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The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it - on knowing how to look at it.

Infotention is a word I came up with to describe the psycho-social-techno skill/tools we all need to find our way online today, a mind-machine combination of brain-powered attention skills with computer-powered information filters

I'm going to use this blog to raise issues about 21st century literacies, life online, and -- to be true to blogger eclecticism -- whatever I feel moved to write about.

I wasn't trying to control them. I was trying to draw their attention to how little control any of us seem to have over where we let the screens on our laps and in our pockets lead our thoughts.

He also talks about focused attention vs. multitasking and the importance of being able to handle an array of tasks simultaneously.

Unless a great many people learn the basics of online crap detection and begin applying their critical faculties en masse and very soon, I fear for the future of the Internet as a useful source of credible news, medical advice, financial information, educational resources, scholarly and scientific research.

My experiences have convinced me that the most important focus for public attention right now should shift to the literacies that bring power to those who possess them and leave behind those who don't know how to use their telephone as a medical instrument, educational medium, social radar, political organizing tool.

Why the history of the public sphere matters in the Internet age

This short casual Seesmic video thread post offers a great conversational introduction to Goffman's ideas about the presentation of self and how we mediate our performance according to context.

A great concept map that includes a number of the more elusive aspects of social media not typically addressed in the commercial (e.g., marketing, pr, business, startups, celebrity culture, corporate media) sphere.

The third in a series of videos documenting my use of social media in my personal and professional life. This installment introduces social bookmarking. My del.icio.us account is hrheingold.

McBride concurs. "This generation, more than any other, wants to be able to participate in knowledge-not just be an audience to it." She thinks emerging professionals should spend as much time using online tools for professional knowledge and development

So far on this blog, my posts have explored larger themes, such as Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants and the media's treatment of stories about technological dangers. But our blog here at Digital Nation also aims to take you behind the scenes and into the process of making a documentary film for FRONTLINE. We want you to see what we're working on, read what we're thinking about, and learn how our reporting is shaping our opinions on a daily basis.

by "successful," I mean that I gain value - useful information, answers to questions, new friends and colleagues - and that the people who follow me gain value in the form of entertainment, useful information, and some kind of ongoing relationship with me.

Lots of other things to use for presenting these days beyond powerpoint. A good collection for students or teachers.