http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/trustteam Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/viegas.html From 2005, an interesting contextual framing of blogging trustteam Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:19:02 +0000 blogs privacy trust http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/arts/music/23assa.html?ref=arts On one hand, virtually anyone can start broadcasting songs online; on the other, if regulations are set up early enough, these new broadcasters present a much-needed revenue stream. trustteam Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:24:47 +0000 participation internet radio participatory culture http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/arts/television/23stan.html?ref=arts&pagewanted=all Before the Internet, iPhones and flash drives, people jousted over who was into the Pixies when they were still a garage band or who could most lengthily argue the merits of Oasis versus Blur. Now, for all but hardcore rock aficionados, one-upmanship is more likely to center around a television series... trustteam Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:22:23 +0000 media tv television identity affinities culture http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/09/23/the_advantages_of_amnesia?mode=PF From the Internet to the iPod, technology is bringing rapid advances in memory. What society needs now are new ways to forget. trustteam Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:19:44 +0000 technology cognition memory ipod http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-mcleod18sep18,0,6559406.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail Over the last year, alleged psychic Uri Geller and his business associate have successfully removed many of these clips from the Web by charging that they violate his copyrights. In the 13-minute NOVA program, Geller only claims ownership of eight seconds, yet that was enough for him to file a "takedown" demand with YouTube, using ...the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. trustteam Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:35:27 +0000 youtube copyright dmca fair use http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6993739.stm Online virtual worlds could soon be accessible to blind people thanks to research by students at IBM in Ireland. trustteam Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:00:37 +0000 gaming participation second life http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1675/the_academics_speak_is_there_life_.php Each of the five academics interviewed added a unique flavor to these questions of how players move, where single player fits into the picture, and the kinds of games that we’ll be migrating to in the future. While ‘gamer tribes’ weren’t the only thing seen as dragging along gamers, many of these scholars agreed on the importance of people. trustteam Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:56:45 +0000 games trends http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Search/858884.html They used the Internet to encourage people to wear pink and bought 75 pink tank tops for male students to wear. They handed out the shirts in the lobby before class last Friday — even the bullied student had one. INTERNET USED TO STOP BULLYING OFFLINE. trustteam Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:46:40 +0000 youth ethics http://www.slate.com/id/2173910 So, there I was: old enough to remember Voltron, beer in hand, sitting with my laptop, surrounded by (presumed) preteens. Club Penguin plopped me in the town center. Forty or so birds were milling about. Some were dancing, others throwing snowballs. As I gazed upon this scene, I remembered something that I had once read: If your body could stay the same as it was at 12, you would live for hundreds of years. But what about your mind? What if it stayed locked at 12? Club Penguin offers that deeply trippy experience. trustteam Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:00:00 +0000 games youth trends participation http://www.slate.com/id/2173912/fr/rss/ To educate myself—and to find out what the target audience for these sites really thinks of them—I organized a focus group of five sixth-graders, all 11 years old. I set up two laptops and let the kids show me their favorites. At times the project seemed like a demonstration for a gender studies class with the boys at one computer, the girls at another. Anna, a budding sociologist, explained, "Most sites for girls are an online world—it's socializing. For boys, it's gaming." trustteam Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:52:20 +0000 youth trends games http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9777376-36.html?part=rss Now, it's official: a release from MySpace has confirmed that Quarterlife will debut on its MySpaceTV platform on November 11. A project of Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, who created the TV shows My So-Called Life and Thirtysomething in addition to Blood Diamond, the new Web show will follow the lives of six people in their 20s and "chart the sometimes excruciating, sometimes comic, often emotional experiences that comprise coming of age as a part of the digital generation." trustteam Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:37:09 +0000 myspace media youth http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/technology/10facebook.html?ex=1347076800 The social networking site Facebook from afar can look a lot like college, with cliques and the familiar range of personalities. In another imitation of college life, the Facebook campus is wrestling with the contentious issue of speech codes. trustteam Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:11:01 +0000 facebook social networking participation http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/09/09/make-love-not-warcraft-wins-emmy/ The South Park WoW episode: "Make Love, Not Warcraft" won the Creative Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour). AF: It is pretty funny--if you haven't seen it:) trustteam Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:35:31 +0000 gaming world of warcraft http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/09/ff_facebook Photo: Emily Shur He didn't have much choice but to sell. It was summer 2006, a little more than two years after Mark Zuckerberg had created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room as a way for him and his friends to better connect with schoolmates. In the intervening years, he'd raised $37.7 million from venture capitalists and transformed his modest Web site into a certified social phenomenon. trustteam Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:51:54 +0000 social networking facebook youth http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/09/our_public_livespeople_search.html The open marketplace seems to exacerbate the situation, with “people search” sites on one side hawking the idea of finding old friends and classmates, while privacy protectors sell you the chance to delete your data. What we don’t have is a standard privacy policy that actually protects the data you give out to so many companies and social networking sites. trustteam Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:37:53 +0000 privacy identity internet