Release early, bring in the back channel.

fair crit

fast analysis of twitter text in the movement.

Martin Weller discusses how some of the conventions of twitter help users organize their space to support interdiscplinarity. Mentions reasons for retweeting and how hash tags are used.

From the originator of #fuckyouwashington, which created a minor hashblurp. Some thoughts on how the tag functions socially.

Dust off your semiotic analysis hats and take a look at these images of bloggers.

Social media gone sane.

Weller and Groom. State of the academy: " The uptake of new technologies in research and associated practices can be seen as a barometer for innovation within higher education. ... We suggest one possible antidote to this zombification of higher education is the use of new technologies and particularly the cultural norms they embody." Yes, and yes again. Complication arises when the local culture is a Dawn of the Dead shopping mall.

An interesting article nteresting on two counts: the topic amd thesis he's taking (bloggers want to be journos and journos want to be bloggers), and how he's presenting his preparation: crots with commentary that constellate into multiple patterns. Nice.

Good, brief, non-academic article on mind mapping with links.

Love El Reg. This time they whack the Copernicans who preach conversion to an App Universe over the web. Its about The Sharing. But in this case, it's about vendors having to push. "Yes, we're in a transition period where standalone apps make sense. But to believe that "it's an app internet" now and forevermore is crazy talk, and assumes that there's more value in isolation than in connections. In other words, that apps are better than the Internet. They're not. The isolated app model is fundamentally inferior to an open web of connected content and apps, one that is infinitely more shareable and more discoverable. Sure, there's going to be plenty of room for hybrid approaches to web/native apps, and that's healthy."

Short reflection from a participant in CCK11 on bounded forum v open/PLE. Lots of openings into a further consideration here. Lars has found the CMS an anchor, a place where things are structured for him - which is echoed in the comments. Valid point for traditional learning, which doesn't consider the learner cutting the path.

Looks at some affordances in weblogs that enable "a new literacy practice characterised by what Lankshear and Knobel call an “active sociality” (2006: 1). This “active sociality” is exemplified by modes of participation and displays of identity and affiliation that mark it out as significantly different from other forms of textual communication."

A brief article on giving up social media for blogging and letter writing as one way of making the trace of an online life coherent. Places the blog as a space to collect one's thoughts.

What it says on the tin. A bang on bloggy essay (repurposing and demonstration for you en3177 people) on interconnectedness, findability, addressability, and differences between transactional systems and social systems.

Laurie McNeill

a good article for en3177, in part for the subject of discussion but even more for the aggregatating and repurposing the writer's doing. trace the inputs and outputs and diagram how he links it all together. this is learning.

Students organize around and by using social media in the field and after. Sarcasim, demonstrations, Guardian columnists, and blogging.

Some instruction for noobs. Terse in places, a little narrow in others, but it defines one of the safer paths to take while you find your way around. See the apologia, too, if you want to see the culture in action: http://www.quora.com/Lucretia-M-Pruitt/Im-not-the-boss-of-you-Im-not-the-teller-of-you-what-to-do

Crowd-sourced open textbook manifesto in sets of tweets.

Cover your back. For students in Weblogs and Wikis

Looks like it could be a core for a PLE.

Dave Cornier's post announcing the release of the "The MOOC Model for Digital Practice" (qv).  Includes 3 excellent vids on MOOCs, learning in a MOOC, and knowledge in a MOOC. 

He has a point about how the demand for page views changes the manner of content, but "contaminate"? Really? 

Some interesting consideration of how to move the act of once-considered-private reading (annotations, notes, synopses, summaries, responses, discussions) into an online social environment. Ties to aggregate and remix in Downes's frame of a MOOC. Might be good to ease readers into PLE frames and repurposing.

Martin Weller discusses how some of the conventions of twitter help users organize their space to support interdiscplinarity. Mentions reasons for retweeting and how hash tags are used.

From the EFF: a review of students' speech rights in the US. Don't panic. If students really want to trash teachers, they'll do it on Facebook, anyway.

Draft in progress of a taxonomy to start making sense of what reading becomes online. Social practices from annotation to discussion boards to other alternatives.

A couple reflective blogging exercises.

Brian Lamb's latest report on recent gardening efforts at ubc wiki.

Advice for EN3177. Get a plan. Get a market. Get a purpose.

We've turned the corner on scholarly blogging. Next you know, Time will cover it. Some valuable links in this short post. "If scholars are to be truly evaluated on their impact to the field, a blog that fosters healthy debate and discussion, and ideally advances ideas or problems within the field, is a strong indicator of immediate impact. "

Pop piece for Web Content Writing on placing links effectively. Old hat. Nielson was on this years ago, and rhetoricians were suggesting alternatives long before this piece was conceptualized - as the comments on the post point out.

Straightforward advice.

TechCrunch enacting blogging position for addressing scam.

from The Best of Technology Writing 2008

Blogging is less popular among teens than it has been, with social networking sites rising. That can make blogging all the more useful in teaching as it becomes further differentiated as a medium from other media.

Filtering, not remembering. This ups the anti for bloggers.

Just a primer.

End of year, communal reading of FW, social media.

A concise diagram with notes

FLOSSManuals guide to planning and running a booksprint;.

One of the first of doubtless many posts on the rev of the White House web site and new blog. Solid observations about the design and its social/political significance.

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MLA panel on Twitter with David Parry and others,

These bloggers don't see themselves as journalists and don't see themselves as having a 'role'.

Yet, their readerships rival those of many newspapers and they make their livings directly or indirectly from online publications.

Blog on twittering.

Brief look at setting up and using a personal wiki.

A lead in to Annie's session at Amplified08

Annie sums up her observations of reading in motion.

Some techniques based on the characteristics of Twitter and email: spontaneity and impulsiveness.

George Siemens et al

Good list of probably good practices - although there's no evidence of these being *best* practices.

Diagram of two edit and post models.

I, for one, don't really mind being open online. I think that having a blog is one of the best ways of managing your personal brand and controlling your reputation. A blog allows you to write your side of the story -- always. If there was a picture that was posted or comment that was made about you that you didn't approve of or that you want to explain... your blog is the place to do it.

Mainly addressed to librarians, but good for wiki admins and teachers

EFF advice on maintaining control in blogging.