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Amazon outage sparks frustration, doubts about cloud - 0 views

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    The computing cloud run by Amazon suffered an outage last week. Could this inspire a lack of confidence in the technology? Our Professor may have some feelings about it.
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Amazon Media Room News Release: Amazon to Launch Library Lending for Kindle Books - 0 views

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    Here's the official release.
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Researchers: Apple's iPhone Keeps Track Of Every Little Place You Go - 0 views

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    This is data that will cause some privacy issues. Now one can really be connected.
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5 Myths About the 'Information Age' - 0 views

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    Robert Darnton, a university librarian at Harvard, tries to dispell some of the hype regarding the "Information Age".
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We Interrupt This Program: Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff has second thoughts about ou... - 1 views

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    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.
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A Digital Library Better Than Google's - 0 views

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    The director of Harvard University Library argues that the best digital library would be a non-commercial public digital library. Here, here!
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China Tightens Censorship of Electronic Communications - 0 views

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    The NY Times examines how China has exerted control on the Internet and cell phones in the wake of the turmoil in the Mideast.
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Giving Literature Virtual Life - 0 views

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    NY Times article on how using a game life like virtual reality aids in the teaching of literature.
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Not-So-Extreme Makeover - As school libraries shift their reference materials from prin... - 0 views

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    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.
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Always Connected: The new digitial media habits of young children - 0 views

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    And here's the report itself. I look forward to reading this with a critical eye.
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80% of Children Under Age 5 Use the Internet - 0 views

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    The people that bring you Sesame Street now bring you some pretty incredible statistics on internet use by the five and under set. Doesn't Sesame Street have an on-line presence?
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Big Data mining: Who owns your social network data? - 0 views

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    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.
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The Dirty Little Secrets of Search - 1 views

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    An interesting article on how Google's search results can be manipulated from the Feb 13, 2011 NY Times Business section. Is our search engine research being manipulated in other ways as well?
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Social Media in the Schoolhouse - 0 views

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    An article from "Teaching Tolerance" magazine that deals with how social media can be, perhaps, used in the classroom to engender community based learning and social justice.
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Learning to Share, Thanks to the Web - 2 views

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    This is a NY Times article on how co-operative programs (like bike-sharing) are getting a boost from the spirit of collaboration on the web. The piece tries to trend spot "collaborative consumption", a "new" business model. We will have to see what happens.
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The Information : How the Internet Gets Inside Us. - 0 views

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    Adam Gopnik wrote on overview on many of the issues we are discussing this week in last Monday's New Yorker. I haven't read the article as closely as I would like yet, but I noticed many familiar names.
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Marshall McLuhan Clip on How Media Changes Human Perception - 0 views

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    Many of the ideas that we are discussing are not so new and even predate the Internet. Marshall McLuhan made a name for himself dealing with these issues in the 1950's and 60's. Although some of his ideas have perhaps not proved true his basic concepts were on the money. From a CBC broadcast May 18, 1960.
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    My favorite is "The Mechanical Bride" - a great critique of new (at the time) electronic media, consumerism, marketing and how they could affect the way we perceive ourselves. "The Media is the Massage" is a fun and relatively quick read and covers many of McLuhan's key concepts.
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Sociocultural Theories of Learning by Beata Godejord - 0 views

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    A very simple and rudimentary explanation (via a PP presentation) of how learning is culturally informed. These ideas are probably elementary to Social Informatics. However, these are concepts that are very easy to forget and don't seem to be very firmly implanted in America's collective conscious.
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Evgeny Morozov's blog : Net Effect - 0 views

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    In many ways, this is just one more pundit (and we know how much attention they can get by being contrary), but he does provide a counterpoint to much of the enthusiasm over the democratizing effects of social media.
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