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Adam Bohannon

apophenia: Pew on teen social media practices (with interesting bits on class) - 0 views

  • I wasn't surprised by most of their findings, but one of them did make me raise my eyebrows: Teens from lower-income are more likely to blog. Because of how Pew collects data, they cannot answer the question "why?" when they find such correlations, but I figured that my qualitative data might provide some insight and so I went back through my data. When asked about blogging, most of my MySpace-dominant users would immediately talk about the blogs that they kept on MySpace while my Facebook-dominant teens would talk about how Xanga was "so middle school" and that "everyone stopped" because "it just felt really weird writing about my day to people that I didn't even care about." And then it clicked. As I pointed out last summer and Eszter saw in her survey, the MySpace/Facebook split is correlated with socio-economic status. Because MySpace supports blogging and Facebook does not and because many of the teens who were once on Xanga are now using one of the SNSs, it makes sense that teens from lower-income households are more likely to blog now. They are blogging on MySpace. Now, that outta be interesting when these kids hit college where blogging is used as an educational tool.
Kevin Champion

TechBytes Series - Kansas State University - 0 views

  • Sept. 27: What's in a Blog? (Kevin Champion) If such key phrases as "web 2.0" or the "democritization of the internet" are appropriate for our internet lexicon circa 2007, then blogging must be a part of the conversation that got us here. This talk explores the concept of the blog in real examples, from creating a blog, to basic blogging, to expanding the definition of what a blog is. From community portal, to dynamic database, to collaborative organizer, along the way we will find out that a blog is not just a "web log" anymore.
  • Oct. 4: Social Bookmarking (Adam Bohannon) Social bookmarking is used to collect and organize on-line research materials, allows groups to collectively gather Internet information, and is an easy way to keep and access your bookmarks on any Internet-connected computer. This presentation will show you the conveniences, benefits, features, and even how to create a social bookmark using tools such as Diigo, del.icio.us, and Digg.
Kevin Champion

Shelfari - Welcome to Shelfari! Read, Share, Explore! - 0 views

  • Shelfari empowers you to show off the books you are passionate about. Build your shelf in Shelfari and then embed your shelf in your blog, website, or social networking site of choice.
    • Kevin Champion
       
      This is how I put a bookshelf in my academic blog.
    • Kevin Champion
       
      This is how I put a bookshelf in my academic blog.
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    This is a really cool bookshelf service.  It has a lot of ajax and a lot of social networking features.  It is entirely based visually around bookcovers.  You can create a widget to put in your website or blog that show your virtual book covers on your virtual bookshelf.  It is really nice looking.  I am interested to hear from Librarything users how they think it compares.
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    I created a group called "quorum" in Shelfari. I think it would be interesting for a group of people to start using Diigo, this Shelfari thing (if people like it) and other really cool services and exploit them for all they can do. Right now it seems to me that very few services are actually used for what they can do. Very fragmented...
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    You can check out the little widget from shelfari that you can put into your blog or website. It shows my actual bookshelf, virtual book covers on a virtual bookshelf. Pretty neat if you ask me. I like the idea of moving away from straight text as I tend to get texted out on the internet. Scroll down towards the bottom, after the blog posts, where I list all the books I´ve recently read. http://taylorandmore.blogspot.com/ Oh, and here´s my "shelf" on Shelfari, if you´re interested in checking out what it looks like before you sign up. http://www.shelfari.com/bananahandsome/shelf
Kevin Champion

Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Four reasons you should remove yourself from Face... - 0 views

  • According to recent reports, there have been significant privacy concerns at the Facebook HQ. It seems that Facebook employees get a great perk – spying on whomever they want. It seems that an employee can learn a lot about you, without you ever knowing it. Not only that, but they can see information on whose profile you’ve been looking at. Do you really want that information tracked?
  • Every time you sign up to play Texas Hold’em or hit your friends with rotten pumpkins (if someone makes this app), you’re giving away all of you personal information to these application providers. How often do you when you play games on yahoo, or MSN first give away all of your information? There are even more applications that exist solely to extract your personal data, and to be used for whatever they want.
  • Now, although not a surprise, the latest deal with Microsoft may make the internet a smaller place. Next time you’re searching on the internet and you find yourself being served advertisements for beer when you’re on a random florist website, it may be thanks to your Facebook cookie. When Facebook launches their new “SocialAds” platform on November 6th, it will unleash a network of sites with information not only on your browsing habits, but on all of your personal information.
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  • Remember the announcement of an Facebook’s public listing search of users on Google? Announced on September 5th, you will now be able to search on Google, or any other search engine and see the profile picture of one of the 50 million people on Facebook. Thankfully I’ve already opted out of this service, but for those of you who didn’t set your privacy controls, the display picture of you drinking with your buddies may be plastered all over the web for future employers to see.
Adam Bohannon

A New Debate on Female Circumcision - TierneyLab - Science - New York Times Blog - 0 views

  • Dr. Shweder says that many Westerners trying to impose a “zero tolerance” policy don’t realize that these initiation rites are generally controlled not by men but by women who believe it is a cosmetic procedure with aesthetic benefits. He criticizes Americans and Europeans for outlawing it at the same they endorse their own forms of genital modification, like the circumcision of boys or the cosmetic surgery for women called “vaginal rejuvenation.”
Adam Bohannon

Broken Metaphors: Blogging as Liminal Practice, Danah Boyd - MEABrokenMetaphors.pdf (ap... - 0 views

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Kevin Champion

At $1 per Watt, the iTunes of Solar Energy Has Arrived | SolveClimate.com - 0 views

  • A Silicon Valley start-up called Nanosolar shipped its first solar panels -- priced at $1 a watt. That's the price at which solar energy gets cheaper than coal. Curious that this story is not on every front page.
  • While other companies have been focusing their efforts on increasing the efficiency of solar panels, Nanosolar took a different approach. It focused on manufacturing.
  • Nanosolar has developed proprietary process technology that makes it possible to produce 100x thinner solar cells 100x faster.
Kevin Champion

NPR: Americans Skip a Page When It Comes to Reading - 0 views

    • Kevin Champion
       
      I bet developmental psychology a la Ken Wilber could offer some interesting explanations here.
    • Kevin Champion
       
      Hmm... wonder if Marshall McLuhan's "hot" and "cold" media has anything to do with this.
Kevin Champion

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology - A Group Blog » Are our best... - 0 views

    • Kevin Champion
       
      While I have not gone to grad school, and thus I am not an authority on the matter, one very large motivation for not going is something like this fear. I do not want to put myself in a situation where I am forced to study, read, and write about things that are of little importance to me. I would much rather pursue my own interests. Thus far, I have found this approach to be rather prolific, reading a book a week and working on numerous projects. I also find it very interesting how defensive these people are in the comments to this post. They seem to disagree whole-heartedly. This raises flags for me, flags of ignorance. Perhaps they are purposefully looking the other way. What do you think?
  • It seems that while most faculty (and, I would add, many students) assume that people drop out because they aren’t up to snuff, it may in fact be that the best students are finding that it is graduate school which isn’t up to snuff. Especially women.
Kevin Champion

Community - 100 views

The idea would be to Create community. Not community online. The online part is just a potential enhancement. One that does not currently exist here, and perhaps in very few places. The online ...

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