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Bri Zabriskie

We Are Visible - SIGN UP SPEAK OUT BE SEEN - helping you connect to the social world - 0 views

wearevisible.com/why-social-media.html

social media web2.0 homelessness

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 06 May 11 - No Cached
  • Bri Zabriskie on 06 May 11
     
    more about our discussion about the anonymity of presence online: This site is a diving board for people who are homeless to begin using social media. It advocates the use of social media to give these people a voice in a community that is more apt to ignore them. People don't often listen to people who "look" homeless, but because with social media they can blog/tweet/status update from their hearts and be judged only on the basis of what they say without being preempted by something else, people listen.
Krista S

Facebook Users Average 7 hrs a Month in January as Digital Universe Expands | Nielsen Wire - 0 views

blog.nielsen.com/...ry-as-digital-universe-expands

shared by Krista S on 16 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Top 10 Parent Companies/Divisions for January 2010 (U.S., Home and Work) Rank Parent Unique Audience (000) Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss) MOM UA % Change MOM Time % Change 1 Google 162,536 2:05:19 4.4% -11.7% 2 Microsoft 143,893 1:57:58 5.9% -4.1% 3 Yahoo! 138,850 2:28:33 6.6% -15.8% 4 Facebook 116,329 7:01:41 5.8% 9.7% 5 AOL LLC 87,629 2:14:12 -0.8% -7.5% 6 News Corp. Online 83,540 1:10:56 4.2% -9.4% 7 InterActiveCorp 75,433 0:14:16 5.4% -9.3% 8 Amazon 70,942 0:25:23 -4.7% -28.4% 9 eBay 68,909 1:18:41 1.4% -5.8% 10 Apple Computer 68,877 1:18:58 7.9% -10.0%
Weiye Loh

Victorian Literature, Statistically Analyzed With New Process - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...04victorian.html

Literature Statistics Content Analysis

shared by Weiye Loh on 04 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • The titles of every British book published in English in and around the 19th century — 1,681,161, to be exact — are being electronically scoured for key words and phrases that might offer fresh insight into the minds of the Victorians.
  • This research, which has only recently become possible, thanks to a new generation of powerful digital tools and databases, represents one of the many ways that technology is transforming the study of literature, philosophy and other humanistic fields that haven’t necessarily embraced large-scale quantitative analysis.
  • There is also anxiety, however, about the potential of electronic tools to reduce literature and history to a series of numbers, squeezing out important subjects that cannot be easily quantified.
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  • Some scholars are wary of the control an enterprise like Google can exert over digital information. Google’s plan to create a voluminous online library and store has raised alarms about a potential monopoly over digital books and the hefty pricing that might follow. But Jon Orwant, the engineering manager for Google Books, Magazines and Patents, said the plan was to make collections and searching tools available to libraries and scholars free. “That’s something we absolutely will do, and no, it’s not going to cost anything,” he said.
  • Mr. Houghton sought to capture what he called a “general sense” of how middle- and upper-class Victorians thought, partly by closely reading scores of texts written during the era and methodically counting how many times certain words appeared. The increasing use of “hope,” “light” and “sunlight,” for instance, was interpreted as a sign of the Victorians’ increasing optimism.
Audrey B

In Iran, Cyber-activism Without the Middle-man - PCWorld - 1 views

www.pcworld.com/166890

Iran Election Cyber Twitter YouTube Protest

shared by Audrey B on 22 May 10 - Cached
  • Twitter, which are giving Iranian citizens and supporters of the government protests there new ways of involving themselves in the political struggle.
  • They've let Iranians and supporters of the protesters share information, even within the centrally controlled Internet service in Iran and connected people like Papillon to a country on the other side of the world.
  • Proxy servers are Web sites that let people visit parts of the Internet that would normally be blocked to them.
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      Audrey B on 22 May 10
       
