Daniel J. Solove’s “The Future of Reputation”

The Future of Reputation is an interesting overview of what is happening to humans today as we become more and more enmeshed in our communications technology and culture. Solove says:
In the past, oral gossip could tarnish a reputation, but it would fade from memories over time. People could move elsewhere and start anew. The printed [...]

Tipping Towards Brevity

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My (New) Blogging Pattern
I used to try and blog once or twice a week - and felt badly if I failed to keep my blog current. My earliest blogs were long ruminations, almost essays, using academically correct formatting and referencing. I actually kept two, sometimes three blogs, trying to keep my professional, academic, [...]

Web Use Research

If you have 2 or 3 minutes available, help out a researcher, Dan Zarrella, by answering his survey - http://www.polldaddy.com/survey.aspx?id=edd7004ad2c1de47 When he reports the results, I’ll link to them from this blog.
A small additional suggestion, the image above was created using Skitch - http://skitch.com/ . I really recommend it for ease of grabbing and sharing [...]

We Think - In the 21st Century

This is a great little video talking about our new communication tool, the web, and how it changing us. The video also demonstrates how using simplicity can really add to communication.
With thanks to Julie Lindsay who shared it on Twitter, and Charles Leadbeater who created it

Social Maps: How the Digital People Keep Connected

This video by Loic Lemeur is intimidating, inspiring and irritating.

Intimidating because he has such wide ranging use of the social media;
Inspiring because I get some idea what I want to spend more time with; and
Irritating because it pauses every few seconds and you have to wait for it to go on.

found through my Bloglines - [...]

Want a Website? Try a Wiki!

It seems to me that for teachers and entrepreneurs, one of the most useful, and the easiest, web2.0 applications is the wiki. Many people who are new to web2.0 aren’t sure what a wiki is. It is an interactive website that can be edited without using HTML, just by using a set of icons, [...]

Using the Web in Schools - Two Solitudes

Recently I posted a comment on a blog and checked off the little box that okays email notification every time a comment is added. The blog post is on Will Richardson’s Weblog-ed: learning with the read/write web and it is an urgent call for educators, aka teachers, to get more knowledgable about the web [...]

Creating Stories in a Comics Format

I’ve been playing with a new web application called Comiqs and I can see it being used for school assignments or for brief, visual manuals. Here are a couple of examples I whipped up in 20 to 30 minutes each, which is slow, because I was learning to use the application at the same time;->
First, [...]

Has the Computer and the Web Changed Writing?

I was at a session for writing instructors today; we were discussing whether we could actually teach students how to edit their writing. As we talked about our various approaches, I remembered the room I boarded in my last year as an undergrad. I remembered how small it was and how the roof sloped over [...]

Tagging - For Organizing Information

One of the most important aspects of the web today is a way of organizing information called tagging (or, on Blogger, labelling). You could say that tagging is the child of alphabetical indexing - a post-Gutenberg information management invention - and hyperlinking - a web networking development. You can see what this looks like in [...]