The world’s 50 most powerful blogs Several I’ve not heard of, and, perhaps not surprisingly, no ed-tech ones. Oh well. One day!…
Blogging IT and EDucation
Web App Charts
Top Ten WebApps. Several bloggers have pointed to this list of the top ten webapps. Carsonified did a straw poll of about 3,000 colleagues, friends and others round the world in order to create the list. While the top 4 are not in the least surprising; (Gmail, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook); the 5th was perhaps…
How Does the (US) News Shape the Way We See the World
Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy ยป How Does the (US) News Shape the Way We See the World Nice maps, but worrying information. I’m not sure, though, that a survey of UK news would produce anything different – and given the size differences between us……
And in the next 100 years…
Christian Long links to a set of predictions made and published in the Lady’s Home Journal of 1900. Some are surprisingly accurate (e.g. the ability to get a photo from China to a New York Newspaper in under an hour. Others have long been possible (e.g. the ability to get from New York to Liverpool…
Student faces Facebook consequences
Student faces Facebook consequences A student at Ryerson University (Toronto) is facing 147 charges of academic misconduct. 1 for setting up a Facebook group to discuss homework questions, and 1 more for each of the 146 students who contributed. The homework itself contributed 10% to the final grade. The student who set it up originally…
Sexual harassment is rife online….
… No wonder women swap gender. The Guardian reports on a research project at Nottingham Trent showing that 70% of female online gamers select a male avatar. I’d be interested to know what the ratio is on SL. (And, what the number of male gamers selecting a female avatar is)….
Ginger: the new Netvibes
Ginger: the new Netvibes. I’d looked at Netvibes (along with PageFlakes) etc., when I first started using iGoogle. At the time, the main reason for selecting iGoogle was the fact that I could integrate existing google services easily. There was no other real reason – and from what I’ve seen, most are pretty similar. Ginger,…
Pew: Pew Internet Project's Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users
Pew Internet & American Life Project Pew Internet Project’s Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users. So, what are you? I’m an omnivore; and, it seems a little older than your average omnivore!…
"Successful blogging…"
Dan Zarrella has a tool that will take a blog post title, and look at words to see if they’re words that generally increase or decrease the popularity on Digg. Jose Quesada first pointed it out, suggesting that “academic” wasn’t a particularly useful word to have in a title. I’ve tried with a few variants…
Testing iPaper bookmarklet
Tony Hirst has a rather neat bookmarklet generator for iPaper; though I’m still trying to get it to work. I’ve got as far as creating a publisher reference on scribd, but can’t seem to persuade it to work. This is a Powerpoint presentation….