Andy Guess writes in Inside Higher Ed about various ideas that cropped up at the Educause conference – considering tools that students are using, and how/ if those should be incorporated into institutional offering. One example he quoted was Northwestern’s decision to use gmail for their email system. The advantages were that the students were getting…
Month: November 2007
It's the all new Edublog Awards!
The Edublogs are back! This year there are 19 categories – 18 of which you can nominate & then vote for. The presentation this year is going to be in SecondLife – and they’ve got a Virtual World category. There is also a link in the post to the Digizen Awards – about Cyberbullying….
Mistaken Identities…
I’ve just approved a “trackback” (a post that was posted on someone else’s site referring to one of my posts). Curiously, he (or she) thinks I’m called “Longscorner”. But, it’s not just me that has the wrong identity. All the posts (which seem to be culled from RSS feeds) seem to have the wrong original…
Google's OpenSocial.
I’ve already mentioned OpenSocial – which has clearly been attracting a lot of interest. Erik Schonfeld comments on TechCrunch, that no consumers have yet changed their social networking usage. Yet. He goes on to quote Andreesen (from Ning) saying that this will simply make application developers’ lives easier – as they’ll essentially have to develop…
150 years of news.
The Guardian and the Observer have just launched a DigitalArchive At present, they have the Guardian from 1821, the Observer from 1900 – both to 1975. Eventually they’ll have the Observer back to 1791, and both up to 2003. Rather than the current online editions – this is a full archive, adverts and all. The…
"Fiction" meets "real".
ToxicShark is a blog that’s been mentioned several times on the BBC’s Casualty; it’s a blog which is somewhat less than complementary about members of the staff of Holby’s A & E. (The rest of the hospital hasn’t, as yet, come under criticism). I leave you to decide which is “fiction” and which “real”!…
How many social networks…
… can a person keep up with. To support the work I have been doing, over the years, (and, yes it is years) I have created accounts on assorted Social Network sites. I’m now realising the error of not keeping the original confirmation emails. I can’t remember when I first signed up to Facebook, but…
OpenSocial – Google Code
OpenSocial – Google Code has finally been launched. There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING. I’ve not yet had a chance to have an explore. At the moment, they have links to Orkut, (the Social network that…
Facebooking feminism
Kathy Fischer discusses the way that the University of Connecticut Women’s Center has used a Facebook community. Fischer comments that as Facebook allows students to explore their identity, so it fitted well with the ethos of the centre. The ability of users to set levels of privacy was seen as useful, though Fischer realised the…
Facebook envy – Telegraph
Yet another journalist (Nicholas Coleridge, from the Telegraph), looks at Facebook , and, in particular, aspects of friendship. He comments “We have turned into a nation of social-stamp collectors.” At the start of his facebook ventures, Coleridge was adding all offers of friendship – though not actually asking anyone to be a friend. Which more…