http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/notadded Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/02/the_news_from_second_life_an_i_1.html Peter Ludlow on policing SL: Companies like SL have a difficult time dealing with transgressions b/c dispute resolution is hard, & dealing with troubled adolescents and troubled adults is hard. It can be done, but the people that game companies throw at these social problems are typically either people with an engineering background or unpaid volunteers with little to no formal training. katiebda Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:39:16 +0000 february07 norms participatory culture second life participation notadded http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-02-15-myspace-lawsuit_x.htm?csp=34 In a ruling issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks said MySpace is protected under the Communications Decency Act and cannot be expected to verify the age of every user because that "would of course stop MySpace's business in its tracks." katiebda Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:33:07 +0000 february07 law new frontier social networking notadded white paper http://breakyourspace.com/ Is your online social life suffering? Having problems getting rid of that pesky friend on MySpace or Facebook? Want to give Tom the boot, but are afraid of hurting his feelings? Then this is the place for you. BreakYourSpace is a unique service that specializes in breaking up with your online friends. katiebda Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:54:36 +0000 credibility march07 participation transparency notadded http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72832-0.html?tw=rss.index Digg's system works only so long as the crowds on Digg can be trusted. The author created a low-quality story and hired a Digg-gaming service called User/Submitter to buy votes. Digg's system works only so long as the crowds on Digg can be trusted. Whether they can be trusted in the long term remains to be seen, given the incentives built into the system for voting on the most popular stories. katiebda Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:54:04 +0000 credibility march07 participation transparency trust notadded http://edtags.org/uploads/community/nytimes_unpublished_authors_podcast_their_books.doc After being snubbed by publishers for years, Mr. Sigler began recording his first book, “EarthCore,” in 2005. He offered it as a podcast in 22 episodes (roughly 45 minutes each) that he posted online and sent free to subscribers for downloading. Before long, Mr. Sigler had 5,000 listeners; by the time he finished releasing his second novel, “Ancestor,” last January, he had 30,000. katiebda Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:43:18 +0000 authorship february07 notadded distribution http://edtags.org/uploads/community/nyt_fake_your_space.doc The 26 yr-old founder's idea was “to turn cyberlosers into social-networking magnets” by providing fictitious postings from attractive people. The postings are written by the client or by Mr. Walker and his employees, who base the messages on the client’s requests. FakeYourSpace says it does not post any messages that are threatening, pornographic or illegal. katiebda Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:15:18 +0000 credibility february07 participation transparency notadded identity http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1879 Having trouble making friends on MySpace? Another social-networking Web site is looking to set you up with some friends you might like. Mindkin was designed by students at Carnegie Mellon University as an online matchmaker, to help users find friends they may be compatible with. The university's student newspaper, The Tartan, says people are getting fed up with Facebook, MySpace, and other sites on which users must choose their own connections, often ending up with online "friends" whom they hardly even know. katiebda Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:50:39 +0000 february07 participation social networking notadded http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1885 Princeton University’s Undergraduate Student Government has created a Web service that allows students to complain to the professor when, say, he or she uses too much PowerPoint in class, without ever revealing their identities. The comments will be screened to filter out the nasty, according to the Daily Princetonian. Students will finally be able to give their professors a piece of their minds before the semester ends, without having to suffer any repercussions. katiebda Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:43:24 +0000 anonymity february07 participation notadded http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1889 Researchers at the University of East Anglia, in England, are developing computer methods to read people’s lips captured on video and convert the information to text, according to United Press International. Police hope to use the technology for fighting crime and protecting against terrorism. Although the technology is still being developed, researchers are optimistic that they will succeed. And law-enforcement officials are interested because fewer people know how to read lips than in the past. However, the presence of such technology could raise privacy concerns if it were widely used. katiebda Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:41:43 +0000 february07 privacy notadded http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/25/AR2007022501600.html "Kids who grow up under conditions where they have to multitask a lot may be developing styles of coping that would allow them to perform better in future environments where required to do a lot, but that doesn't mean their performance in the workplace would be better than if they were doing one thing at a time." katiebda Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:32:23 +0000 february07 multitasking quality notadded http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-02-22-youtube-breakup_x.htm?csp=34 A one-time college couple say their melodramatic Valentine's Day breakup — complete with singers, hundreds of spectators and a profanity-laced tirade — was real. Those who were there say it all seemed a little too staged. "To be honest, it wasn't really about her," Burke said. "I thought the relationship was headed that way anyway, so I just wanted to see people's reactions to the breakup." katiebda Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:45:22 +0000 february07 participation privacy story notadded http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-02-27-myspace-plea-deal_x.htm?csp=34 The popular MySpace social-networking site — where people create elaborate profiles and personalize them with photos, music and video — is supposed to offer anonymity to visitors who browse the pages. But Harrison and Mondelli's program collected e-mail addresses and Internet Protocol addresses, prosecutors said. Such information could have been used by stalkers trying to locate MySpace users, said Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey A. McGrath. katiebda Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:44:47 +0000 february07 participation privacy story notadded http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2006/tc20061204_056163.htm The anonymity afforded by virtual worlds also offers teens the opportunity to break out of whatever labels they may have been given in the offline world. If you're overweight in real life, your avatar can be svelte. If you're shy, you can still be the most popular avatar in the world. katiebda Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:05:33 +0000 december06 identity news notadded youth qpp http://www.slate.com/id/2157435/fr/rss/ This blog entry argues that we react so intensely against plagiarism for 2 primary reasons: 1) we value originality & creativity (that's why we tolerate Shakespeare's creative "copying") 2) we value a just distribution of labor (it's not fair for someone to get credit for someone else's hard work). Other considerations: our market economy values individualism; Americans value myth of hard work. katiebda Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:35:29 +0000 january07 notadded ownership plagiarism ontrustteam http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=18083 This article provides a nice summary of the origins & political history of net neutrality. katiebda Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:35:00 +0000 access january07 legislation new frontier notadded ontrustteam white paper