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Gary Ritzenthaler

10 Tips & Tricks For Your Business's Facebook Fan Page - 0 views

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    Some good ideas, and includes code snippets for the tips
Gary Ritzenthaler

Cadmus - Updates since you last checked in - 0 views

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    Great tool for filtering / organizing Twitter/friendfeed/rss feeds.
Gary Ritzenthaler

Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media - 0 views

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    Consider what it means to be "in flow" in an information landscape defined by networked media and you will see where Web2.0 is taking us. The goal is not to be a passive consumer of information or to simply tune in when the time is right, but rather to live in a world where information is everywhere.
Gary Ritzenthaler

Nieman Reports | The Attention Deficit: Plenty of Content, Yet an Absence of Interest - 0 views

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    "The scarce resource in the age of digital journalism is not high-quality content, but attention."
Gary Ritzenthaler

501 Places » Blog Archive » The great Twitter numbers swindle - Sharing the w... - 0 views

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    A great case study of why many of those sites that claim to measure your popularity are meaningless.
Gary Ritzenthaler

NPR's Hour-By-Hour Audience By Platform : Go Figure : NPR - 0 views

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    "we compiled some information just to see how our audience engages with NPR content on an average weekday, Saturday, and Sunday across all platforms: radio, the web, and our various mobile applications."
Gary Ritzenthaler

Study: The design of a social network influences behavior | Econsultancy - 0 views

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    "Understanding the ways the social graph changes and influences decision making is something marketers and scientists are frantically trying to figure out. According to a new study out of MIT, people are more likely to start new behaviors when they're recommended by small clusters of people they know well. This may not sound intensely groundbreaking, but it runs counter to the decades-long assumptions social scientists have been making."
Gary Ritzenthaler

The Journalists Formerly Known as the Media: My Advice to the Next Generation - Jay Ros... - 0 views

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    "I want to go in a completely different direction today. Ready? You need to understand that the way you imagine the users will determine how useful a journalist you will be."
Gary Ritzenthaler

Book Review - Cognitive Surplus - By Clay Shirky - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Shirky isn't concerned with what's on TV. What galls him is how much we watch, regardless of what's on. Television, he writes in "Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age," has "absorbed the lion's share of the free time available to citizens of the developed world."
Gary Ritzenthaler

YouTube - FaceBook In Reality - idiotsofants.com and BBC'sThe Wall - 0 views

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    short comedy bit parodies some elements of Facebook.
Gary Ritzenthaler

MIT TechTV - Scratch@MIT Friday Keynote: Rethinking Identity, Rethinking Participation - 0 views

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    "People often think about new technologies in task-oriented ways: how to access information, how to create projects, how to make presentations. But there is a more personal dimension to the role of new technologies in the lives of young people. In this session, Sherry Turkle and Henry Jenkins explore how young people, as they engage with new technologies, begin to change the ways they think about themselves, relate to others, and participate in communities.
Gary Ritzenthaler

SSN Study - FAQ - 0 views

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    Amazing study on how Facebook or similar sns data can be used to predict social security numbers.
Gary Ritzenthaler

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

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    "We've known for years that the Web allows for unprecedented voyeurism, exhibitionism and inadvertent indiscretion, but we are only beginning to understand the costs of an age in which so much of what we say, and of what others say about us, goes into our permanent - and public - digital files."
Gary Ritzenthaler

The Web 2.0 Summit Points of Control Map - 0 views

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    A fun take on the "social networks as a map" meme. Be sure to check the "movements button."
Gary Ritzenthaler

How To Use Facebook Places - PCWorld - 0 views

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    "Facebook's new Places feature lets you share your current location by "checking in" from your smartphone. Whether you never really got into earlier location-based social networking services like Gowalla or Foursquare or just want to know what it is (and how to turn it off), read on for everything you need to know about Facebook Places."
Gary Ritzenthaler

Twitter After a Disaster: Is It Reliable? - Digits - WSJ - 0 views

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    "Researchers at Yahoo analyzed tweets after the Chilean earthquake earlier this year and found evidence that the Twitter community works like a "collaborative filter," questioning reports that turn out to be fake and confirming those that are true."
Gary Ritzenthaler

Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    The material in this talk is the basis for his later writing in the book Here Comes Everybody.  | "In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning."
Gary Ritzenthaler

Facebook friend request gets man in jail | Technically Incorrect - CNET News - 0 views

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    Another example of the integration of virtual and physical selves.
Gary Ritzenthaler

Many Eyes: Social Network Size by Registered Users - 0 views

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    as of 08/2010
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