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The Making of Daliwood - Dalí & Film Comes to the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. PetersburgSalvador Dalí (Spain, 1904-1989), Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937
Weblogs rack up a decade of posts
The word “weblog,” coined on 17 December 1997, commemorated its 10th anniversary on Monday.The word was an abbreviation for the ‘logging’ of interesting ‘web’ sites that John Barger,who coined the word, featured on his regularly updated journal.A decade later, the blog-watching firm, Technorati, tracks more than 70 millions of weblogs.3.2 Billion Dollars Lost to Phishing in 2007
mrneutron2003 brings us FastSilicon's summary of a Gartner survey which found that 3.2 billion dollars were lost in 2007 to phishing scams...2007 Sees Wireless Spending Outstrip Landlines
LACMA Acquires Major Collection of Modern Art, Including Twenty Works By Picasso
"Top 10 Cell Phone Favorites for 2007":
Our cell phone columnist counts down the year's best handsets, Bluetooth headset, and solar-powered charger.
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Featured Reviews
"First Look: Nokia's 5-Megapixel Camera Phone":
With GPS, Wi-Fi, music, video, and a 5-megapixel camera, Nokia's N95 does it all. At $750, it had better.
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Vista Named Year's Most Disappointing Product
Networking Without Borders::The Universal Language of Facebook
It’s been just four short years since a college student named Mark Zuckerberg launched a new social network with a very specific target demographic: American Ivy League college students. Since then, the Facebook phenomenon has exceeded everyone’s expectations. After opening up accessibility to anyone interested in signing up late last year, growth in the U.S. for the social network has been off the charts, with the site currently receiving 65 billion pageviews per month, according to Facebook’s stats....
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Different Countries, Different Habits
Turkey is the country that experienced the highest growth over the period mentioned by Pulver — 465% — and has nearly 2 million users on Facebook. I originally thought that perhaps a high number of English speakers in Turkey could partly explain the appeal of an English-only site for Turks. But I found that many of the Turkish users on Facebook don’t even know English.
Digging Deeper::Your Guide to Hyper-Local News
From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. I’ve already covered blogging, citizen journalism, widgets and other topics. This week I’ll look at hyper-local news....MobileShift::How to Make Smartphones Smarter
The cell phone industry in the United States is at a crossroads. Verizon announced it would open up its networks to other devices, AT&T opened its already-open network and Google has been pushing the carriers to adopt its more open Android platform. Whether any of this makes any sense to you, there’s an obvious trend towards openness by cell phone companies who have been criticized for being so closed.
Guide to Hyper-Local News
MediaShift has a great guide to the various hyper-local news efforts online — from the independent startups to placeblogs to mainstream media efforts. …Beat reporting with a social network
Early Opt-Out'er::6 Reasons I'm Not Hooked on Podcasts
A year ago, Mark wrote about the factors that were limiting the growth of podcast adoption. Some of the problems include the difficulty in finding quality content, a lack of understanding of the medium, and a general impatience in getting podcasts to work. I can relate. Try as I might, I haven’t been able to make podcasts a part of my daily life, and have often asked myself why....
57 Things We Learn from Games
A hardcore gamer? Or know somebody as such? Actually, you can learn alot by gaming. Click on the image to read the funny article from Gamerhelp.com. -Vlad-
More Wikipedia Banning
How do you teach students to be critical users of information? Ban Wikipedia. At least that seems to be the answer for some terribly misguided teachers. One school district has gone so far as to restrict access to the Wikipedia website. Why? Because it is inaccurate...
blogs... or just "the media"?
In the wake of Techmeme's new top 100 Leaderboard site listing, IP Democracy wonders where have all the blogs gone?
Not only does the list include many old media mainstays such as the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, along with top trade publications such as Computerworld, but it is also heavily tilted toward new media "brands" formerly known as blogs such as GigaOm, TechCrunch and Engadget.....All of these sites -- TechCrunch, GigaOm, Engadget, and paidcontent.org, plus many others -- are big deal media concerns, albeit still in their earliest stages of development, backed by venture capital and staffed by professional writers, editors, graphic designers and sales people. Nothing about them says "blogs," if by blog you mean a true web log that reflects an individual's take on a particular topic, or just life in general.
100 Things Bloggers Should Know
William and Rebecca Lehman of DeCloned have a great project going. 100 Things Bloggers Should Know. Each post features a different "thing" accompanied by some great artwork. They're only...The Facebook Generation and the Bebo Boomers
Take part in this batch of presentations about 3D worlds and understanding the Facebook generation over the next hour by leaving a comment here or Twittering me. You can also leave a comment afterwards for the panel and we will respond.