      Allowing people in Iran to speak up!
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  • Web 2.0 is paving new routes around Internet censorship.
  • Nowhere is Internet activism more visible than on Twitter
  • t's amazing how naturally people who are not necessarily technical have found ways to organize information on-line and decide who to trust using things as simple as Twitter -- a 140 character micro-blogging service with a basic search feature. "It's a pretty incredible counter-intelligence network," he said.
  • proxy servers have become a critical conduit for information.
  • In recent days these social media networks are getting more important as mainstream reporters have been confined to their hotel rooms on government orders or forced to head home when their visas expire.On YouTube users can find street scenes in Iran, including videos of protesters being beaten and shot by police. "The traditional media is in some ways not able to provide it because there are restrictions placed on them by the Iranian government," said YouTube spokesman Scott Rubin ."It's the citizens stealing the story."
    • Audrey B
      Audrey B on 22 May 10
       
      News reporters assist in allowing civil disobedience. It mentions that on YouTube, there are certain videos that would not be shown on public television. However, by using the web, we are not limited in what we can see in the world. Things are not hidden from us. The web tells it how it is and doesn't beat around the bush. This is important. Citizens are telling the story. Afterall, shouldn't government be run by the people? This is what Thoreau believed and what he practiced resulting in the writing of his revolutionary essay "Civil Disobedience". Hearing, Tweeting, and Viewing the stories of the citizens, of those being attacked or denied certain rights creates an appeal to unite and defy government (in this case). But to do so civily.
  • "Twitter is such a cut-out-the middleman type of situation,"
  • This has made information available to a wider group of people, but it in addition to spreading information about proxy servers, it has made home-grown attack tools available to a wider audience.
  • But soon the anti-government activists realized that DOS attacks were maybe not such a good idea. Not only is it illegal in many countries to launch a DOS attack, but this type of activity also slows down the network throughout Iran, making it hard to get messages out.
  • Twitter, in particular, has proven particularly adept at organizing people and information, said Zittrain. Although Proxies are the most popular way of reaching Twitter, updates can also be sent via other Web applications, SMS (Short Message Service) or even e-mail. "It's a byproduct of the way Twitter was built," he said. "The fact that the APIs are so open has meant that there are already lots of ways to get data in and out of Twitter, that do not rely on direct access to Twitter.com."
  • Audrey B on 22 May 10
     
    Twitter and YouTube both revolutionizing the way to civily defy government.
Krista S

The 4 C's of Catalytic Connections - 0 views

blog.thetippingbucket.org/...-4-cs-of-catalytic-connections

social media advice

shared by Krista S on 21 May 10 - Cached
  • Krista S on 21 May 10
     
    Don't just talk about yourself, talk about the world and show that you're listening.
Gideon Burton

Academic Evolution: Scholarly Communications will Transform via Cybermetrics - 3 views

www.academicevolution.com/...ications-must-transform-6.html

shared by Gideon Burton on 26 May 10 - Cached
    • Gideon Burton
      Gideon Burton on 26 May 10
       
      Note the features of this online writing: -situates itself relative to ongoing discussion (via explicit reference and links) -contains an explicit thesis statement early in the post -includes headings to make subsections easier to navigate and the longer post easier to read -includes appropriate images to draw interest, break up the text, and illustrate the argument -includes mild use of formatting options for emphasis (highlighting in this case) -includes hyperlinks to references -quotes and cites both traditional and online sources (uses the blockquote formatting for a longer quote) -links not only to sources for quotations, but to relevant entities or organizations, or to discussions of the issue (maybe less scholarly, but timely and relevant) -rhetorically, it lays out a story about the past, situates a phenomenon in the present, and discusses the impact for the future of these ideas within our more mediated digital environment -includes relevant tags -has received comments from others (due in part to the author "pinging" or announcing that he'd published a post on his blog via Twitter or other social media
Carlie Wallentine

Mormon Literature and Criticism - 1 views

blog.mormonletters.org/...o-start-criticizing-each-other

criticism LDS Literary interpretation

shared by Carlie Wallentine on 27 May 11 - No Cached
  • Carlie Wallentine on 27 May 11
     
    I mostly liked the 8th paragraph about how critics looking at any literature from an LDS perspective need to leave physical evidence of their work, so future LDS critics can build upon it and stop re-inventing the wheel.
Bri Zabriskie

