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25 Sep 09

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25 Jun 09

ongoing · The Internet’s Payload

"It turns out that the first time I read the piece, I guess Scoble was in the middle of that WordPress rejiggering, and there was no apparatus down the right at all; just the headline and the stream of link-rich, thought-rich, text. I really liked it. I was seeing, I thought, the core message getting the focus and respect it deserved, that’s all.

I am arguing that:

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Words are more valuable than pictures.
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Text is more valuable than audio or video.
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Twitter is more valuable than FriendFeed.

At the end of the day, how could this not be true? Social networking gives me the warm-and-fuzzies and YouTube shows me what happened today in Iran, but action only comes from understanding and understanding only comes from explanation and explanation only happens in words."

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22 Jun 09

With Iran crisis, Twitter's youth is over | The Social - CNET News

"Up to this point, much of the hype about Twitter's use in crises and disasters (as well as political events like elections) has been how quickly it can spread raw eyewitness reports, sort of the ultimate center for participatory "citizen journalism." There was the U.S. Airways incident in January, in which a photograph posted with Twitter app TwitPic was one of the first close-up looks at the emergency landing of a passenger jet in the Hudson River. When a wave of terror attacks sent the Indian city of Mumbai into chaos, many turned to Twitter for the most immediate information available.

In the aftermath of the contested Iranian elections, however, it's been Twitter's potential as a communications medium, rather than simply a source of up-to-the-minute news, that has been front and center. It's usurped Facebook as the social-media tool in the spotlight. The U.S. Department of State even requested that the company reschedule a planned outage so that it would be less likely to disrupt the flow of information coming from Iran."

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18 Jun 09

Joshua Kucera - New World Order - What if Twitter is leading us all astray in Iran? - True/Slant

These are just a handful of data points that have been shooting around the Internet, via Twitter or the opposition-friendly blogs. And all have been instrumental in building a public opinion case against the Iranian government for undercounting the support for Mousavi.

The problem is, none of them appear any longer to be true. The crowd was in the hundreds of thousands, most newspapers reported. Mousavi’s own wife said he wasn’t under house arrest Sunday, and Monday he appeared in person at the protest. And if the president of the election monitoring commission has gone over to the opposition, no serious reporter has reported it.

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NPR: Which Tweets From Iran Are True?

But who can tell what's reliable and what isn't on Twitter? It's impossible to know even if what you're reading was actually written by people in Tehran or elsewhere in Iran, especially since there's a movement for as many people in the Twittersphere to use the Iranian capital as their location a là "I'm Spartacus" to make it harder for Iranian censors to stop tweets that are actually from Iran.

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27 May 09

Langwitches » Don’t Believe Everything You See Online

Why is our first impulse to believe something that we see, read or hear? Especially if it is in print, online or comes in an “officially” looking packaging?

How do we teach ourselves and our students, that another impulse has to follow the first one immediately: Evaluate…critical thinking… learn to listen for and to your own “gut feeling”… cross referencing…

Information literacy is an important part of being literate. Being able to know how to read and write alone, just doesn’t “cut it anymore”.

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22 May 09

CEL | Daniel Goleman - Ecological Intelligence

…Ecological intelligence allows us to comprehend systems in all their complexity, as well as the interplay between the natural and man-made worlds. But that understanding demands a vast store of knowledge, one so huge that no single brain can store it all. Each one of us needs the help of others to navigate the complexities of ecological intelligence. We need to collaborate.

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…Ecological intelligence allows us to comprehend systems in
all their complexity, as well as the interplay between the natural and
man-made worlds. But that understanding demands a vast store of knowledge,
one so huge that no single brain can store it all. Each one of us needs
the help of others to navigate the complexities of ecological intelligence.
We need to collaborate.
- This applies to informaiton in general. - on 2009-05-23
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But the ecological abilities we need in order to survive
today must be a collective intelligence, one that we learn and master
as a species, and that resides in a distributed fashion among far-flung
networks of people.
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- As a group we need to learn what dangers we face, what their causes are,
  and how to render them harmless, on the one hand, and, on the other,
  to see the new opportunities these solutions offer — and we need the collective
  determination to do all this.
- A collective, distributed intelligence spreads awareness, whether among
  friends or family, within a company, or through an entire culture. Whenever
  one person grasps part of this complex web of cause and effect and tells
  others, that insight becomes part of the group memory, to be called on
  as needed by any single member. Such shared intelligence grows through
  the contributions of individuals who advance that understanding and spread
  it among the rest of us. And so we need scouts, explorers who alert us
  to ecological truths we have either lost touch with or newly discover.
  - Sounds a lot like what happens in the edublogging group. - on 2009-05-23
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- The art of working together effectively, as
  mastered by a star performing team, combines abilities like empathy
  and perspective taking, candor and cooperation, to create person-to-person
  links that let information gain added value as it travels. Collaboration
  and the exchange of information are vital to amassing the essential
  ecological insights and necessary database that allow us to act for the
  greater good.
- When it comes to our collective ecological goals, the swarm rules might
  boil down to:
  
