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The first major prison riot orchestrated via contraband cell phones.

Details are emerging about the recent blackout.

I just heard an npr episode where Terry Gross interviewed twitter co-founder Biz Stone about this. Very interesting. I think I'll put it into one of our future units: http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/

Young people are leaving blogs to run twitter and fb pages.... unique page views for blogger are down domestically (although up internationally). Tumblr & wordpress use remains consistent. Does anyone agree that blogger still feels like it's stuck in 2003 with its look, feel and usage?

Corporate America uses social media for advancing its services. Now organizations need to write policies on appropriate use of it tools to protect the company and its employees.

A nice summary of the concept as it relates to style and functionality. Fashion was one of the first industries to capitalize on it, and as certain products such as computers do not noticeably improve, companies have to use style, rather than functionality, to sell them.

danah boyd is quoted (name capitalized).

Review of a new book about the Turing Test, which Nick Carr discusses briefly at the end of The Shallows. The author Brian Christianson sets out to win the Turing Test.

interesting article. I already thought a few years ago that voice on Second Life was going to alter the "game." Here is some evidence

people often think anonymity on the internet breeds contempt. this article shows it's not that simple.

Y'know if the gamers assume that the female dwarves are Chinese players and they go out of their way to kill with added anti-Asian slurs that would be racist. But they are also female dwarfs. I guess these players can also express their misogynistic tendencies to boot. Nice.

SXSW-i 2011 "didn't feel blindly focused on discovering the killer app. Tech didn't feel like an end unto itself -- rather, it was about processing data with a purpose; data for a greater good." Librarians were a big part of the conversation at this year's festival

I saw this too and was really excited. I caught a story on WNYC yesterday about the importance of curating content, which I'll find and post to the group.

I think there's a special topics course on curation of information/data in the fall!

The NY Times examines how China has exerted control on the Internet and cell phones in the wake of the turmoil in the Mideast.

This strikes me as an incredibly uncritical and self serving article. Maybe this is just because every time one "moves" to the next page a Dell ad pops up. With the decrease of school funding and the increase of connection costs and databases, I would hate to have to rely on only online resources.

The director of Harvard University Library argues that the best digital library would be a non-commercial public digital library. Here, here!

Cory Doctorow reviews _The Information_, which traces its history from the early lexicographers to Wikipedia.

"The boundary between 'real life' and 'online' has disappeared"

A fascinating look "under the hood" of the technology used to collect the massive amounts of personal data that is created via social media. After givng an overview of the companies involved and how they achieve this, the article examines some of the ethical issues involved.

Changing view in anthropology attributes social cooperation/social learning and tools (first as weapons) as characteristics that set humans apart from other primates. See also http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/science/11kin.html

Jane McGonigal's new book - Reality is Broken - is out. This is an interview with her and some of the users of her games.

This article is on the editorial process of putting together David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel, which was several hundred pages of manuscript without a clear order. I thought this was interesting: ___ "It's my version of the novel," [Michael Pietsch, editor of the novel] admitted, adding that he talked to Little Brown's e-book staff about creating a version that would enable the reader to arrange the chapters in any order, but was told that was technically unfeasible. __ This is surprising to me - is the ebook form that inflexible? Or did the publisher not want to deal with the idea of so many versions circulating?

This is the direct link the National Digital Literacy Corps as proposed by the FCC in their 2010 "National Broadband Plan." If Congress decides to adopt and fund the recommendations, the corps will be modeled after Americorps. The program would target non-adopters, users who are new to ICT and the internet. "The Corps should target segments of the population that are less likely to have broadband at home, including low-income individuals, racial and ethnic minorities, senior citizens, people with disabilities, those with lower education levels, people in rural communities, those on Tribal lands and people whose primary or only language is not English." It is recommended that the corps recruit people with language skills so the classes and instruction would be provided in user's primary language.

A nice overview of how DPL differs from other mass-digitization projects such as Europeana and Google Books

I have uploaded other pdf documents at the bottom of one of my pages, but not the Times articles because I thought they would be accessible through the link. However, I don't know whether people notice docs at the bottom of the Google page even though I say "attached below" in the citation. The Times articles are now on ecollege in doc sharing and attached to my discussion reply. I hope that the Economist doesn't block users.

I recently also uploaded the Times articles as PDFs to my second page.