneca, Shakespeare, and Thoreau and how connectedness played into their times despite being before all the communication technology we usually think of these days. I'm thinking about this in relation to the Sherry Turkle article and "an imaginary past".

Poke through the list of columns by Virginia and peruse a few that align with our general unit theme of "social" stuff & media...