  Know your impacts.
  Favor improvements.
  Share what you learn.
- No one of us needs to
  have a master plan or grasp all the essential knowledge. All of us will
  be pushing toward a continuous improvement of the human impact on nature.
  - I think this has implications for the education movement as well. There is no one size fits all plan for education. Just like we have our own individualized pd plans that we can build for ourselves now. We can all do continuous improvement now. - on 2009-05-23
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16 Feb 09

The Future of Reading - In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update - Series - NYTimes.com

Ms. Rosalia, 54, is part of a growing cadre of 21st-century multimedia specialists who help guide students through the digital ocean of information that confronts them on a daily basis. These new librarians believe that literacy includes, but also exceeds, books.

Some of these new librarians teach children how to develop PowerPoint presentations or create online videos. Others get students to use social networking sites to debate topics from history or comment on classmates’ creative writing. Yet as school librarians increasingly teach students crucial skills needed not only in school, but also on the job and in daily life, they are often the first casualties of school budget crunches.

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05 Feb 09

Fake websites and spoof websites; evaluating internet resources using false websites

All of the following websites are, to the best of my knowledge fake sites, spoof sites or parodies of 'real' sites. This is by no means a complete collection, nor should it be regarded as definitive. I have tried when possible to indicate if the site is suitable for minors, or if it contains material which viewers may find offensive. However, it is your responsibility to gauge the appropriateness or otherwise of the sites yourself, particularly if you intend to use them for educational purposes.
Sites are arranged in subject groupings, with what I consider to be the most credible examples at the top; hopefully this will help when you come to choose examples for yourself or students.

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07 Jan 09

Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I : CJR

If you took the contents of an average Barnes and Noble, and you dumped it into the streets and said to someone, “You know what’s in there? There’s some works of Auden in there, there’s some Plato in there. Wade on in and you’ll find what you like.” And i

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What it has done, instead, is brought back reading and writing as a normal activity for a huge group of people.
Many, many more people are reading and writing now as part of their daily experience. But, because the reading and writing has come back without bringing Tolstoy along with it, the enormity of the historical loss to the literary landscape caused by television is now becoming manifested to everybody. And I think as people are surveying the Internet, a lot of what they’re doing is just shooting the messenger.
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- But, the deep effects seem to me to be that when people are given media that isn’t interactive, they invent their own interactions around it.
- What is quite obviously happening is that the number of things that are available for short attention are increasing. But, so is the ability to consume complicated, long-form information. I think the fact that Nate Silver’s site in the recent election—Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com—became a breakout hit was a kind of a testimony to a hunger in people for taking in information in long, large, complex ways.
- And so, what the Web does is that it does what all amateur increases do, which is it decreases the average quality of what’s available. It is exactly, precisely, the complaint made about the printing press. So, the only thing surprising about the Web, in a way, is that it’s been a long time since we’ve had a medium that increased the amount of production of written material this dramatically.
- The actual effects of making more information available to more people have been enormously beneficial to society, yet not to the intellectual gatekeepers in the generation in which that change happened.
- nostalgia becomes the only bulwark against change.
- But the information overload people are the most narcissistic because information overload started in Alexandria, in the library of Alexandria, right? That was the first example where we have concrete archaeological evidence that there was more information in one place than one human being could deal with in one lifetime, which is almost the definition of information overload. And the first deep attempt to categorize knowledge so that you could subset; the first take on the information filtering problem appears in the library of Alexandria.
  
