Kickin' It on the Internet

hey... loving diigo

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:58:08 -0500

my latest fun thing is diigo and i have discovered the social networking on e-how. no end of things to explore.

hey tumblr

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:21:39 -0400

are you still working/

Bloglines Experiencing Sporadic Downtime.

Sat, 09 May 2009 18:17:34 -0400

Bloglines Experiencing Sporadic Downtime.:

We wanted to let you know that the data center where Bloglines is housed is currently experiencing hardware issues. As a result, we are experiencing sporadic downtime of Bloglines. The network and…

American studies Part 3

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:31:13 -0500

American studies Part 3

toolbar

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:00:08 -0500

toolbar powered by Conduit

try for a toolbar

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:59:00 -0500

toolbar powered by Conduit

Bloglines Beta Gets Skin and Advertising

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:11:51 -0400

Bloglines Beta Gets Skin and Advertising:

Beta Blogliners,

We launched a new skin for Beta.bloglines.com. The revised skin comes after much review by Blogliners (Bloglinites?) who have been keeping us posted on their likes and dislikes…

Bloglines Continues to Lead Google Reader

Wed, 21 May 2008 15:41:26 -0400

Bloglines Continues to Lead Google Reader:

Heather Hopkins of Hitwise has a new post for all you Blogliners out there. She’s a VP of Research at Hitwise, a leading web analytics firm. She writes, “It (Bloglines) is the most popular…

Facebook

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:53:38 -0500

I am on the Instructional Technologies Committee in the IS section of ACRL. We are writing a piece on using Facebook in academic libraries and for instruction. It will be available as an “Info Tech Tip & Trends” (http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/iscommittees/webpages/emergingtech/techtips/index.cfm)

One section of the piece will provide examples of how this particular technology is being utilized for instruction in libraries. If you are using it for instruction, I would be very interested in hearing how you are doing so.

I am team teaching an information literacy class this semester where we are using Facebook as the course “container.”

But how else you are all using it?

Regards,

Susan S. Smith

Head, Information Technology

Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Wake Forest University

Winston-Salem, NC 27109

smiths@wfu.edu

Project Aims to Build Online Classroom With Latest Web 2.0 Features

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:52:33 -0500

Howard Rheingold was one of the first popular authors to write about the promises of online social networks, starting with his 1993 book, The Virtual Community. Now he’s bringing the latest online-community tools — wikis, videos, blogs, and the like — to the college classroom. And what better way to encourage professors to use online community tools than to create an online community where professors can talk about the topic? That’s what Mr. Rheingold plans to do, along with putting together a set of how-to guides to help other professors use social-media tools, which are sometimes referred to collectively as “Web 2.0.” The project is called the Social Media Virtual Classroom, and last week it won a $61,000 grant in the Digital Media and Learning Competition. The competition was sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, otherwise known as HASTAC. Mr. Rheingold said in an interview that students need to be exposed to “participatory media” in order to become active citizens, since he believes that political activism has increasingly moved online. “In the 21st century, civic education is participatory media literacy education,” he said. “The feeling of a citizen who only passively consumes what’s sold to them by broadcast media is very different from someone who has posted a blog item or who has posted a YouTube post, or who has commented on a newspaper article online.” Other projects that won the digital-learning competition include an effort to use laptop computers as musical instruments and an online community for professors working on virtual worlds like Second Life. —Jeffrey R. Young

Grand Text Auto

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:01:21 -0500

Grand Text Auto:

Experiments in interactive processing, commenting, coauthorship, distributed authorship, team writing including the arts

The Story of Stuff video

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:27:27 -0500

The Story of Stuff video

From Singularity Summit Conference Page

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:12:45 -0500

A growing number of highly respected technological figures, including Ray Kurzweil and Hans Moravec, have in recent years forecast that computational intelligence will, in the coming two or three decades, not only match but swiftly surpass human intelligence, and that civilization will at that point be radically transformed in ways that our puny minds cannot possibly imagine. This bold hypothesis, now often called “The Singularity,” strikes some as wonderful and strikes others as abhorrent. But whether it is wonderful or abhorrent, is the singularity scenario even remotely plausible, or is it just science fiction? If the singularity scenario is plausible, is the time frame proposed ridiculous or realistic?

Bloglines Beta Debuts Photo Widget

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:30:45 -0500

Bloglines Beta Debuts Photo Widget:

We have another treat for you Blogliners who have been patiently awaiting our redesign. Today’s special surprise is the Photo Widget View available within Bloglines Beta.We’ve been experimenting with different views in the Bloglines Start Page. In this case, we display photos from Flickr inside a Photo Widget. Sure beats a text description. We currently only do this for Flickr, but in future releases you will be able to apply the photo view for other photo-oriented feeds.

Here’s a little…

this is an interesting YouTube video.

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:59:12 -0500

this is an interesting YouTube video.

Tutting for Skyler

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:25:58 -0400

Tutting for Skyler

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:25:35 -0400

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=0ae62e3b1396831a8398&page=1&viewtype=&category=md

Tutting for Skyler

Facebook

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:31:15 -0400

TIME: Why do you describe Facebook as a “social utility” rather than a “social network?”

Zuckerberg: I think there’s confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals - some serve the function of business networking, some are media portals.

*** What we’re trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share information ***.

We always try to emphasize the utility component.

"It pays to be dumb enough to not know that you can’t do something. We give everything our best..."

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:16:42 -0400

“It pays to be dumb enough to not know that you can’t do something. We give everything our best shot.””

- Rita Maupin, Calhoun County Library, Blountstown, FL

"Virtual worlds are going to be as big a disruptor as the personal computer or the Internet"

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:38:41 -0400

“Virtual worlds are going to be as big a disruptor as the personal computer or the Internet”

- Mitch Kapor at Virtual Worlds 2007 in NYC (June)