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(Okay, I have been trying to post this for about an hour now! I keep getting an error message!) Well, this video talks of social media burnout...and at this very moment, I have it! I am over and done with it...Unless this posts...then I will give it another chance.

It posted! Was surprised to see interviewer say women were disengaging from Facebook; they sort of put that out there and then glossed right over it.

I came across blip.tv while working on a project for Principles of Searching last fall. The link above, (Social Buzz t.v.) is an example of a program related to our social informatics topic. While the commercial cans be a little annoying and quality of production can vary greatly, I have found some really good videos here. Here's an episode from a different program that I came across that discusses one of my pet peeves...iphone dinner table etiquette. (It's also kind of funny!) http://blip.tv/captureyourflag/social-media-dinner-table-etiquette-caroline-giegerich-8-27-09-chapter-12-2698172

:) How sad that we feel so connected that we can't get through a dinner with face to face interaction without constantly checking our emails, facebook, etc. Sometimes I look at families at dinner and laugh because they all have their ipods and phones out, and they're not even talking to each other.

I find it amazing that people can't get through A MOVIE without taking out their phones to see if anyone emailed, texted or called. Crazy!

I often get frustrated by my 77 year old mother, who recently got a nice new computer (under much pressure from her daughters), but has a lot of reluctance about using it. This journal (iJETS) had many articles such as this one, that I believe could shed light on tactics to motivate this segment of society.

I really enjoyed this article, because my 63 year old mother in law is very computer-resistant, and I find it very frustrating. She wants to talk to me on the phone, but I really only want to use email. A generation difference really can make a technology difference.

My mom is also not online and no interest in the iPad. She often comments how the newspaper in her city is getting thinner and thinner so I often wonder if her view of the world and events if filtered by the fact that she's not online, and so much news and opinion is. Conversely, I met up with an old friend from high school last week who told me he refuses to really activate his Facebook account because his 70-something mom is on it and very active. I also know 30 year olds who only use computers and email at work because they have to and eschew everything else. Generalizations aside, I'm not convinced it's physical age, but more of a state of mind when it comes to new technology.

The Time Magazine Techland blog reports on theories behind why France banned mentions of Facebook and Twitter on French TV (unless the companies are being reported on specifically). Following French blogger Benoit Raphael (whose French-language blog is linked to in the article), they argue that "both social networks are so ubiquitious as to essentially count as public space."

This seems to parallel (perhaps even extend?) Sarkozy's recent support for building up intellectual property rights and digital rights management on the Internet. Interesting to see what sort of opposition might grow from your example (if any) in light of petitions and other fallout from many civic organizations in his calls for action at the e-G8 summit a couple weeks back: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/defending_innovation_and_net_neutrality_at_eg8_video.php?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4ddffe33e2a44342%2C0

I thought this blog was very interesting because of the ideas for teacher guidelines it presents. These guidelines seem to be straightforward, but as you can see, not all people who commented agreed with them, arguing freedom of speech and people's ability to exercise their own common sense.

Good advice! I recently had a teacher post on facebook about one of her students. She didn't mention a name, but I had a few complaints about it. (She unfortunately friends some of her parents)

what happens when organized religion and technology intersect? (or maybe not-so organized, i.e. the flying spaghetti monster). the article sites "dating service[s]" based on religion, as well as "virtual pilgrimage." the article is about a conference titled digital religion. came across this article and i think this topic is extremely interesting...might end up using it for my final project.

This is really interesting to me, too! I didn't even know such a concept was developing.

Teachers in favor of social media! It's not just technology, kids: it's an opportunity.

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information-gathering and dissemination practices for this site, http://www.tiaonline.org. IP and Usage Tracking. We use your computer's IP (Internet Protocol) address 10.130.179.249 to help diagnose problems with our server, track down spammers and to administer our Web site.

The best social network you've (probably) never heard of is one-five-hundredth the size of Facebook. It has no video chat feature, it doesn't let you check in to your favorite restaurant, and there are no games. The company that runs it has just four employees, one of whom is responsible for programming the entire operation.