Blogging In Non-Technical Industries
A lot of the information that you’ll find about creating and maintaining a successful blog assumes that readers are tech-savvy and familiar with blogs. It’s very possible that many Daily Blog Tips readers run a blog that targets users in an industry that isn’t so familiar with blogs and related technology. Maybe you even get frustrated that a lot of the information you read isn’t really applicable to your situation. Well, here are some tips to help you blog more effectively in these markets.
Intercises of Cyberspace and Subjectivity
It has become clear to me that the value of this ethnography lies not in my description of experiences, but rather in elucidating the myriad shifting possibilities that emerge in the highly intersubjective field of discourses. As my research has deepened, the one thread that ties these discourses together is the pervasive feelings of anxiety evoked by the blurred boundaries between subject and object, voyeur and exhibitionist, human and machine, reality and imagination. All technologies extend the possibilities of humankind, and in turn, they become humanized and embedded in everyday experiences. However, at times technologies may seem alien and incomprehensible, instigating fear and a sense of powerlessness. The sense of agency felt as one “types oneself into being” through the creation of a publicly viewable online profile can quickly be negated by the discovery that this personal freedom comes with the cost of possible persecution by unintended audiences, such as potential employers and legal authorities. What occurs is a split of selfhood, a temporal shift of identity from intentional author to victimized object of the gaze.Facebook is Evil. Whatever.
The following was initially a comment on danah boyd's recent post discussing Facebook's "slippery slope" of betraying its users, most recently with Project Beacon. Please share your thoughts if you have them!The State of Facebook
Greg Lindon and Dare Obasanjo are continuing the conversation about Facebook Beacon. One thing is for sure: bloggers are not quiet people! They are also frequently intelligent people that know what they are talking about. That’s especially the case with Dare Obasanjo. Dare thinks that the updates to Beacon are still not sufficient.
Facebook Listens to the Blogosphere
There has been a ton of buzz surrounding Beacon over the past couple weeks. Last night I briefly ranted about Facebook not responding to the noise. Initially, they may have perceived it as only being chatter among bloggers. As soon as I heard that brands were beginning to become hesitant about advertising on Facebook due to the negative PR, I realized that the issue had spilled over into the mainstream.
Facebook responds to privacy concerns, but some still remain
From StopBadware.org...Social networking site Facebook has been on the defensive lately for a variety of poor privacy and dislosure related decisions about its Beacon application. Beacon, which is turned on by default for Facebook users, allows users to update their Facebook news feed with information about recent purchases and other activities on third party web sites, such as Blockbuster.com, Overstock.com, and Epicurious.com.....
Google Knol
by Philipp Lenssen
“Knol”, just announced a the official Google blog, is a currently private, invitation-only knowledge sharing service. Google says that a Knol is a “unit of knowledge,"* and in the style of the old-school About.com website, experts are invited to the service to write an introductory article on a subject of their expertise. Google wants to provide all the tools to write this, and host the content and so on, so that experts can focus just on the content. Then, ad revenues those pages generate can be shared.
Digging Deeper::Your Guide to Virtual Worlds
From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. I’ve already covered blogs, social networking, widgets and various other topics. This week I’ll look at the growing phenomenon of virtual worlds....
The Pew Internet Project released a new report today on Teens and Social Media. The report is available at
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/230/report_display.asp
More teens are creating and sharing material on the internet ---
28% of online teens have blogs and blogging growth is almost entirely fueled by girls
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Super communicators rise as email fades as a communication tool for teens....
Science Commons Protocol
It’s been a long time since I’ve had much of an opportunity to blog, or digest many of the important developments that have been taking place in the world of open access and open science.
First off, I had the pleasure of attending the Creative Commons 5th anniversary party. Besides enjoying myself, it was a great chance to reflect on how far Creative Commons has come. Millions of people and sites using their licenses, important projects in Science and Education, and continuing and growing buzz and energy.
Creative Commons made some recent announcements at the party and after that are important for archaeologists and for our planning for cyber-infrastructure. Here’s an update:
An open access case study
The current issue of the journal Games and Culture is running an article I’ve written with the scarily erudite Kate Lingley. The topic is fear of video game addiction and mental illness in China, and it appears in a special themed issue on gaming in East Asia. If you want to read the other articles in the journal and your library doesn’t subscribe to Games and Culture, you will have to ILL them or pay US$15 to download a PDF. If you want to read my article, however, you can download it for free or even check out the preprint on Mana’o. Let me take this as a case study in open access…
Digging Deeper::When Will Google's 'Big Project' YouTube Bring in Profits?
In its brief 22-month history, video-sharing site YouTube has become a cultural phenomenon. The Iraq War has been called the “YouTube War” because of the videos that are regularly uploaded by soldiers and insurgents. The upcoming U.S. presidential race has been called the “YouTube Election” with its own “YouTube Debates” thanks to the questions for candidates uploaded by the YouTube community of amateur video producers.
