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Ben M

BBC NEWS | Technology | Berners-Lee on the read/write web - 1 views

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web2.0 Berners-Lee communication

shared by Ben M on 19 May 10 - Cached
  • Well in some ways. The idea was that anybody who used the web would have a space where they could write and so the first browser was an editor, it was a writer as well as a reader. Every person who used the web had the ability to write something. It was very easy to make a new web page and comment on what somebody else had written, which is very much what blogging is about.
  • For years I had been trying to address the fact that the web for most people wasn't a creative space; there were other editors, but editing web pages became difficult and complicated for people. What happened with blogs and with wikis, these editable web spaces, was that they became much more simple. When you write a blog, you don't write complicated hypertext, you just write text, so I'm very, very happy to see that now it's gone in the direction of becoming more of a creative medium.
  • I feel that we need to individually work on putting good things on it, finding ways to protect ourselves from accidentally finding the bad stuff, and that at the end of the day, a lot of the problems of bad information out there, things that you don't like, are problems with humanity.
    • Heather D
      Heather D on 19 May 10
       
      This reminds me of how I think the Church uses these tools. Yes, the internet can be used for not-so-good things...but ultimately, it can be used and is meant to be used to expand the Church's work.
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  • My hope is that it'll be very positive in bringing people together around the planet, because it'll make communication between different countries more possible.
    • Ben M
      Ben M on 26 May 10
       
      Reminds me of Robert and his ham radio friends all over the world
  • building of something very new and special,
    • Ben M
      Ben M on 26 May 10
       
      a cathedral!
  • Gideon Burton on 19 May 10
     
    The man who launched the very first website talks about the way blogs and wikis have realized his initial vision of the web as a space for participatory creativity (and writing in particular)
Audrey B

Digital Activism in Iran: Beyond the Headlines | DigiActive.org - 0 views

www.digiactive.org/...iran-beyond-headlines

shared by Audrey B on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Audrey B on 24 May 10
     
    This is great. Digital Activism and I'm writing on Electronic Civil Disobedience. I like it.
becca_hay

Single-Sex Public Education - Children and Youth - Schools - Gender - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...02sex3-t.html

gender boy girl teaching

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  • becca_hay on 24 May 10
     
    This goes along with the monkey article I just shared! read both, they're so interesting when shown in eachother's light!
becca_hay

Toy choice among boys, girls a matter of monkey business - 1 views

www.eurekalert.org/...tau-tca121002.php

gender male female

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  • becca_hay on 24 May 10
     
    Ok guys, this was too good and WAY too interesting to keep to myself!
Allison Frost

A Global Tour of Online Protests | UsefulArts.us - 0 views

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shared by Allison Frost on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Where have all the protests gone? Many of the most interesting and successful are making creative use of new online environments
  • Rappresentanza Sindacale Unitaria IBM Vimercate (RSU), the official trade union representing IBM’s 9,000 workers in Italy, undertook a novel form of industrial action – a strike on Second Life. IBM has a large Second Life presence, in which 2,000 characters in protest shirts, carrying signs, picketed. The result was a change in a salary increase policy for employees in Italy and an award from the French Senate.
  • Allison Frost on 24 May 10
     
    Online protests. Second life protestors with second life picket signs.
Katherine H

pdf of The English literature researcher in the age of the Internet - 2 views

citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/...download

English internet research

shared by Katherine H on 24 May 10 - No Cached
  • Katherine H on 24 May 10
     
    This article talks about the effects that the Internet is having on English professors and researchers. It mentions the increased research and publishing possibilities, the opportunities provided by email, and the opinions of academics - many of whom were reluctant to accept these new technologies as equal to traditional methods.
  • Katherine H on 24 May 10
     
    Hopefully the link works - I'm not sure since it's a download of the pdf.
Neal C

Every Hug, Every Fuss - Scientists Record Families' Daily Lives - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...23family.html

families data collection leisure time gender roles

shared by Neal C on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • The same cannot be said of the fieldworkers, most of them childless graduate students seeing combat for the first time. “The very purest form of birth control ever devised. Ever,” said one, Anthony P. Graesch, a postdoctoral fellow, about the experience. (Dr. Graesch and his wife have just had their second child.)
  • The couples who reported the least stress tended to have rigid divisions of labor, whether equal or not. “She does the inside work, and I do all the outside, and we don’t interfere” with each other, said one husband.
  • In addition to housework, mothers spent 19 percent of their time talking with family members or on the phone, and 11 percent taking occasional breathers that the study classified as “leisure.” The rates for fathers were 20 percent chatting, and 23 percent leisure — again, taken in fragments.
Neal C

