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Dana Longley

Faux Friendship - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • In retrospect, it seems inevitable that once we decided to become friends with everyone, we would forget how to be friends with anyone.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 08 Dec 09
       
      As much as I enjoy Facebook, I've been pondering similar thoughts to this recently.
    • Dana Longley
      Dana Longley on 08 Dec 09
       
      I guess is really depends on how you use Facebook. I don't consider everyone I connect w/ on Facebook as actual friends, but more as contacts (but "friends" is how they market it). But certainly some who I've met online first became actual friends and I don't think those relationships are any less real than ones formed prior to SNSs.
Dana Longley

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  • Dana Longley on 07 May 10
     
    edu-oriented tool using twitter and Facebook. Students can sign up with existing twitter and Fb accounts.
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Stacking the Tech | Twitter and the Visual Dataverse - 1/7/2010 - Library Journal - 0 views

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  • As weary as I and others might be of the breathless microblogging-as-miracle media narrative,
  • And yet, I still think that at its core Twitter is simply right now’s next big thing, sure to be knocked off its pedestal by Google Wave or something else sooner or later. Moreover, it is following the predictable tech startup arc almost perfectly: Stage 1. Confusing blog buzz  Stage 2. Reactionary doomcrying about whatyouhadforbreakfast status updates Stage 3. Noticed by NPR, which flogs it to death Stage 4. Takes off in a big way Stage 5. Creators sell for billions or arrange an IPO (this is where we are currently) Stage 6. Finally, either A) relative stability (Facebook) or B) meteoric decline (MySpace)
  • Data visualization is the practice of summarizing vast amounts of information in graphical form. For a quick primer on the subject, see the examples at Information Aesthetics and the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods, or watch Gapminder creator Hans Rosling demonstrate the “beauty of statistics” in his TED presentation on global health.
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  • After eons of being relegated to the nerdiverse, this is the year in which visualization tools finally made statistics sexy.
  • What started with the simple folksonomic word cloud has become something resembling a hurricane—from hilarious online dating analytics on OKCupid to textual visualizers like Wordle to en suite graphical tools in Digg and Delicious, visualization has finally gone viral
  • Twitter stands out because its simple, location-based transparency and relentless immediacy lend themselves perfectly to visualization—tweets come on so fast and furious that they are almost impossible to follow, making graphical summaries of user-generated content extremely useful.
  • Twitter visualization apps also allow users to chart their own statistics, taking the proverbial web-based navel-gazing to new depths
  • The rising popularity of visualization affects how people engage with our stock and trade: information. When data becomes prettier to look at, not only does it become more comprehensible,
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