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Ed Webb

Air Force used Twitter to track NY flyover fallout - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 10 Aug 09 - Cached
  • WASHINGTON – As the Pentagon warns of the security risks posed by social networking sites, newly released government documents show the military also uses these Internet tools to monitor and react to coverage of high-profile events. The Air Force tracked the instant messaging service Twitter, video carrier YouTube and various blogs to assess the huge public backlash to the Air Force One flyover of the Statue of Liberty this spring, according to the documents. And while the attempts at damage control failed — "No positive spin is possible," one PowerPoint chart reads — the episode opens a window into the tactics for operating in a boundless digital news cycle.
  • a unit called the Combat Information Cell at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida
  • A Utah Air National Guard unit, the 101st Information Warfare Flight in Salt Lake City, was also monitoring the social sites
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  • The issue of aliases is at the heart of a complaint stemming for the Army Corps of Engineers' performance in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. On Tuesday, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., asked the Pentagon inspector general to examine allegations that Corps employees posed as ordinary citizens and posted comments on a New Orleans web site defending the organization from criticism following the disaster. Jon Donley, former editor of NOLA.com, said in a June 9 affidavit that there were as many as 20 registered users who developed a pattern of not only defending the Corps, but at times being "overtly abusive" to any critics. He said he was able to trace their posts to a Corps Internet address. Ken Holder, a spokesman for Corps' New Orleans District, said it will cooperate with any investigation.
Gabriela Grosseck

How to verify a tweet | Twitter Journalism - 0 views

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twitter research

shared by Gabriela Grosseck on 25 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Gabriela Grosseck on 25 Jun 09
     
    Twitter is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter if you have 100 followers or 10,000, you can break news. That's because all tweets are recorded and indexed at search.twitter.com. If someone types the right keyword(s), they can find your tweet. Breaking Tweets prides itself on giving many different types of Twitterers credit for breaking news, whether it be someone in Honduras with a dozen followers recording the first "earthquake" tweet or a news organization providing the first details of a major story. But how do you know a tweet's legitimate?
LUCIAN DUMA

BLOGGING 2.0 IN EDUCATION in XXI CENTURY: 3 applications for new twitter who change soc... - 0 views

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shared by LUCIAN DUMA on 30 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • LUCIAN DUMA on 30 Dec 10
     
    3 applications for new twitter who change social web : hoverme , qwerly and lazyscope
Maggie Verster

140 University from C4LPT - 1 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 20 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 20 Jun 10
     
    "Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz are great places to discover and share new things - and therefore to build and extend your education. Discover new classes in the form of knowledge nuggets and related links to supporting FREE resources (web pages, videos, podcasts, etc) - in less than 140 characters. Explore the classes that you are interested in! Share your comments. Classes are delivered daily - 7 days a week. Saturday is quiz day"
Ed Webb

ED announces student video contest - 1 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 28 Sep 09
     
    To get students invested in their education, President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have announced a new video contest
Dana Huff

Free Technology for Teachers: How To Do 11 Techy Things In the New School Year - 1 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...echy-things-in-new-school.html

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shared by Dana Huff on 12 Aug 10 - No Cached
  • Dana Huff on 12 Aug 10
     
    A quick-start guide for teachers who want to try something new in the 2010-2011 school year.
Ed Webb

Study Shows Students Are Addicted to Social Media | News | Communications of the ACM - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • most college students are not just unwilling, but functionally unable to be without their media links to the world. "I clearly am addicted and the dependency is sickening," says one person in the study. "I feel like most people these days are in a similar situation, for between having a Blackberry, a laptop, a television, and an iPod, people have become unable to shed their media skin."
  • what they wrote at length about was how they hated losing their personal connections. Going without media meant, in their world, going without their friends and family
  • they couldn't connect with friends who lived close by, much less those far away
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  • "Texting and IM-ing my friends gives me a constant feeling of comfort," wrote one student. "When I did not have those two luxuries, I felt quite alone and secluded from my life. Although I go to a school with thousands of students, the fact that I was not able to communicate with anyone via technology was almost unbearable."
  • students' lives are wired together in such ways that opting out of that communication pattern would be tantamount to renouncing a social life
  • "Students expressed tremendous anxiety about being cut-off from information,"
  • How did they get the information? In a disaggregated way, and not typically from the news outlet that broke or committed resources to a story.
  • the young adults in this study appeared to be generally oblivious to branded news and information
  • an undifferentiated wave to them via social media
  • 43.3 percent of the students reported that they had a "smart phone"
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Claude Almansi

