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I dunno if you guys have seen this yet today but this is interesting in terms of Google's position that digitizing all books will open-up access to millions of books worldwide.

Did anyone else notice this link from the previous week? Left wing gad about Douglas Rushkoff starts to question the unintended consequences for the user of social media. Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, etc. may have created exciting new ways for us to interact "virtually", but we pay for it, even when it's free.

I really like that he advocates that students (& all people) learn to program. People resisted learning to type too! And while it is harder, no harder than learning to read or write.

This section of the AARP site provides articles for seniors with information on buying tips, new tools, privacy & security, social media and other recommendations on using technology. The articles are for the novice as well as the experienced technology user. Specific to our conversation on digital divide are the articles on "Boomers Catching Up in Technology Use"

The study is very informative, it was particularly relevant for me, because the study sample comes from Mercer county.

I liked the link to the pew research statistics.

How has the distribution and viewing experience of watching a movie changed in the instant netflix age? "There are moviegoers and probably critics who don't care about the kind of box that images come in, how those images were created and how they are consumed, though it seems important to mark these changes and how they are affecting our modern or postmodern selves. Television and home video shrank movies, turning them into more easily obtainable images that are perhaps no longer (as) sacred. The new 24-hour movie, meanwhile, has brought other changes, filling our eyes and sometimes flooding our heads with an unending stream of visions. "

Some people in the class were asking about Friendster a few weeks ago. They are going to delete al of the old information (graveyards of old digital selves) and start over

dana boyd is quoted: "We want to forget our misdeeds and bad choices, but we also kind of want to remember them," said Danah Boyd, a social media researcher at Microsoft and a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. "These old networks are our memories."