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Sheryl Christensen

Read/Write World | A flexible fabric for exposing, connecting, and consuming geo-media ... - 0 views

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    It's a smaller and smaller world after all
Sheryl Christensen

Facebook locks out business pages without warning or remedy | AgentGenius - 1 views

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    Scary state of affairs when our content can be usurped without any possible recourse......
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."
Laurie A.

Program on Liberation Technology - 0 views

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

Google: video offers unusual glimpse inside one of its data centers - 0 views

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    This google video showing its datacenter and security, is probably in response to the amazon outage last week
Andrew Luck

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.
Jessica McDonough

Show Us the Data. (It's Ours, After All.) - 1 views

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    Should all of the information on us be made available to us?
Jessica McDonough

In a Data-Heavy Society, Being Defined by the Numbers - 0 views

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    Sherry Turkle is quoted in this article that discusses how young people especially increasingly quantify everything.
Jessica McDonough

It's Love at First Kill - 0 views

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    People meet spouses and make other connections on World of Warcraft, as discusses in Turkle's book.
Jessica McDonough

Google Says It Collects Location Data on Phones for Location Services - 1 views

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    Google says that phones need to know your location to provide services.
Debbie Drachman

Spy phone gps tracker - 0 views

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    Is Someone Keeping Secrets from You? Reveal All with the Worlds Most Powerful Spyphone
Andrew Luck

Amazon Media Room News Release: Amazon to Launch Library Lending for Kindle Books - 0 views

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    Here's the official release.
Laurie A.

Amazon Kindle to open up to library lending - 0 views

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    Ok, this is exciting, however, we don't know the details yet: "The company did not say how long the lending period for Kindle e-books would be, or if there were any restrictions on the number of checkouts for any books."
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    There is a lot of back and forth about this news in the library world. I have yet to give the Amazon annoncement the fine tooth comb treatment, but there are plenty of questions. Chief among them for me would be: What is a library's financial incentive to promote the Kindle (free or exceeding cheap content to loan would be a fine answer for me). Another issue has come up on public library list serves regarding Harper Collins' policies. It has come out that part of the agreement is that Harper Collins will have access to patron information. Although I have yet to see anyone explain the details of this aspect of Harper Collins' agrrement, would that be something Amazon would want as well?
Andrew Luck

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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    wow, and the data persists even when you upgrade the phone! The article says "In some ways, this shouldn't be surprising. Back in June of 2010, Apple updated its privacy policy to include a paragraph that allows Apple and "partners and licensees" to collect and store user location data." But of course hardly anyone reads the fine print.
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    Here is the open source tool the researchers made with the location data: http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/
Laurie A.

Bridging the Gap Between our Online and Offline Social Network - 0 views

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    This is a few years old but it's a slide presentation from Paul Adams, ex-Googler, currently Facebook product manager. His work was influential in the new Facebook "groups," and the rumored Google product "circles."
Laurie A.

Yahoo Will Keep Search Queries for 18 Months - 0 views

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    Yahoo changes its policy on search queries from 90 days to 18 months.
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    This article also references the incident in 2006 when AOL released its search query data: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html?gwh=300ED81FDF596D5587EF12FC33E8FE03
Andrew Luck

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".
Lilia p

Online racism - 2 views

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    interesting article. I already thought a few years ago that voice on Second Life was going to alter the "game." Here is some evidence
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    This article seems both scary and revealing. We knew racism was not really about race, but fear, power, and human nature. Now we have seemed to have backed our way into proving it.
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    people often think anonymity on the internet breeds contempt. this article shows it's not that simple.
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    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.
Laurie A.

Amazon to Sell the Kindle Reader at a Lower Price, but With Advertising Added - 1 views

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    From the article: "Still, books are one of the last ad-free zones, and by showing ads on an e-reader, Amazon risks alienating some users, he said. " Libraries too are one of the last ad-free zones.
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    They may try to release a tablet. "An Amazon tablet could tie together the seemingly disparate parts of the company's business, Mr. McQuivey said, including e-commerce, e-books, video and audio."
Andrew Luck

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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    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.
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