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview. ENG 3... - 0 views

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shared by Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 27 Sep 09
     
    As print takes its place alongside smoke signals, cuneiform, and hollering, there has emerged a new literary age, one in which writers no longer need to feel encumbered by the paper cuts, reading, and excessive use of words traditionally associated with the writing trade. Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era focuses on the creation of short-form prose that is not intended to be reproduced on pulp fibers. Instant messaging. Twittering. Facebook updates. These 21st-century literary genres are defining a new "Lost Generation" of minimalists who would much rather watch Lost on their iPhones than toil over long-winded articles and short stories. Students will acquire the tools needed to make their tweets glimmer with a complete lack of forethought, their Facebook updates ring with self-importance, and their blog entries shimmer with literary pithiness.
Ed Webb

Is the internet making teens nicer? - Yahoo! News - 2 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 18 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • We typically assume that the internet is turning kids into narcissistic, vicious cyber-bullies, but a growing body of research indicates that the opposite is true. New research suggests that spending time emailing, texting, and Facebook-ing might actually help both adults and kids become better friends and people
  • the more time college students spent on the internet, the more empathetic they were both online and off
  • Forty-five percent of 3,777 teens surveyed reported being bullied, but fewer than 20 percent of those said it had occurred online or via text messaging or phone. Almost 40 percent said it had happened in person. And two-thirds of those bullied online said they didn't even find the abuse upsetting.
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  • "Have our brains become so desensitized by a 24/7, all-you-can-eat diet of lurid flickering images that we've lost all perspective on appropriateness and compassion?" they asked. A 2007 study of 18 to 23-year-olds found they were less able to identify expressions of emotion after playing violent video games. And, while Dr. Rosen's study found that can help people relate better, it also found that excessive social networking makes some teens more prone to aggression, mania, anxiety, and depression.
LUCIAN DUMA

PLEASE share , vote , comment CRED Project http://on.fb.me/credfacebook - 0 views

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shared by LUCIAN DUMA on 23 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • LUCIAN DUMA on 23 Mar 12
     
    CURATION RESTART EDUCATION project http://on.fb.me/credfacebook  want to bring a new dimmension and restart romanian education . For this reason we must vote ( you can register on the website using your facebook account ) , to share using Social Media ( twitter with the hastag #credchat ) and what is most important to add our comments and feedback on this website after we read the description of the ,, CRED " project http://bitly.com/proiectulcred . Very important : If your vote want to be validated must vote still 26 mars 3 projects including CRED project . If you have a project who can restart education you still can post here http://www.restartedu.ro/about
Maggie Verster

How to Use the New Twitter User Interface - 1 views

www.socialmediaexaminer.com/new-twitter-user-interface

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shared by Maggie Verster on 17 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 17 Nov 10
     
    Nive video and explanation
Ed Webb

Why Twitter Will Endure - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 03 Jan 10 - Cached
  • nearly a year later, has Twitter turned my brain to mush? No, I’m in narrative on more things in a given moment than I ever thought possible, and instead of spending a half-hour surfing in search of illumination, I get a sense of the day’s news and how people are reacting to it in the time that it takes to wait for coffee at Starbucks. Yes, I worry about my ability to think long thoughts — where was I, anyway? — but the tradeoff has been worth it.
  • open standards that become plumbing
  • The act of publishing on Twitter is so friction-free — a few keystrokes and hit send — that you can forget that others are out there listening. I was on a Virgin America cross-country flight, and used its wireless connection to tweet about the fact that the guy next to me seemed to be the leader of a cult involving Axe body spray. A half-hour later, a steward approached me and said he wondered if I would be more comfortable with a seat in the bulkhead. (He turned out to be a great guy, but I was doing a story involving another part of the company, so I had to decline the offer. @VirginAmerica, its corporate Twitter account, sent me a message afterward saying perhaps it should develop a screening process for Axe. It was creepy and comforting all at once.)
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  • people on Twitter who serve as my Web-crawling proxies
  • The best people on Twitter communicate with economy and precision, with each element — links, hash tags and comments — freighted with meaning.
anonymous

