how danah gathers her news

Release early, bring in the back channel.

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.

Finally. Let's hope it's the first of many.

A how to: " How do we:
Connect the dots between our worlds in a way that propels us forward without overwhelming us with technology?
Shine a light on who we really are, but protect our identities and right to privacy?

Perhaps too minimal.
Share with the world, but only what’s appropriate for the world to see?

I say the simplest answer is to find the bonds that already exist and focus on them until they define us, ignoring the rest. Here’s how I do that. Take what works for you and leave the rest.

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.

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 complete history of the Wikipedia article on the Iraq War (the second one) in XII volumes, printed. We *so* need a semiotics of writing. "Four years later, we don't yet have the tools that would let people read Wikipedia articles in "a new way" but hopefully Bridle's very impressive experiment with this one article will spur efforts to develop new tools for reading online works which are constantly being changed and edited."

Covering organization, access, frequency, substance, archiving, and assessment

Stephen Downes on what decorum becomes when run through an organization. Good teaching tool? Not so much. The principle behind the decorum is CYA rather than Do No Harm or Show Practical Wisdom.

Optimistic photo- and voice essay on how to see.

Some profs using this as an incentive. I prefer my good and evil fully baked.

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.

A BOOK CROWDSOURCED IN ONE WEEK MAY 21-28, 2010. A little thin. More like an academic magazine than a multigraph.

A brief look at how text that can circulate through the web creates more value than text locked in boxes- the problem starts when we're limited in what we can circulate, whether by lack of copy and paste or rights restrictions. Starts with commonplaces books as web snippets and rests the argument on that practice. "A single piece of information designed to flow through the entire ecosystem of news will create more value than a piece of information sealed up in a glass box." "When text is free to flow and combine, new forms of value are created, and the overall productivity of the system increases. " The

Straightforward advice.

Looks at lifelogging. Takes on some pocketbook psychology, but discusses the trend and some practice well.

Light weight observations on social media, ending with the inevitable "it all depends" "There is no single right or wrong way to assimilate “social speak” into our lives and work — it all depends upon your own time and tolerance, your setting, your colleagues, and even the image you want to project. For better or for worse, though, we are all in a new world of communications — and most of us will have to learn the new language."

When elearning becomes something other than DE - and they are proud of it.

"The order of things in broadcast is "filter, then publish." The order in communities is "publish, then filter." If you go to a dinner party, you don't submit your potential comments to the hosts, so that they can tell you which ones are good enough to air before the group, but this is how broadcast works every day. Writers submit their stories in advance, to be edited or rejected before the public ever sees them. Participants in a community, by contrast, say what they have to say, and the good is sorted from the mediocre after the fact."

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

Light reading for FYC. Assignment: List five ways you could revise the menu to make even more profit - without alienating diners. Extra points for emerging with your ethos intact.

A close and thorough look at three or four ways of analyzing and grouping students. Opens up a general critique of the method and those who base their assumptions and actions on the results. Valuable for FYC.

""There's this expectation that your No. 1 job is to pander to this exotic alien consumer," says Mr. Vaidhyanathan, an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. "At that point, you cease being a teacher and you are simply selling yourself to an audience that might not be interested in buying.""

says Mr. Vaidhyanathan. "Generational thinking is just a benign form of bigotry, in which you flatten out diversity. This is debilitating to the job of trying to work with young people."

"Some folks are using this as a template and a cookbook," Mr. Bonner says of Millennials descriptions. "It makes it very difficult to see and understand variations because people who don't fit the recipe may be viewed as outliers. That anesthetizes nuances."

FLOSSManuals guide to planning and running a booksprint;.

Brief news report, but the comments sketch out some uses and perspectives.

Yet another social media exchange. Similar to a wiki page in that comments and layers are associated with the specific target. Unlike a wiki and more like a blog in that the target itself is not modified but layered. But the layering is interesting. It means that a target can have different sets of commentary and notes: a different story for the same diegesis, different emphases of the same ground ...