  By the time that the publishing industries spun up in Venice in the early- to mid-1500s, the ability to have access to more reading material than you could finish in a lifetime is now starting to become a general problem of the educated classes. And by the 1800s, it’s a general problem of the middle class. So there is no such thing as information overload, there’s only filter failure, right? Which is to say the normal case of modern life is information overload for all educated members of society.
- If you took the contents of an average Barnes and Noble, and you dumped it into the streets and said to someone, “You know what’s in there? There’s some works of Auden in there, there’s some Plato in there. Wade on in and you’ll find what you like.” And if you wade on in, you know what you’d get? You’d get Chicken Soup for the Soul. Or, you’d get Love’s Tender Fear. You’d get all this junk. The reason we think that there’s not an information overload problem in a Barnes and Noble or a library is that we’re actually used to the cataloging system. On the Web, we’re just not used to the filters yet, and so it seems like “Oh, there’s so much more information.” But, in fact, from the 1500s on, that’s been the normal case.
  
  So, the real question is, how do we design filters that let us find our way through this particular abundance of information? And, you know, my answer to that question has been: the only group that can catalog everything is everybody. One of the reasons you see this enormous move towards social filters, as with Digg, as with del.icio.us, as with Google Reader, in a way, is simply that the scale of the problem has exceeded what professional catalogers can do. But, you know, you never hear twenty-year-olds talking about information overload because they understand the filters they’re given. You only hear, you know, forty- and fifty-year-olds taking about it, sixty-year-olds talking about because we grew up in the world of card catalogs and TV Guide. And now, all the filters we’re used to are broken and we’d like to blame it on the environment instead of admitting that we’re just, you know, we just don’t understand what’s going on.
- And so one of the problems that old people like me suffer from is just we know too many solutions for problems that no longer exist. And it kind of freaks us out to realize that all the things we mastered don’t really add up to much value anymore.
- It’s not so much that young people are smart and old people are scared. It’s that young people don’t have to unlearn all the stuff that old people do have to unlearn if we want to understand this world. And unlearning is just about the least fun activity in the world. So, you know, it’s easy to understand why people don’t want to sign up for it. But it’s also kind of pathetic that the people going around talking about information overload don’t stop to factor in the idea that if the twenty-year-olds aren’t complaining about information overload, it probably isn’t the problem we think it is.
- I’m just so impatient with the argument that the world should be slowed down to help people who aren’t smart enough to understand what’s going on. It’s in part because I grew up in a generation that benefited enormously from not doing that. Right? The baby boomers, when we were young, we had zero, zero patience for the idea that people who are in their fifties in the ’70s and ’80s should somehow be shielded from cultural changes because somehow the stuff that we were doing was upsetting them. So, now it’s our turn and we ought to just suck it up.

28 Oct 08

Golden Swamp » How do you find what you want and how do you know it is true?

Finding what you want: Look in the full and online ocean, staying clear of digital knowledge that is artificially molded into analog shapes and storage.

Ascertaining what is true: Let the laws and methods of the entirely new medium for human information

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23 Oct 08

Technology Review: Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth

Unlike the laws of mathematics or science, wikitruth isn't based on principles such as consistency or observability. It's not even based on common sense or firsthand experience. Wikipedia has evolved a radically different set of epistemological standards

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21 Oct 08

White supremacists target middle America - USATODAY.com

MartinLutherKing.org creators featured in the USA Today: The nation's largest white-power website, Stormfront, has a new feature that lets members create social-networking pages. The site has had as many as 42,700 unique visitors in a 24-hour period this

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17 Sep 08

How To Evaluate A Web Site Trustworthiness and Credibility - Robin Good's Latest News

How do you know whether something you read on the web is true? You can't know, at least, not for sure. This makes it important to read carefully and to evaluate what you read. This guide will tell you how.

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09 Sep 08

Obama Online: Preaching to the Choir Could Cost Him the Election

According to ComScore in June 2008, McCain and Obama purchased a combined 7.39 million sponsored search engine ads: 4.8 million exposures for McCain vs. 2.6 for Obama. Where Obama keeps it courtly by mostly buying keywords related to his name and campaign

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01 Sep 08

Candidates' Web Sites Get to Know the Voters - washingtonpost.com

Shouldn't we be teaching this:

How did the campaign know which readers to send ads to? Although both the Obama and John McCain campaigns are reluctant to discuss details, the ability to identify sympathetic voters based on their Internet habits, and then

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13 Aug 08

: Pub Habits of Mind

They are at the heart of each curriculum as well as being the basis for judging student performance. We never quite write them out the exact same way, and over the years we've realized they are constantly evolving in their meaning. They are:

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01 Apr 08

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Critical Evaluation of Information Sources (University of Oregon Libraries)

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