Add this to The Horrors of Data Aggregation. from Lori Andrews is a law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law.

George Siemans placing social media (FB, Twitter, g+) in its place. Ephemeral. Distribution. Theres a place for the ephemeral, the emotive, but the considered work is foundational. I was thinking the same thing - even g+ is California - but more as a matter of pace and obligation: g+ and others demand a pace and regularity that I'm just not interested in engaging. Nor are many of my students.

"What has Twitter and Facebook done for me? Nothing, really. Other than perhaps attending to my emotive needs of being connected to people when I’m traveling and whining.
Social media=emotions.
Blogging/writing/transparent scholarship=intellect.
Put another way, Twitter/Facebook/G+ are secondary media."

radical transparency.” In short, Kirkpatrick argues that Zuckerberg believes that people will be better off if they make themselves transparent. Not only that, society will be better off. (We’ll ignore the fact that Facebook’s purse strings may be better off too.) My encounters with Zuckerberg lead me to believe that he genuinely believes this, he genuinely believes that society will be better off if people make themselves transparent

Straightforward advice.

Open University's crowdsourcing / informal learning site. When flickr goes to university.

Given that we are all acting like media now, look at who we trust and how and why.

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.

"Not all social networks are the same.
You cannot assume network transitivity.
You cannot assume that properties that hold for one network apply to other networks.
To address this, I want to begin by mapping out three distinct ways of modeling a social network. These are not the only ways of modeling a social network, but they are three common ways that are often collapsed in public discourse."

Updates and weak ties. Always on means a return to village life, where everyone knows what everyone else is doing. Monitor your online persona so you can control it. "This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting. This was never before possible, because in the real world, no friend would bother to call you up and detail the sandwiches she was eating." "“It drags you out of your own head,” she added. In an age of awareness, perhaps the person you see most clearly is yourself. "

Advice to twitter users during the June 2009 Iran crisis.

Advice for managing contacts and links

How some press gobble up lite research.

This seemed initially pretty tame, but on a second reading, the gatekeeping function of admissions became more ominous.

Report that use of a wiki seemed better among a group who also know each other f2f than for creating new communities.

One of two recent columns on why twitter is a waste of time - the arguments really seem that thin and puritan. It's a diversion from Real Work and Real Contact. Lots of name calling. Lots of fallacies. Little evidence.

Doomsday from the Reg.

Jill's motes on Ling's presentation: His entire presentation, The role of mediated ritual in mobile communication, is online - so you can read the slides yourself - there are a lot of useful statistics and touchpoints. Here are some notes.

shared lists: users socialize more around lists than photos, and use lists for selfrepresentation. video lecture by Werner Geyer.

How to use a wiki as an aggrefator. "We are collecting links to citizen engagement projects and citizen media projects in rural Minnesota, as part of our Rural Voices project" Linking to blogs as well as flickr and delicious. Needs a twitter account.

This is the place where you can download, create and share mobile, location–based media called mediascapes.

By examining what different participants groups do on social network sites, this paper investigates what Friendship means and how Friendship affects the culture of the sites. I will argue that Friendship helps people write community into being in social n

And it's only now, as we're waking up from that collective bender, that we're starting to see the cognitive surplus as an asset rather than as a crisis. We're seeing things being designed to take advantage of that surplus, to deploy it in ways more engagi

Another inappropriate content on facebook news piece

Video + Microblogging = Rich User Experience A news piece announcing use of Seesmic with twitter clients

Over the past few days, much discussion has occurred regarding the nature of Shyftr and its service.

Shyftr is a social RSS reader. Like other RSS readers, Shyftr provides tools for people to aggregate, organize, read, and share RSS feeds they are subscibed to. One extension of this experience is the ability to discuss content that is read.

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While many professors have rushed to meet the age of social networking, there are some who think it is symptomatic of an unfortunate trend, that a professor’s job today is not just to impart knowledge, but to be an entertainer.

A couple of comments on twitter in use, especially to undermine control. There's a social networking practice for you/

Experiment in twittering a conference: " interesting and entertaining experience - highlighted by the potential of some really good "external" audience interaction. Some thoughts"

Thompson takes a romantic pitch at Twitter, stressing its immediacy of publishing over its permanency.

Howard Rheingold's Social Media course on socialtext wiki.

from 2006. The numbers might be shifting a little as social networking becomes more pervasive, or as we widen our senses of what it is to "contribute" and expand the means.

List of social networking articles on JCMC

A Wired Campus blurb by J Young at the Chronicle. The comments provide a xsection of use to get discussions started in E-Rhet.

Negotiating poking and friending iin a power differential.

IM and Facebook supplement email: instant and throwaway support teenage communication styles. Lorenz invents a generation gap.

Libraries look at the long tail.

How looking through bookmarks is a lot like looking through bookshelves. We move from a materiality of books to a social network of bookmarks - both of which are rhetorical affordances of identity. "We arrange books not only for our own conceptual orient

Outsource your network. Auntie Bee reports that social network ghosts can earn £1,000 a month.

More on the social sofware class divide.

A web 2. metafilter, tracking social networking and social practices apps

finds that teens are becoming more savvy about what to post and what not. view the pdf for the full report

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nice, thorough consideration of web 2.0 practices in higher ed

Your life on a timeline.