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"What if the mag­a­zine arti­cle of the future, the album of the future, and the novel of the future are all the same thing?

And what if they’re all events?"

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"The School of Life is a new social enterprise offering good ideas for everyday living." Classes on practical philosophy and morality topics in London. Good to see people attempting to build discussion on these topics.

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Articles and timelines on media history

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The social networking site now boasts 250 million users, but has yet to make a single dollar in profit. Five years after its inception, a look at whether it can last another five.

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The business models of social networks could rely on an ignorance towards privacy from their users, experts say. But recent research indicates normal Facebook users have begun altering their privacy settings to control the information people (and potentially advertisers) can see, which could affect the ability of social networks to make money.

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"Facebook will grow their service by allowing people to accrue attention in a way they can’t currently in the system. People will realize the same benefits they currently do on Twitter…you can actually start to have an audience that is larger than your current friends list. In other words, this will allow members of Facebook to have a much larger reach than they could before…thus giving Facebook a larger reach as well."

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Blog from 2007 class.

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Good slideshare on the future of social networks when applied to social reality. Shows both the benefits and the creepy parts. Is there a line at which society will say, "no more?"

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You would think that someday you might find a writer who has heard of Gartner's hype cycle. Journalists look just as silly when they write articles like this as they do when they overhype them in the first place.

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Consider what it means to be "in flow" in an information landscape defined by networked media and you will see where Web2.0 is taking us. The goal is not to be a passive consumer of information or to simply tune in when the time is right, but rather to live in a world where information is everywhere.

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This site is for students and researchers in the study of new media technologies and cultures. It contains links to reading and resources that support, develop, or challenge the ideas and debates set out in the book New Media: a critical introduction.

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LibraryThing page on Life The Movie book. User reviews, tags, suggested recommendations.

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Interview with Dave Maher, Director of Digital Communications at Zehnder about AR and its future capabilities in games.

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"Online Journalism Review aggregated syllabi in 2004, however this list needs to be updated. In an attempt to aggregate this information, I have begun a list of syllabi dedicated to online journalism, online communication and social media. I found that results from Google do not showcase all of the best available syllabi online."

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"There are countless pundits and other tech gurus describing Google Wave as a disappointment, lately. Most of that seems to come from the fact that nobody seems to get what Wave is for. So they compare it to social media."

Nice post on viewing Google Wave from a productivity perspective.

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This is probably the best-looking blog I have ever seen.

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Danny Sullivan has been writing about and explaining forever, so it makes sense that he would write one of the best blog posts on the News Corp. v. Google debate. Well argued and well-linked.

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"In this video he gives a demonstration of how information (often from the web) can be over layed on top of physical locations." ... as if people didn't spend enough time completely immersed in their cellphones.

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Spinvox's service aims to convert voice messages into text messages using advanced speech recognition software. But claims to the BBC suggest that the majority of messages have been heard and transcribed by call centre staff in South Africa and the Philippines.

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Excerpt from the introduction of Karen Armstrong's 2009 book on theology and our concepts about God.

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