British universities need urgent reform - 1 views

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shared by anonymous on 27 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • British universities are undergoing an identity crisis
  • They no longer relate comfortably to schools, parents, students, would-be students, the examination system, the education marketplace, the British government – or each other.
  • As we report today, as many as one in five universities is staging its own entrance exam because it no longer trusts the state's A-levels to distinguish between averagely bright and very bright pupils: teenagers from both these groups routinely arrive on their doorsteps with grades worthy of a Nobel prize winner.
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  • Clearly, they are here to stay – unless the Government summons up the nerve to reform education far more radically than it is already doing.
  • Tuition fees reflect fast-changing circumstances that will force good universities to raise the academic as well as the financial bar in order to compete internationally. As they do so, they will increasingly question the arguments for remaining shackled to a British state that not only genuflects in front of the altar of egalitarianism (albeit a bit less piously than before) but also, as we are reminded again today, cannot even devise a proper set of exams for sixth-formers.
  • anonymous on 27 Dec 10
     
    Telegraph View: British universities no longer know exactly what they are and what they are for. - British universities are undergoing an identity crisis. They no longer know exactly what they are and what they are for, now that social engineering has stretched the definition of "university" to breaking point. They no longer relate comfortably to schools, parents, students, would-be students, the examination system, the education marketplace, the British government - or each other. Every week brings fresh evidence of the weakening of these bonds, even in the middle of the Christmas holidays. - As we report today, as many as one in five universities is staging its own entrance exam because it no longer trusts the state's A-levels to distinguish between averagely bright and very bright pupils: teenagers from both these groups routinely arrive on their doorsteps with grades worthy of a Nobel prize winner...
  • tree saro on 01 Jan 11
     
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Ed Webb

BBC News - Bin Laden and The IT Crowd: Anatomy of a Twitter hoax - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...magazine-13467407

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shared by Ed Webb on 25 May 11 - No Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 26 May 11
     
    By Graham Linehan - May 24, 2011
Maggie Verster

Twapper Keeper - "We save tweets" - Archive Tweets - 3 views

twapperkeeper.com/index.php

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shared by Maggie Verster on 30 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 30 Aug 11
     
    "Do you want to archive tweets from your conference? Maybe archive trending hashtags or keywords for historical or analysis purposes? Maybe save your own personal tweets? "Twapper Keeper is here to help! Create a new Twapper Keeper archive based upon hashtag, keyword, or person.
Ed Webb

It's Time To Hide The Noise - 3 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 04 Oct 09 - Cached
  • the noise is worse than ever. Indeed, it is being magnified every day as more people pile onto Twitter and Facebook and new apps yet to crest like Google Wave. The data stream is growing stronger, but so too is the danger of drowning in all that information.
  • the fact that Seesmic or TweetDeck or any of these apps can display 1,200 Tweets at once is not a feature, it’s a bug
  • if you think Twitter is noisy, wait until you see Google Wave, which doesn’t hide anything at all.  Imagine that Twhirl image below with a million dialog boxes on your screen, except you see as other people type in their messages and add new files and images to the conversation, all at once as it is happening.  It’s enough to make your brain explode.
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  • all I need is two columns: the most recent Tweets from everyone I follow (the standard) and the the most interesting tweets I need to pay attention to.  Recent and Interesting.  This second column is the tricky one.  It needs to be automatically generated and personalized to my interests at that moment.
  • search is broken on Twitter.  Unless you know the exact word you are looking for, Tweets with related terms won’t show up.  And there is no way to sort searches by relevance, it is just sorted by chronology.
Fabian Aguilar

Checking e-mail before your morning coffee? You're not alone - Ars Technica - 0 views

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shared by Fabian Aguilar on 12 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Hyperconnectivity is spreading beyond workers who are tethered to smartphones all day and night—families now wake up and get online first thing in the morning. Is yours one of them?
  • The New York Times recently highlighted the dramatic change in many families' mornings, noting that kids are hopping on Facebook while Mom and Dad are checking up on e-mail and Twitter the minute they wake up. 
  • Most firms that analyze Web traffic note that things slow down overnight but spike pretty high first thing in the morning—especially for websites that are consumer or socially oriented. Text messages in the morning are even up—according to Verizon, texts sent between 7 am and 10 am rose 50 percent year-over-year.
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