University of Reading. "In an environment where there are many ways to publish material quickly and easily, such as social networking sites ... and all manner of other ways of expressing yourself on the web, people can find that they have their 'web presence' spread across multiple sites. What's more, other people might post something about you without you knowing about it - and it might be done quite innocently.

We are developing a number of short exercises and learning materials to help people think about what sorts of issues there are about DI."

http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0010.305. A consideratio of CommentPress and new practices in academic publishing

"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."

List of faculty at Marquette who are using twitter for classes and why. The usual reasons and uses. One warning to limit personal exchanges.

A defense of academic blogging

Story of how a Lego-Geek lost and then found his iPhone in Chicago. A good story well told.

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

A PR piece version of Rhetoric 101. Useful and revealing for the language the authors use to frame their version of social exchange - even while they hold themselves up as non-experts.

"People aren’t lured into relationships simply because you cast the bait to reel them into a conversation.

"Sincerity extends beyond the mere act of creating a profile on Twitter or forming a fan page on Facebook or a group on LinkedIn. The dual definition of transparency serves very different forms of both genuine and hollow separated by intent and impression. Relationships are measured in the value, action, and sentiment that others take away from each conversation. Talking “at” or responding without merit, intelligence, or quality grossly underestimates the people you’re hoping to befriend and influence.

"If participation were this simple, then perhaps everyone would excel as a Social Media “expert.”'

Paper persists owing to useful affordances. Easy review of a couple of books, c 2002.

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

Sunir Shah's project: " to collect and annotate resources of interest to the human-computer interaction, social-computing, participatory design and information systems design communities. Essentially people who are concerned about computers in a human context. "

From a marketing and heavily invested perspective.

A good post about switching.

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

After New York University journalism student Alana Taylor wrote her first embed report for MediaShift on September 5, it didn’t take long for her scathing criticism of NYU to spread around the web and stir conversations.

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.

Traci Gardner on uses of twitter in courses: "It's like proprioception, your body's ability to know where your limbs are. That subliminal sense of orientation is crucial for coordination:"

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.

a style of meeting that can foster collaboration and be supported by wikis, or by stickies and markers. Defines a fairly well-orchestrated rhetorical situation for collaborative compostion

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

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.

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

A superlative resource for Participatory stuff: weblogs, wikis, RSS, social bookmarking. Howard Rheingold

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

Transliteracy might provide a unifying perspective on what it means to be literate in the twenty–first century. It is not a new behavior but has only been identified as a working concept since the Internet generated new ways of thinking about human comm

the novel? Can a collective create a believable fictional voice? How does a plot find any sort of coherent trajectory when different people have a different idea about how a story should end – or even begin? And, perhaps most importantly, can writers re

Nice blog post about how hugh sees and sets his use permissions. See the work as social object rather than hoarded possession and you change the relationship between object and viewer, object and creator

It would be nice if all students wrote essays in their spare time, but Pew tells us that only 8 percent do. Nearly all of them, however, use text and instant messaging, so if the far shore turns out to be a chat room, then we should start teaching critica

John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler social learning is based on the premise that our understanding of content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or

when
using platforms most frequently positioned in leisure-based environments, institutional and ideological blockages
to creating a successful learning experience and scholarly environment.

Another inappropriate content on facebook news piece

Wesch's videos

"A few prominent bloggers have, of late, been talking about the move away from the blogosphere. " The blog doesn't have monopoly on social attention.

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.

Cut through the cruft and clever yrations and Doctorow has a small point to make: the constrained social connections of FB aren't enough to warrant attention.

Content problems. Community Problems, Leadership problems, Technical problems ... While WikiPatterns suits the business perspective, Meatball is still the upstream source of thinking about wikis

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.

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.

Review of NetNewsWire that has extra interest in *how* and *where* and *when* Shawn uses it.

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

Miln - abstract to come

Libraries look at the long tail.

A gentle reminder that applies even more in SL