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Brand bullying growing, warn teachers | Education | The Guardian
"Almost half of the teachers questioned said young people who cannot afford the fashionable items owned by their friends have been excluded, isolated or bullied as a result."
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Our Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
Their findings: Our privacy principles are wobbly. We are more or less likely to open up depending on who is asking, how they ask and in what context.
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The Attention Economy: An Overview - ReadWriteWeb
Another key ingredient of the Attention Economy is privacy. The challenge is not just to protect consumers information, the challenge is to put the user in control of her information.
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louisgray.com: As I Get Older, Some Online "Friending" Gets Creepier
"At my old age of 31, were I to be a "real world" friend of any 20 year old girl, people should be asking questions. If I were palling around with some 14 year-old boy geek, they would be asking other questions."
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The Wall-E Theory | ill doctrine
I did find it interesting how it approached environmental issues, in a way that basically left class -and race- off the table.. especially since race and class are so often left off the table when the environment is discussed.
more fromwww.illdoctrine.com
Colleges fake diversity through advertising :: Inside Higher Ed
Sociologists studied college advertising photoshopped to include non-existent cultural and social diversity. In some cases, pictures of black students were simply added to make the college look more inclusive than it actually was.
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Cautionary notes on social media | Howard Rheingold's Vlog
Whenever people refer me to pseudo-critics of social media, I refer them to Fred Turner or to Trebor Scholz, who actually know something about what they are criticizing
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The 23 Types of Social Media Users
Here are the 23 types of social media users - Which one are you?
more fromwww.kylehealey.com
[SURVEY] Social Media and us: The impact of social media on our relationships
How does your significant other/family member/friend/partner feel about your social media use? I created this survey for them to share their thoughts - positive, negative and neutral - about your social media use. It's time we talked. Will share results
more fromwww.polldaddy.com
Attention Must Be Paid - Shifting Careers - Small Business - New York Times Blog
The greatest casualty of our mobile, high-tech age is attention. By fragmenting and diffusing our powers of attention, we are undermining our capacity to thrive in a complex, ever-shifting world.
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[video] Justice | Stress (warning: graphic violence)
Reminiscent of the 1995 film La Haine, Stress, a music video by French electro house band Justice, makes the viewer complicit in the act of engaging in the crime. But the real crime is your complicity in a culture of social inequity.
more fromwww.dailymotion.com
/Message: Plurk: Looking In All The Wrong Places
The question is: are these features the ones that meet the unmet needs of some community of users out there? I bet not.
more fromwww.stoweboyd.com
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Social Networks 1% rule or The Community Pyramid
What is the social network 1% rule? Generally in a group of 100 people online, one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or adding to it) and the other 89 will just view it.
more fromdondodge.typepad.com
Gang Signs of Los Angeles | The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century : Joey deVilla’s Personal Blog
"Whether you’re entering a freestyle rap battle in Compton or just trying to “keep it real” in your suburb, be sure you know these gang signs!"
more fromwww.joeydevilla.com
Who are the griefers? - Second Life Insider [must read for SL noobs]
"A griefer, is generally accepted as a person who derives enjoyment from being obstructive, diminishing the enjoyment of others"
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Who Should I Follow? | Twitter Friend Recommendations
Why on earth would you defer a social choice to a bot based on no more criteria than popularity and location. This is my question in a culture of increasing deference to authority, popularity and hype.
more fromwww.whoshouldifollow.com
Delicious 2.0 News Finally Comes To New York
The real question is when this will actually launch. We were teased in January on the delicious blog but the promised update never happend. Now it’s March and Yahoo is still silent on the issue. WHEN, I say? WHEN?
more fromwww.techcrunch.com
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Urban food deserts in major cities
Food deserts are areas where people have low or no access to food shops. In other words, they are neighborhoods with low average home incomes and poor access to healthy food
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Revenge is a dish best served ... online | Technology | The Observer
Are we surprised that the collective unconcious of the internet is pathological? Symptom: 'e-venge'
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More From America's Worst Mom | Huffington Post
My vision of the world, especially childrearing, turns out to be starkly at odds with the mainstream one, which believes that the world (especially New York) is chock-a-block with extras from "Saw III."
more fromwww.huffingtonpost.com
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