Two points here: Nixty social couse management software that leverages profs, and "the fact is that most people who can afford to go to college in the US want the experience of actually going to college. Those of us who would love to go back to college but don’t have the time to take off from careers or raising families, could use Nixty, but the problem is what I call the “Rosetta Stone dilemma.” I love Rosetta Stone’s software, and I think the approach to learning languages works – but the bottom line is there’s no short cut to the hours you need to put in to really learn a language fluently and I just don’t have those hours."

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.

Howard Rheingold's Social Media course on socialtext wiki.

List of social networking articles on JCMC

Miln - abstract to come

More on the social sofware class divide.

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

Well, yeah. Mostly a reiteration of _Naked Converations_ in brief form.

An academic library's use of del tagging to gather starting research sources for users. Collections like these might become part of the library's role. Librarians, after all, are highly skilled at creating collections and entry points.

18th ACM conference, Manchester, UK. Hypertext and Society thread is of special interest.

seeing wikis and teaching with wikis as challenging the print literacy grounding of teaching. worthy of more study

blogspot

superb intro to delicious. also a good example of a coursecast/screencast

Your life on a timeline.

Pew Internet/American Life report. "The main reasons for keeping a blog are creative expression and sharing personal experiences.
The majority of bloggers cite an interest in sharing stories and expressing creativity. Just half say they are trying to inf

"we quickly discovered limitations inherent in the software, which does not allow community participation in the organization of content. Programs like Flickr, created primarily as collection, storage, and sharing facilitators, do not set up useful "

good list of new trends to look at

OV of social software (wiki, tagging et al)