Every Hug, Every Fuss - Scientists Record Families' Daily Lives - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...23family.html

data collection archiving gender roles families

shared by Neal C on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Mothers still do most of the housework, spending 27 percent of their time on it, on average, compared with 18 percent for fathers and 3 percent for children (giving an allowance made no difference).
    • Neal C
      Neal C on 24 May 10
       
      ungrateful kids
  • the U.C.L.A. project was an effort to capture a relatively new sociological species: the dual-earner, multiple-child, middle-class American household. The investigators have just finished working through the 1,540 hours of videotape, coding and categorizing every hug, every tantrum, every soul-draining search for a missing soccer cleat.
  • One researcher roamed the house with a handheld computer, noting each family member’s location and activities at 10-minute intervals.
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  • puter, noting each family mem
  • Neal C on 24 May 10
     
    This is an interesting article about the way new methods of documentation and archiving allow researchers to collect and code more data than ever before - a "reality TV" paradigm.
Gideon Burton

HASTAC | Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory - 0 views

www.hastac.org

digital humanities online learning portal new media

shared by Gideon Burton on 22 May 10 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 22 May 10
     
    HASTAC ("haystack") is a very important initiative in the digital humanities, including blogs, contests, projects, and people who are engaged in the cutting edge of moving literature and learning into the digital age.
Gideon Burton

My Bookshelf | Electronic Literature Directory - 0 views

eld.eliterature.org

born digital digital humanities literature

shared by Gideon Burton on 22 May 10 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 22 May 10
     
    An effort to gather born-digital literature.
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.
    • Audrey B
      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.
Audrey B

What Would Martin Luther King Make of Twitter? | VF Daily | Vanity Fair ... - 0 views

www.vanityfair.com/...thurston.html

Martin Luther King twitter civil disobedience

shared by Audrey B on 21 May 10 - Cached
  • Audrey B on 21 May 10
     
    Baratunde Thurston imagines how the civil rights leader would have expressed himself in 140 characters. It is interesting to see that MLK was a reader and follower of Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience". There is civil disobedience going on all across the web. Was Thoreau also a precursor for an influx of electronic civil opposition?
Ben M

Faithful Track Questions, Answers and Minutiae on Blogs - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...05religion.html

bloggernacle religion feminist mormon

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  • Ben M on 21 May 10
     
    NYT article about the Mormon Feminist Housewives blog, the bloggernacle, and religious blogging in general
Chris Anderson

BBC News - Pakistan blocks access to YouTube in internet crackdown - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...10130195.stm

shared by Chris Anderson on 21 May 10 - Cached
  • For Muslims, directly insulting the sacred is beyond petty 'freedom of speech' privileges we mortals have. In the West, people think arrogantly that they are free to say anything without limits whatsoever, no matter how ridiculous or insulting.
    • Chris Anderson
      Chris Anderson on 21 May 10
       
      It's interesting how (having the ability to freely post their opinions on the issue) people in these comments are showing how they have no concept of the purpose of free speech that we are used to.
Audrey B

Social Networks Spread Defiance Online - 1 views

www.markmfredrickson.com/...nytimes-iran-twitter.pdf

Social-Networking

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  • Audrey B on 21 May 10
     
    As the embattled government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to be trying to limit Internet access and communications in Iran, new kinds of social media are challenging those traditional levers of state media control and allowing Iranians to find novel ways around the restrictions.
  • Chris Anderson on 21 May 10
     
    Interestingly, Pakistan is having these same issues right now: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10130195.stm What I think is interesting is the clashing conceptions of what free speech constitutes and how these social media is forcing those who are used to a more totalitarian view to think about the overarching issue
jardinejn

Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture by Bruce Lent... - 0 views

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The Great Depression Communication technology

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  • jardinejn on 21 May 10
     
    This shows how people viewed relatively unfamiliar mediums of communication back in the Depression and I think makes some relevant points on how the relationship of the masses with the new media can either forcast or reflect cultural values of the time.
  • jardinejn on 21 May 10
     
    This shows how people viewed relatively unfamiliar mediums of communication back in the Depression and I think makes some relevant points on how the relationship of the masses with the new media can either forcast or reflect cultural values of the time.
Gideon Burton

My Arabic Mission: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" - 0 views

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blog genre blogging blogs student blogs

shared by Gideon Burton on 21 May 10 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 21 May 10
     
    An interesting example of a photo essay post from a student abroad. Note the thematic continuity across the pictures and in relation to the interspersed poem.
Audrey B

Iran Elections: A Twitter Revolution? - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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Social-Networking twitter iran

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  • Audrey B on 21 May 10
     
    Evgeny Morozov, a blogger for Foreign Policy magazine and a fellow with the Open Society Institute, discusses the role of Twitter and other social-networking services during the Iranian elections.
Audrey B

Green Iran pic and blog post - 0 views

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Blog twitter iran

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  • Audrey B on 21 May 10
     
    Blog report on iran elections and twitter.
Krista S

The 4 C's of Catalytic Connections - 0 views

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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.
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