Why I give stuff away | BenCrowder.net - 0 views

bencrowder.net/...why-i-give-stuff-away

creativecommons open culture

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 27 May 11 - No Cached
  • Bri Zabriskie on 27 May 11
     
    Why Ben Crowder (works on HBLL site) uses Creative Commons. I think open culture is so fascinating. Dr. Burton - you should do your whole lecture on scarcity v. abundance cultures. I need to digest that again and I think it'd be really interesting to the class. 
Ashley Nelson

Beyonce's Billboard Music Awards Show Strikingly Similar To Year-Old Performance From Italian Singer - Hip-Hop Media Training - 0 views

new.music.yahoo.com/...erformance-from-italian-singer

remix public domain

shared by Ashley Nelson on 25 May 11 - No Cached
  • Ashley Nelson on 25 May 11
     
    Thought this was interesting. A little borrowing from another artist, not uncommon.
Sam McGrath

10 Writing Tips for a Winning Web Site - 3 views

www.dailywritingtips.com/ng-tips-for-a-winning-web-site

writing web site

shared by Sam McGrath on 11 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Sam McGrath on 11 Jun 11
     
    This might have been good at the beginning of the semester. I guess for those of us who will keep blogging it can still help us out.
Ashley Nelson

Unleash Your Imagination - FanFiction.Net - 0 views

www.fanfiction.net

stories collaboration writing fanfiction fanfic identity

shared by Ashley Nelson on 11 May 11 - Cached
  • Ashley Nelson on 11 May 11
     
    A website that is dedicated to making sure that you got the ending you wanted to your favorite show. People can write and make up stories using characters that have already been created like Harry Potter or Batman.
  • Ashley Nelson on 11 May 11
     
    This is the site that I refer to in my blog.
Andrea Ostler

Why eBooks Matter - 1 views

palm-coast-flagler-county-florida.blogspot.com/...oks-matter-opening-up-new.html

digital literature

shared by Andrea Ostler on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • Andrea Ostler on 12 May 11
     
    An interesting blog I found that talks about the changing times and the importance of technology in learning
Sam McGrath

Crowdsourcing - 0 views

www.crowdsourcing.com/cs

Jeff Howe crowdsourcing

shared by Sam McGrath on 10 May 11 - Cached
  • Sam McGrath on 10 May 11
     
    Looks like Jeff Howe does have a blog. This link was on his twitter account
Sam McGrath

H. P. Lovecraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Hp_lovecraft

Lovecraft literature

shared by Sam McGrath on 09 May 11 - No Cached
  • Sam McGrath on 09 May 11
     
    This related to a blog I just did. Go to themes. The first one is Forbidden Knowledge. He was mentioned in Rainbows End too.
Sam McGrath

The H.P. Lovecraft Archive - 0 views

hplovecraft.com

H. P. Lovecraft literature

shared by Sam McGrath on 09 May 11 - No Cached
  • Sam McGrath on 09 May 11
     
    Some stuff on H. P. Lovecraft. I wrote a blog mentioning him and he is also briefly mentioned in Rainbows End.
Ashley Nelson

The Public Domain - 1 views

www.thepublicdomain.org

public domain digital

shared by Ashley Nelson on 09 May 11 - Cached
  • Ashley Nelson on 09 May 11
     
    Found this cool blog spot about the digital culture book that I am reading. They have a comic, link to read the book (free), and more cool things.
Carlie Wallentine

What to Read Next.... - 5 views

www.stumbleupon.com/...www.whatshouldireadnext.com

books stumbleUpon connect

shared by Carlie Wallentine on 11 May 11 - Cached
  • Carlie Wallentine on 11 May 11
     
    A couple days ago we had a blog and class discussion on how we will never get to read everything we want, well, here is a site that will add to the "To Read" list!
  • Nyssa Silvester on 11 May 11
     
    This is awesome! I might make use of this in the future.
Ben Wagner

Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear Attempt on Google - The Daily Beast - 0 views

www.thedailybeast.com/...clumsy-smear-attempt-on-google

facebook google

shared by Ben Wagner on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • Ben Wagner on 12 May 11
     
    and to think I had finally come around on Zuckerberg
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