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Sentence of the Week - University of Chicago Writing Program
Academic sentence of the week - fixed by the University of Chicago Writing Program
Swine flu website overwhelmed by demand as new cases double in a week | World news | The Guardian
Open Source and Social Media: Community, Collaboration, Freedom
To most people, the term "open source" immediately conjures an image of two geeks sitting in a dark room (probably a basement) -- curtains drawn, McDonald's remains strewn across the desk, and 42 oz sodas within arms' reach -- coding away at their computers, listening to Linkin Park or a game soundtrack. People automatically associate it with endless lines of code, back-end technology, server rooms, computer science labs, and experimental (read: unsafe and buggy) technology.
In reality, open-source software provides stable solutions, created by people and for people and used by companies of all sizes. Use Firefox? That's open-source software. Google Chrome? It too is based on an open-source code. Ever look up a term on Wikipedia? The site is completely built on user-generated code and content. "In fact," says Allison Randal, Program Chair of OSCON, "chances are you're using a lot more open-source software than you know: on your computer or powering you favorite websites."
With the Open Source Convention (OSCON) set to take over San Jose tomorrow, we'll provide a glimpse here of open source in layman's terms and the potential intersection of open source and social media.
Social Network Users Reportedly Concerned about Privacy but Behavior Says Otherwise
According to their survey, a majority of users (78%) reported concerns about their social network profiles' privacy, but when asked about specific behaviors it was apparent that "concern" didn't translate into action. In fact, it didn't even seem to translate into a basic understanding of how to use the privacy tools already in place on the networks today.
Social networking - digizen.org
Becta report which specifically look at Social Networking in Education:
"Young People and Social Networking Services"
The project is designed to investigate how social networking services can and are being used to support personalised formal and informal learning by young people in schools and colleges.
timeEdition - time management
timeEdition simplifies the work involved in entering your time data, while at the same time ensuring that incorrect time data cannot be input. For example, forgetting to stop recording when you stop performing the activity is not a problem: timeEdition stops recording automatically as per your setting for the freely definable period of user inactivity. This means that if there is no input via either the mouse or the keyboard for a specific period, timeEdition automatically stops recording.
A further core function of timeEdition is its close links to popular calendar applications. timeEdition works perfectly with Apple's iCal, Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar. The software lets you automatically transfer your time records into any one of these calendar applications. You retain an overview of work you have performed, even in retrospect.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Privacy fears over Google tracker
Google has announced a new feature that allows users to share their locations among a chosen network of friends.
The "opt-in" Latitude service uses data from mobile phone masts, GPS, or wi-fi hardware to update a user's location automatically.
Users can also manually set their advertised location anywhere they like, or turn the broadcast off altogether.
Victor Keegan on the Twitter phenomenon | Technology | The Guardian
What have Barack Obama, Andy Murray, Downing Street and Britney Spears got in common? Not a lot. Except they all use twitter.com as a means of instant communication. Twittering is on a roll, even being mentioned on primetime television. Wherever I go in the social-networking community, it is rampant - everyone seems to be exchanging short messages about anything from breakfast, breaking news, a new website, to participating in a conference remotely. Israel used it as part of its Gaza war propaganda machine. For my colleagues in Technology Guardian, it has become almost a life-support machine. Yet when I move out into the rest of the world, hardly anyone has even heard of it. So what's going on?
Who Is This Person? :: Firefox Add-ons
Could be so useful for helping to critically evaluate web sources during web research
7 Things You Should Know About... | ELI | EDUCAUSE
Useful brief overviews of some of the main web 2.0 technologies being used / potentially used in education
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