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apophenia: spectacle at Web2.0 Expo... from my perspective
"And then they put it back up and people immediately started swearing. More outbursts and laughter. The Twitter stream had become the center of attention, not the speaker. Not me. "
Why Don’t Teens Tweet? We Asked Over 10,000 of Them | TechCrunch
The implication is that 11% is a small number, but if we look deeper, it turns out that Twitter has a higher concentration of teens than Facebook. You can see in the chart below that Facebook is only 9% teen, so Twitter is actually more teen than Facebook, which rightly has never been perceived as having a “teen problem.” Facebook has so many users that teens just can’t be that large a percentage of the service, by definition.
Steve Wheeler: Teaching with Twitter
Here are some useful links to others who have used Twitter in formal learning
Opening Up the Backchannel with Microblogging (Pedatek)
Excellent collection of links and resources about Twitter - includes critical responses, overviews, how tos and many teaching specific links.
How the brain hardwires us to love Google, Twitter & ... | Slate
How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous.
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Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information.
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While we tap, tap away at our search engines, it appears we are stimulating the same system in our brains that scientists accidentally discovered more than 50 years ago when probing rat skulls.
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Masthead Online Blogs - Magazines Online
Melanie McBride blogged on a similar topic today (and opened a discussion on Twitter). Her question: is it okay for magazines (or other publications) to publish RSS feeds through Twitter (i.e., automated updates)?
Why protect your twitter posts? - Mopsos
Great post form Melanie McBride explaining why her twitter posts are protected. At last someone who raises the privacy issue in a clever way.
[video] Huge Privacy Risk When Using Twitter (GPS based)
Watch as David demonstrates the huge risk to your online privacy by the simple (and seemingly harmless) act of updating Twitter with your location coordinates.
Striking CUPE workers attacked using Twitter: Toronto civic workers strike 09
The protest, which has included the posting of phone numbers of senior union members online, has gone too far, the unions say.
10 Irrational Behaviors on Twitter that'd make you look crazy in Real Life
11 (mine) Eliminating contact with all acquaintances you find boring, annoying, uninteresting or non-amusing - just because the online disinhibition effect emboldens you to defy normal social conventions intended for civility, decorum and diversity of opinion.
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME
Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth.
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In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.
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Twenty years ago, the ideas exchanged in that conversation would have been confined to the minds of the participants.
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(Twitter) Mindcasting: Defining the form, spreading the meme
The act of building an editorial presence in Twitter by filtering, processing and structuring the flow of information that moves through the medium using one’s follow list, journalistic sensibilities and individual right to publish updates.
Magazine Professionals on Twitter: Directory
I created this list to help magazine publishing professionals make sense of Twitter by locating each other more easily.
Twitter: You Can’t Give Us a Feature Then Take it Away #fixreplies
At its heart, this is a control issue: Twitter (Twitter reviews) has determined that it knows what’s best for you. And that feels a little patronizing.
City Brights: Howard Rheingold : Twitter Literacy (I refuse to make up a Twittery name for it)
The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it - on knowing how to look at it.
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You need to hang out for minutes and hours, every day, to get in the groove.
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You are responsible for whoever else's babble you are going to direct into your awareness.
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[emergency resources] Twitter / People CDCemergency follows
I had no idea so many emergency resources were present in Twitter. This is an excellent use of social media for emergency preparedness and public information = WIN for social media as meaningful public/social tool.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Tuning and Feeding: My best practices for getting the most out of Twitter
by "successful," I mean that I gain value — useful information, answers to questions, new friends and colleagues — and that the people who follow me gain value in the form of entertainment, useful information, and some kind of ongoing relationship with me.
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