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Laurie A.

Friendster to Erase Early Posts and Old Photos - 0 views

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    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
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    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."
Jessica McDonough

Super Mario Management - 0 views

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    Jane McGonigal applied psychology book on the life lessons in gaming is reviewed in the Economist. "Frustratingly, few of the book's other examples are as convincingly argued as World of Warcraft." The review will also state that it will be a while before a game designer wins the Nobel peace prize. Her frequent mentions of her own games also "lend the book an air of self-promotion."
Laurie A.

Program on Liberation Technology - 0 views

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    This center explores how ICTs foster/hinder freedom, democracy, human rights & development.
Jessica McDonough

Stopped in their tracks - 0 views

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    A proposed privacy law could help as well as hurt America's web companies. A "privacy bill of rights" was introduced on March 16 by Obama, which will outline internet privacy rights. Internet Explorer and Firefox will have more do-not -track features in their new versions. Privacy laws are stricter in the EU.
Laurie A.

Rise in Online Classes Flares Debate about Quality - 0 views

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    So far, it's mostly being used for students who fail courses, and retake it as "online credit recovery."
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    The Idaho example is crazy (in my opinion), and private corporations are increasingly trying to get K-12 education money. However, online classes can be appropriate at this level in some situations (e.g., languages).
Laurie A.

I took the Turing Test; Review of The Most Human Human: What Talking With Computers Tea... - 0 views

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    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.
Judy Panagakos

Library Student Journal - 0 views

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    I just found this, and don't recall seeing it before. It is a peer reviewed journal aimed at MLIS students. It comes out of Buffalo. I just wanted to share, no specific article, but it looks like a good resource. Open access journal.
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    Thanks for sharing this Judy... I think someone once posted something about it on LISSA. I just checked the editorial team and there's two Rutgers students listed. I don't them though.
Laurie A.

Long-Form Journalism Finds a Home - 0 views

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    "The Atavist has captured new ways to present long-form content for the digital age, mixing multimedia presentations and deep, engrossing articles." Article written by David Carr, although Nick Carr might like this because it understands that "The Web is good at creating short and snappy bits of information, but not so much when it comes to long-form, edited, fact-and-spell-checked work."
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    reminder to everyone - today the NYTimes goes behind a paywall, and you will only be able to read 20 articles a month for free. But if you click on this article through diigo, it shouldn't count against your 20. I've heard conflicting reports whether NYTimes digital will remain free for students, or if they will get discount on the $15/month rate. I can't find anything official on the web right now. Has anyone else heard anything?
Laurie A.

National Broadband Plan: National Digital Literacy Corps - 0 views

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    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.
Laurie A.

Playing Catch-Up in E-Books - 0 views

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    Article looks at the ebooks business in Europe, where it is still in its infancy. Not many readers available, and very little content in other languages besides English. There are legal and economic issues for pricing and licensing of ebooks.
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    I was just going to add this here. I debated whether to cite it on one of my pages. They also mention the example of the music industry.
Jessica McDonough

2011 Congressional Briefing National Release of Speak Up 2010 K-12 Students and Parent... - 0 views

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    On April 1, 2011 Project Tomorrow released the report "The New 3 E's of Education: Enabled, Engaged and Empowered - How Today's Students are Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Learning" at a Congressional Briefing held in Washington, DC. Their survey revealed that e-textbooks are not yet widely used in the K-12 environment.
Laurie A.

Can young students learn from online classes? - 0 views

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    The Room for Debate section of the NYT looks at this question. Are schools looking to spend less on teachers, or do online classes provide new skills and opportunities?
Laurie A.

Piecing Together Wallace's Posthumous Novel - 0 views

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    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?
Laurie A.

Miss G.: A Case of Internet Addiction - 0 views

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    Is the internet an addiction or a passion?
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    "In general, if a pastime is not classy, those who love it are 'addicted.' Opera and poetry buffs are 'passionate.'"
Jessica McDonough

Tech Brigands - 0 views

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    Amazon's Cloud Drive allows you to upload to Amazon's servers your music, ebooks etc, but the content companies don't want you to be able to hold onto the content.
Anna Lisa Raya Rivera

The E-Textbook Experiment Turns A Page : NPR - 0 views

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    This NPR story shows how an etextbook can be more contextual than a standard 2-D book. Imagine being able to watch an example of cell division and not just read about it?
Anna Lisa Raya Rivera

What is a Vook? - 0 views

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    Like the etextbook story I just linked to, this video on "what is a vook?" shows how interactive ebooks can be. I'm not sure how I feel about all this functionality just yet. It makes sense for certain kinds of etextbooks, but I'm not sure if I want video to go with my "Pride & Prejudice."
Anna Lisa Raya Rivera

E-Book Sales Rise in Children's and Young Adult Categories - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    I'm surprised that this NYT story doesn't have any better reasons for why teenagers are a new surging market in ebook sales. My guess, which I posted on eCollege was that they're used to having tech gadgets in their hands and that maybe a book seems antiquated to them. But that's just my guess.
Laurie A.

Out There in the Dark, All Alone - 0 views

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    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. "
Anna Lisa Raya Rivera

Future of the Book - 0 views

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    Design firm IDEO came up with some crazy ideas for the future of the book, one of which is really social in nature. These are some cool ideas/videos.
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