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David

I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...07awareness-t.html

shared by David on 17 Sep 11 - Cached
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      Sort of like a motion-sensor camera that only activates and records when there's a change in the environment...
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      Is it a coincidence that the rise of FB has been in line with the rise in reality tv?
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      Why do we care about other people's gossip?
  • “Frankly, I don’t need to know or care that Billy broke up with Sally, and Ted has become friends with Steve.”
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      While some people don't want to know this kind of info. Many people apparently do. 
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  • When I spoke to him, Zuckerberg argued that News Feed is central to Facebook’s success. “Facebook has always tried to push the envelope,” he said.
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      I'm wondering how the "news feed" of facebook has influenced our expectations for other contexts. Has it made us expect efficiency? Has it made us lazy? 
  • Users’ worries about their privacy seemed to vanish within days, boiled away by their excitement at being so much more connected to their friends
  • social norms catching up with what technology is capable of.”
  • In essence, Facebook users didn’t think they wanted constant, up-to-the-minute updates on what other people are doing. Yet when they experienced this sort of omnipresent knowledge, they found it intriguing and addictive. Why?
  • “I really hate it when people clip their nails on the bus”
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      For me this is facebook type material. To my way of thinking Twitter should make me better - better informed, better connected, a better professional, human being etc.
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      I think it all adds up to a growing informality in our day to day communications... brevity, immediacy, intimacy
  • The phenomenon is quite different from what we normally think of as blogging, because a blog post is usually a written piece, sometimes quite long: a statement of opinion, a story, an analysis.
  • Haley discovered that he was beginning to sense the rhythms of his friends’ lives in a way he never had before.
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      This is not the promoted use of Twitter... I always see it as an intellectual/professional connection tool, but is that just the way it's evolved?
  • But they also discovered that the little Ping-Ponging messages felt even more intimate than a phone call.
  • the idea of using communication tools as a form of “co-presence”
  • Ambient intimacy becomes a way to “feel less alone,” as more than one Facebook and Twitter user told me.
  • “I have a rule,” she told me. “I either have to know who you are, or I have to know of you.”
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      What rules do other's have about their social media? We were talking about this kind of thing in G9 PSHE the other day
  • awareness tools aren’t as cognitively demanding as an e-mail message.
  • “Things like Twitter have actually given me a much bigger social circle. I know more about more people than ever before.”
    • Jamie Raskin
      Jamie Raskin on 17 Sep 11
       
      Are these gratifying relationships? I don't know that I have gratifying relationships built on snippets of info...
  • What sort of relationships are these? What does it mean to have hundreds of “friends” on Facebook? What kind of friends are they, anyway?
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      How do the fact that we are wrestling with these questions impact our relationships IRL (in real life)? Are they all in real life or are they distinct? 
  • This makes them skimmable, like newspaper headlines; maybe you’ll read them all, maybe you’ll skip so
    • David
      David on 17 Sep 11
       
      twitter feeds are "skimmable", don't have to read in great detail
  • psychological studies have confirmed that human groupings naturally tail off at around 150 people: the “Dunbar number,” as it is known. Are people who use Facebook and Twitter increasing their Dunbar number, because they can so easily keep track of so many more people?
  • “I outsource my entire life,” she said. “I can solve any problem on Twitter in six minutes.”
  • This rapid growth of weak ties can be a very good thing. Sociologists have long found that “weak ties” greatly expand your ability to solve problems.
  • Parasocial relationships can use up some of the emotional space in our Dunbar number, crowding out real-life people.
  • “They can observe you, but it’s not the same as knowing you.”
  • the sheer ease of following her friends’ updates online has made her occasionally lazy about actually taking the time to visit them in person.
  • It brings back the dynamics of small-town life, where everybody knows your business
  • a culture of people who know much more about themselves.
    • Adam Clark
      Adam Clark on 17 Sep 11
       
      Also maybe also a culture of narcissists.  http://www.narcissismepidemic.com/aboutbook.html
  • t’s like the Greek dictum to “know thyself,” or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness. (Indeed, the question that floats eternally at the top of Twitter’s Web site
  • The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you’re feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act.
  • “It drags you out of your own head,
Miss Uchii

Online tools and applications - Go2web20 - 0 views

www.go2web20.net

shared by Miss Uchii on 17 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Miss Uchii on 17 Sep 11
     
    A comprehensive site to find zillions of interesting web 2.0 applications and tools. 
Joy Seed

My Favorite Collaboration Apps - 5 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...avorite-collaboration-apps.php

shared by Joy Seed on 02 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Joy Seed on 02 Oct 11
     
    There is a long list of collaboration tools here. 
Adam Clark

Digital Context for Education - Video - 8 views

link.brightcove.com/...bcpid77582246001

Tools Pedagogy connected

shared by Adam Clark on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Adam Clark on 22 Sep 11
     
    "It's not about the technology it is about teaching and learning. Can a teacher be a good teacher without using technology? Yes. Are they doing their job? No."
Jamie Payne

Mrs Emery connects « Human - 0 views

tomazlasic.net/...mrs-emery-connects

Group 9 article

shared by Jamie Payne on 17 Sep 11 - No Cached
    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      Moddle and Blog? which is better?
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      Moodle is for poodles!
  • vanity on the net
    • Ruth Ingulsrud
      Ruth Ingulsrud on 17 Sep 11
       
      Vanity, vanity... all is vanity. Facebook and blogging. Tweeting and texting. For a true introvert, this can't help but irritate me to a certain extent.
    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      yes...too an extent
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  • Barrack
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      Sp. - I hope she followed the right person!
    • Ruth Ingulsrud
      Ruth Ingulsrud on 17 Sep 11
       
      She should check the spelling on his birth certificate. :) I had a relative unfriend me for offering to send her a copy.
  • choice
  • choice,
    • Sunita Devadas
      Sunita Devadas on 17 Sep 11
       
      yeah choice is the key operating word.
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      That's why I like Twitter more than FaceBook - you can choose exactly who to interact with, rather than having it based on family / friends
    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      too right!
  • The potential seemed endless.
    • toomuchdot
      toomuchdot on 17 Sep 11
       
      Yep!
    • Alex Guenther
      Alex Guenther on 17 Sep 11
       
      Yep!
    • Jamie Payne
      Jamie Payne on 17 Sep 11
       
      Is Twitter the right tool to connect two classrooms on other sides of the world? I don't know.
  • ntroduced me to Twitter.
  • Twitter
    • Ruth Ingulsrud
      Ruth Ingulsrud on 17 Sep 11
       
      Twitter is for TWITS
Chris Betcher

Flickr RSS Feed Generator - 1 views

www.degraeve.com/flickr-rss

rss flickr tools generator feed

shared by Chris Betcher on 17 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Chris Betcher on 17 Sep 11
     
    Mac OS X has a screen saver that takes an RSS feed of images as a data source. Naturally I thought Flickr would provide good RSS feeds for tags, and users. Flickr offers these feeds, but unfortunately limits them to 20 items and does not offer any sorting or filtering options. To gain more control over RSS feeds of Flickr images, I made this Flickr RSS Generator. This generator uses the Flickr API to retrieve images determined by parameters you specify and returns an RSS feed, whose URL you can paste into the screensaver options screen in OS X.
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