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March 07, 2009
4:52
Some 2009 Twitter Statistics
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Via istrategylabs: a href="http://www.istrategylabs.com/twitter-2009-demographics-and-statistics/"2009 Twitter Demographics and Statistics Report/a.br /br /I was bit surprised to find that Twitter is more heavily female than male, but not that it's popular in the 18-34 demographic.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6716578-2153845691874445775?l=faziarizvi.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
February 15, 2009
0:48
Our Documentation Impulse
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Via Digital Natives:br /blockquotea href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2009/01/27/viewfinders-digital-natives-and-the-documentation-impulse/"Viewfinders: Digital Natives and the Documentation Impulse/abr /br /[Regarding the Obama Inauguration expereince ...]br /br /But what about the digital natives who were “really” there? How did they traverse the liminal zone between their screens and ...
0:41
Resource: Social Media in Government
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Via the Guide to Managing U.S. Government Websites:br /blockquotea href="http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/technology/other_tech.shtml"Social Media and Web 2.0 in Government/abr /br /What Is Social Media and Web 2.0?br /br /Social Media and Web 2.0 are umbrella terms that define the various activities that integrate ...
0:14
The Myth of Concentration vs. Digital Distraction
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Via Mind Hacks:br /blockquotea href="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/02/the_myth_of_the_conc.html"The myth of the concentration oasis:/abr /br /Wired has an interview with author Maggie Jackson who's recently written a book called 'Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age' in which she argues modern ...
February 14, 2009
2:04
Scientific American on Twitter
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Via Scientific American:br /blockquotea href="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=twitter-what-is-it-good-for-2009-02-13"Twitter: What is it good for?/abr /br /Just who's using Twitter, and to what end? We're about to tell you, but the answer takes more than 140 characters — the limit for tweets.br /br /Some 11 ...
February 12, 2009
1:52
Bloggies to announce global blog awards at SXSW
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Besides the usual interactive panels and discussions, The 2009 Bloggies will announce their winners at this year's SXSW Interactive Festival, in Austin, Texas. According to the awards website, the Bloggies are the Web's longest-running blog awards, and the nominations, finalist ...
February 11, 2009
0:19
Reflecting on Cultural Changes
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Actor David H. Lawrence makes his case for what he feels is span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"SAG's/span (The Screen Actor's Guild) failure to understand the realities of how to make money with the Internet:br /blockquotea href="http://david.typepad.com/acting/2009/02/but-i-thought-hey-you-thought-wrong.html""But I thought..." Hey, you thought wrong./abr ...
January 24, 2009
0:00
The Invisible Community Manager
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Via Virtual Cultures:br /blockquotea href="http://virtualcultures.typepad.com/virtualcultures/2009/01/the-amazing-invisible-community-manager-a-rant.html"The Amazing Invisible Community Manager (a rant)/abr /br /Recently, I've run into a situation, a possible consulting situation, where the decision was made to forgo input from a community pro (me, in this case, but it's ...
January 23, 2009
22:00
Girls Have the Edge
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Via Science Daily:br /blockquotea href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090120074828.htm"Girls Have The Edge In New Technologies, New Report Reveals/abr /br /A new report, co-authored by a University of Hertfordshire academic, reveals that girls are more likely to have new technologies at home than boys and ...
20:00
TweetMinister
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Via Smart Mobs:br /blockquotea href="http://www.smartmobs.com/2009/01/18/tweetminster-where-real-life-and-politics-tweet/"Tweetminster where real life and politics tweet/abr /br /TweetMinster is a public service in the UK that makes it easier to connect the public with politics using Twitter. TweetMinster allows to track UK politics in real ...
17:00
Users Having Trouble With Complex New Tech
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Via the BBC:br /blockquotea href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7833944.stm"New phone features 'baffle users' /abr /br /The complexity of modern mobile phones is leaving users frustrated and angry, research suggests.br /br /Some 61% of those interviewed in the UK and US said setting up a ...
1:59
Aarron Walter Speaks at SXSW
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Aarron Walter, designer, developer, author and full-time faculty member in the Interactive Media Design department at The Art Institute of Atlanta a href="http://sxsw.com/node/864"will host a panel/a titled "No Web Professional Left Behind: Educating the Next Generation" at this year's South ...
0:00
Educating for Web Professionals
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Via A List Apart:br /a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/brighterhorizonsforwebeducation"/ablockquotea href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/brighterhorizonsforwebeducation"Brighter Horizons for Web Education/abr /br /Our young medium is still ironing out a few kinks—perhaps the biggest of which is the way budding web professionals are being educated. Schools that teach web design ...