Case Study: Implementing Database Activity Monitoring for a Major International Telecommunications Company Business need: A leading international telecommunications organization needed a cost effective means to protect the privacy of its customer data and comply with regulatory requirements. Solution: The customer's systems are managed by a well-known global systems integrator. After inquiring with Gartner and Forrester Research, the systems integrator evaluated multiple database auditing vendors (including Oracle) and chose the InfoSphere Guardium solution. InfoSphere Guardium's appliance-based technology allows companies to secure their enterprise data and rapidly address compliance requirements without affecting performance or requiring changes to databases or applications. Benefits: InfoSphere Guardium provided a fine grained audit trail of all sensitive data access, along with automated reporting and compliance workflow, satisfying the needs of auditors. Real-time blocking and alerts ensured privacy policies were strictly enforced. .

Just to backtrack a couple of weeks: I came across this FAQ pulled together by the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy that might be handy as a pocket-guide for the future to supplement the wiki the presenting group compiled.

I swear I just posted this to the group but it didn't show up, so apologies for a potential duplicate. This blogger observes the fact that a traditional mass media (think Nightly News with Walter Cronkite) doesn't really exist anymore, thanks to social news sites, YouTube, and the explosion of TV channels.

i always wonder about this...if the nightly news will ever "die out." i think about how older people (like my parents and grandparents) still turn the tv on to watch the news every single night, no matter what. personally i hope the nightly news sticks around. i find myself overwhelmed by online content. the news program gives me a summary of some issues...and if i want to do addition research on my own online, i can (don't have to trust them as the only 'authority'). maybe it's lazy that i want them to choose for me. but i like watching regular news programs...especially because i know those stories will come up on the daily show/colbert report :)

I took a class called "Internet and Democracy" at the UT school of journalism last year. It was fascinating to see how the journalism folks are getting used to social media. A lot of the same questions as LIS, but really working from a different model.

Interesting way to educate users about privacy settings

The Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World is ceasing publication. News Corp. announced Thursday that the final issue of Britain's best-selling tabloid will be Sunday. The paper is accused of hacking into the cell phone messages of victims ranging from a missing schoolgirl to grieving families, royals and politicians in a quest for headlines.

This is a few years old, but still makes me chuckle. Just an FYI: It's sorta NSFW...lewd words and such.

This article seems to fit in with what we are discussing this week. A closed-circuit television (CCTV) video that shows an extremely drunk man staggering home through the streets of London has taken the web by storm this week (you can watch it below). Although it's primarily entertaining because of its sheer shock value, it also serves to illustrate the surprising -- and, to many, alarming -- extent of video surveillance in the U.K.

I came across this new Droid app that enables users to obscure the faces of individuals in photos or videos they've taken on their mobile devices. The app creators are involved more generally in developing technologies and technology policies for human rights defenders, especially ones that document abuses, protests and other demonstrations and share the videos/pictures through various media channels and see a need to hide identities from repressive governments. I think it ties our discussion last week of Evgeny Morozov's research into the Internet and government oppression into the issue of privacy.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WORKERS' PRIVACY: ENFORCEMENT Hans-Joachim Reinhardt The use of information technology at work has emphasized a tension between two distinct principles that appear at first sight to be opposed to one other: On the one hand, there is the principle of the inviolability of the employees' private lives and private communications and, on the other, the principle of the employers' rights to enjoy their private property and their managerial powers of command.

Cengage announced their "Personal Learning Experience" - an integrated e-learning experience that has video, audio, annotations, and other source materials embedded in the application. No Shelf Required did a write-up here: http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/?p=2059. This is the kind of thing that looks really cool, but unless they can get course adoption, I don't see how it would gain a wide enough audience to be accepted.

This is an interesting concept about storing not just your music but all your personal information as well. I think it will probably catch on quickly, but privacy is still a main concern.