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Gary Ritzenthaler

Home Broadband Adoption 2009 - Pew Research Center - 0 views

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    Note not only the growth of boradband but the surprising number of people who still don't have it.
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    "Home broadband adoption stood at 63% of adult Americans as of April 2009, up from 55% in May 2008. The latest findings of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project mark a departure from the stagnation in home high-speed adoption rates that had prevailed from December 2007 through December 2008. During that period, Pew Internet Project surveys found that home broadband penetration remained in a narrow range between 54% and 57%."
Gary Ritzenthaler

Does the Internet Make You Dumber? - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Nick Carr makes the case that the Internet is changing the way we think, and not in good ways - vs. a Clay Shirky essay from the same day.
Gary Ritzenthaler

Teenagers' Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation. "
Gary Ritzenthaler

Wired 12.01: How the Internet Invented Howard Dean - 0 views

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    2004 article on how Dean used the Internet in the 2004 POTUS election.
Gary Ritzenthaler

The new fame: Internet celebrity - CNN.com - 0 views

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    " Traditional celebrity lives and dies based on raw numbers: how many magazines mention them, how many television shows feature them, how many people talk about them around the water cooler. Internet fame can be more intimate, Weinberger says, more of a personal connection between the one and the few."
Gary Ritzenthaler

Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don't build ... - 0 views

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    NYU professor and Internet thinker Clay Shirky gave a talk Tuesday at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, our friends just on the other side of Harvard Square. His subject was the future of accountability journalism in a world of declining newspapers.
Gary Ritzenthaler

eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: Is Social Media a challenge for Higher Education? - 0 views

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    The usage of these technologies in learning processes is not a fad, it is just a normal reflection of the evolutionary development of internet. Our students like YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, ect. and spend much time in these virtual places. The informal learning based on Web 2.0 exists and functions like a "university in shadow" with possibilities of a borderless digital learning environment. So, why don't the educators present the power of social media for learning and better strategies for its utilization?
Gary Ritzenthaler

The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Long NYT read about a the challenge facing society - "a challenge that, in big and small ways, is confronting millions of people around the globe: how best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing - where every online photo, status update, Twitter post and blog entry by and about us can be stored forever."
Gary Ritzenthaler

Full interview: Bill Wasik and Hal Niedzviecki on why we post regrettable videos online... - 0 views

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    "On this week's show, Nora sits down with Bill Wasik and Hal Niedzviecki to talk about why the heck we post regrettable videos on the internet. It's one thing to do the embarrassing or foolish or inappropriate thing, but it's a whole other problem when we record a video and upload it on YouTube for the world to see."
Gary Ritzenthaler

Facebook hits 300 million users. What's next for social networking? - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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    Some very debatable assumptions about how we use technology and social media in particular in this piece; a good read nonetheless. "Five years from now, will Internet historians signpost the Facebook movie, due out in 2010, as the beginning of the site's end?"
Gary Ritzenthaler

Video: Access Internet Content in Physical Context Using Augmented Reality « ... - 0 views

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    "In this video he gives a demonstration of how information (often from the web) can be over layed on top of physical locations." ... as if people didn't spend enough time completely immersed in their cellphones.
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Gary Ritzenthaler

The Internet Kid Grows Up | Newsweek.com - 0 views

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    Short, basic interview with Marc Andreessen on Ning and social networks.
Gary Ritzenthaler

Spokesman.com | For some groups, Web isn't so worldwide | Jun 14, 2009 - 0 views

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    "...as more and more elements of everyday life move online, the lack of Web access also puts certain populations - the poor, rural residents, those with less education - at risk of being marginalized and left without an important tool for connecting to education and health and social services, advocates say."
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    A good newspaper account of the "digital divide" problem.
Gary Ritzenthaler

Link by Link - The Wars of Words on Wikipedia's Outskirts - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "In a sweeping ruling with little precedent in the eight-year history of Wikipedia, the committee blocked editing from "all I.P. addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates, broadly interpreted." The ruling did allow users from those addresses to appeal to be reinstated on a case-by-case basis."
Gary Ritzenthaler

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: God Texts the 10 Commandments. - 0 views

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    srsly.
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    This was totally hilarious.
Gary Ritzenthaler

Internet Famous: Julia Allison and the Secrets of Self-Promotion - 0 views

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    From Wired: case study of how to be a queen of self-promotion.
Gary Ritzenthaler

The Structure of Information Networks (Jon Kleinberg) - 0 views

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    Fall 2007 course at Cornell - via O'Reilly blog
Gary Ritzenthaler

Pew Internet: Twitter and status updating - 0 views

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    "As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others. "
Gary Ritzenthaler

Pew Internet: Social Networking and Teens - 0 views

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    statistics and basics of uses & grats for social networks
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