0:00
Social Networks: Real Life
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Via Digital Natives:br /blockquotea href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2009/01/19/unfriending-pt-2-social-networks-vs-real-life/" rel="bookmark"Unfriending, Pt. 2: Social Networks vs. Real Life/abr /br /A few weeks ago, before winter break and also before certain unfortunate events took place, I wrote a post about “unfriending.” To my delight, this post ...
January 22, 2009
23:29
Getting the "feel" of Twitter
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First, an article via CNN:br /blockquotea href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/22/db.twitterverse/"Who will be masters of the ever-expanding 'Twitterverse'?/abr /br /Hugely popular, Twitter is a platform for sending frequent short messages (or tweets) to many people from your phone or the Internet, and receiving the ...
17:00
Higher Ed Adopts Social Media
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Via the a href="http://sncr.org/"Society for New Communications Research/a:br /br /a href="http://sncr.org/2009/01/19/reesearch-on-social-media-adoption-by-high-ed-sector/"/ablockquotea href="http://sncr.org/2009/01/19/reesearch-on-social-media-adoption-by-high-ed-sector/"Colleges and Universities Adopt Social Media to Recruit and Research Potential Students; Outpace Corporate Adoption of New Communications Tools and Technologies/abr /br /Colleges and universities are using social media ...
0:00
New Technology and Cultural Contamination?
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Via the BBC:br /blockquotea href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7824096.stm"The drawbacks of new technology/abr /br /How can we be sure new technologies won't have a negative impact, asks Bill Thompsonbr /br /[...]br /br /And what happens if new tools or services disrupt established community practices, ...
0:00
Anthropologist Studies WoW
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Via Got Game:br /blockquotea href="http://news.gotgame.com/anthropologist-studies-wow-nerd-rage-and-guild-friendships/23203/"Anthropologist Studies WoW, “Nerd Rage,” and Guild Friendships/abr /br /[...]br /br /Golub, an anthropology professor from the University of Hawaii, is studying World of Warcraft, and what he describes as “the culture of raiding.” Certain in-game ...
January 21, 2009
20:00
Web Site Design Affects How Children Process Information
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Via ScienceDaily:br /blockquotea href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114110927.htm"Web Site Design Affects How Children Process Information/abr /br /A new study in the journal Psychology amp; Marketing investigates the influence of website design on children’s information processing. Results show that the type of interface used can ...
17:00
Why No eBay or PayPal in Pakistan?
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Via In the Line of Wire:br /blockquotea href="http://jehanara.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/an-open-letter-to-ebay-and-paypal/"An Open Letter to eBay and PayPal/abr /br /I am reproducing this letter written by Faisal Khan to the Presidents of eBay and PayPal to ask what piece of legislation, law, banking infrastructure, ...
January 20, 2009
7:06
Congratulations, Dr. Boyd
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Via Global Nerdy:br /blockquotea href="http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/19/danah-boyds-dissertation-and-my-cheat-sheet-for-it/"danah boyd’s Dissertation and My “Cheat Sheet” for it/abr /br /If you were born in the 1990s, you fall into the “youth” demographic and are considered to be part of the “Generation Y” or “Millennial” generation ...
3:00
It's The Game, Not The Gore
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Via ScienceDaily:br /blockquotea href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116073152.htm"Video Game Players Love The Game, Not The Gore/abr /br /[...]br /Research to be published online January 16 in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin shows that, contrary to popular belief, violence does not make video games ...
January 19, 2009
22:00
IT Attacks: Social Engineering
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Via ScienceDaily:br /blockquotea href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090115081741.htm"How We Are Tricked Into Into Giving Away Our Personal Information/abr /br /We human beings don’t always do as we have been taught, and organizations are poorly prepared for IT security attacks that target human weaknesses. Since ...
19:00
Upcoming Conference: Cybercultures - Exploring Critical Issues
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Via Intute:br /blockquotea href="http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/cgi-bin/conferencesfull.pl?id=10419"Conference and event details/a:br /br /Cybercultures - Exploring Critical Issuesbr /Salzberg, Austriabr /13 Mar 2009 - 15 Mar 2009br /br /This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications ...
17:00
Can Blogging Reduce Impact of Life Events on Career?
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Via The Ed Techie:br /blockquotea href="http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/01/blogging-as-occupational-therapy.html"Blogging as occupational therapy/abr /br /It is a bit incestuous to blog about blogging, but as it is still relatively new as a medium, I do find it interesting when it reveals the way in ...

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