Bob Furst's List: Web 2.0

• Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging)

• Picasa Web Albums Uploader

• The easy way to find, edit, and share your photos

• Not just a site to share baby photos with your grandparents

• “There are currently seventeen senators on Twitter. For the most part these senators have not yet signed on as cosponsors to S. 482. In fact, only two of the seventeen are already cosponsors. We need your help to petition over Twitter the fifteen who have not cosponsored and ask them to support the bill by signing on as a cosponsor. Each one of these senators will need a tweet sent to them (example: @jimdemint) with a message asking them to cosponsor.”
• “It was the sort of non-eventful event worthy of the Rolling Stones at their most bloated and corporate, and that was no surprise: The members of U2 have made no secret of their desire to dethrone the Stones as the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band, and they’ve been just as cynical about selling their souls to corporate Satans–jumping into bed with giant national concert promoters Live Nation, dumping their lucrative deal with Apple for an even more lucrative tour sponsorship by BlackBerry and plodding through tired retreads of older sounds on their last two albums, “All That You Can’t Leave Behind”

• Because there are really two worst case scenarios that we’re concerned about right now, and it's important to distinguish between them. There is panic that newspapers are going to disappear as businesses. And then there’s panic that crucial information is going to disappear with them, that we’re going to suffer as culture because newspapers will no long be able to afford to generate the information we’ve relied on for so many years.
• The funny thing about newspapers today is that their audience is growing at a remarkable clip. Their underlying business model is being attacked by multiple forces, but their online audience is growing faster than their print audience is shrinking
• print circulation had declined from 62 million to 49 million
• online audience has grown from zero to 75 million over that period.
• I am bullish on the future of news, as you can tell. But I am not bullish on what is happening right now in the newspaper industry. It is ugly, and it is going to get uglier. Great journalists and editors are going to lose their jobs, and cities are going to lose their papers.

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• Friendster, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Yelp, Amazon, Pandora and, of course, Twitter. There are dozens more. How can you possibly keep up with their latest posts all over the place?
• FriendFeed,
• automatically importing his latest posts on every site he lists with the service.
• FriendFeed will crawl these sites. Any new posts will be added atop his FriendFeed page.
• to track my professional colleague Brian Solis, a prolific publicist, photographer, blogger and link-sharer.

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• The Smart Grid will use automated meters, two-way communications and advanced sensors to improve electricity efficiency and reliability. T
• Experts said that once in the system, a hacker could gain control of thousands, even millions, of meters and shut them off simultaneously. A hacker also might be able to dramatically increase or decrease the demand for power, disrupting the load balance on the local power grid and causing a blackout. These experts said such a localized power outage would cascade to other parts of the grid, expanding the blackout. No one knows how big it could get.

• My personal definition of Web 2.0 is not complicated.  With an appropriate nod to Tim O'Reilly, who used the phrase originally in a business context, I'd like to suggest that for the sake of our discussions around education that Web 2.0 is simply the use of the Internet as a two-way medium- - -that it is a platform upon which content is not only consumed but also created.  For my generation, our use of the Web largely mirrored our experiences with print and broadcast media:  we were the audience, and a select few were the creators (this would be Web 1.0, if you will).  For my children and our students today, their use of the Web often entirely revolves around content that they and their friends have created, and within Web frameworks or scaffolding that facilitate that creativity rather than providing the content for them.  They build profile pages, upload photos and videos, and interact with each other and that content through active commenting systems.

• Web 2.0, defined this way, is facilitating a dramatic change in our relationship to information. The advent of printing press lowered the cost of producing written material, and Web 2.0 not only brings that cost now to essentially zero (anyone in this country can go to a public library and use a computer for free and with free software publish to the web), it is also bringing the nature of information publication as a conversation to the user who used to just be a part of "the audience."  While most of us watched those conversations taking place between trusted authorities or authors before in a world of broadcast media, we are often now immersed in them ourselves.

  Seeing the Web as a conversation is very helpful in understanding how our paradigms about information will have to change.  We often speak of "information overload," and the perception that there is too much information can reinforce our belief that information needs to be more carefully controlled and vetted before being "allowed" to become public.  When, however, we see the ever increasing amount of content as "conversations" that are taking place, it becomes an educational imperative to teach ourselves and students to be productive participants in those conversations.  I like to tease educators by claiming that the answer to information overload is to create (and to teach the creation of) more information--a paradox in our existing paradigms, but self-evident in a new understanding.

• Even if the author weren't a professor of journalism at Berkeley, and therefore by definition a liberal foodie intellectual, you could guess how this scheme will play out: the McDonald's meal will be found wanting in terms of nutrition and eco-sustainability; the Whole Foods meal will be decent but tainted with a whiff of corporate compromise; the Virginia farm meal will be rapturously flavorful and uplifting; and the hunter-gatherer meal will be a gutsy feast of wild boar and morels, with a side of guilt and some squirmy philosophizing on what it means to take a pig's life.

• Birmingham City University can solve your problems; as of next year, it’ll offer a course in social networking sites as communications and marketing tools.
• 4,400 pounds (6,239 dollars).
• what people can do on Facebook and Twitter,

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• Here are 6 virtual art galleries for artists:
• EBSQ is an online art gallery and community that offers easy to use portfolios where you can upload art, a biography, and link to sites where you sell your work. They also offer online skills classes, tutorials, an online magazine, and online art shows judged by well-known professionals in the art world. In addition, how-tos and tools that are available to help you sell your work on auction sites like eBay.
• Myartspace is a social network for art professionals - artists, collectors, students, teachers, gallerists, curators, critics and art appreciators. The site offers a place to show your art, connect with others, and gain opportunities to participate in competitions and shows around the world.
• Artition is a new social network specifically for artists to showcase their work, blog, participate in contests, create groups, and sell or buy art. Membership to Artition free.
• Deviantart is a well known site that offers artists of all genres and mediums the opportunity to start their own virtual gallery for free. You can share, comment, and link to other artists’ artwork as well.
• Illustration Mundo is a great place for illustrators and graphic artists to share, promote and collaborate with other creative professionals. Artists can enjoy Ask a Pro, where you can learn more about your trade and ask questions, read great articles by other artists, discuss topics in the forum section, and gain exposure with art buyers through the site.
• Artist Rising is a site by Art.com made for artists to showcase and share their work with potential buyers and other artists as well as sell fine art prints. There is a jurying process in which each month Art.com decides what artists to sell on their other sites, Art.com and Allposters.com. If you are picked, you gain extra exposure through their other main sites.

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• memes” (ideas that people can’t help sharing with their friends)