Category: Social network
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Open-source pro-democracy social media network
Oh Twitter, oh Elon, what a curfuffle. Since I’m not actively teaching, I thought I could just sidestep the question of where to migrate my connections on Twitter. But along came a post by a blogher and academic colleague, Kim Pearson, who I met years ago. Kim’s post about using a Mastodon instance to create…
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Dave Winer says…
Dave Winer weighs in on why Twitter needs to move beyond 140 characters. Twitter is the tool of choice for journalists and as tech limits change (like SMS limits,) our tools change, too. ”..all products in a space eventually get the features of all the other products…If Buick adds a radio, then so must Dodge…
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Journalists Are People
This has been so obvious to me as someone who had worked for may years doing a variety of producing, research, and writing and only coming lately to journalism. I’d rather read a journalist who is upfront about a bias but is fair in reporting, than one who aspires to an unattainable objectivity but doesn’t…
Barbara Iverson
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My Toolkits about Social Media & Sharing
These are links to annotated toolkits. Check them out to increase your productivity. Sharing and Working with Others by @drbarb // Signal/Noise Adjustment by @drbarb // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // New Ecology of News Tools by @drbarb // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // Social Media Starters by @drbarb // <…
Barbara Iverson
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Colorado Is Tracking Social Media Movements 08/12/2011
Talk about using govt money in counterproductive ways. In Chicago during the 60-70s we had the “Red Squad” which wasted money and incited more trouble than they prevented. So it goes. Colorado’s Department of Public Safety is employing analysts at the Colorado Information Analysis Center to monitor sites like Twitter and Facebook with an eye…
Barbara Iverson
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Arphid Watch: ThingMagic, RFID, social networks | Beyond The Beyond
Arphid Watch: ThingMagic, RFID, social networks By Bruce Sterling Email Author May 27, 2011 | 11:44 am | Categories: Arphid Watch, Augmented Reality *In an alternate world there’s a cyber-situation where RFID networks are huge and social networks are a relatively minor enterprise. But here’s an arphid-Facebook mashup that oughta make Katherine Albrecht grab her…
Barbara Iverson
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Charting Al Jazeera’s Social Revolution (In Realtime)
realtime snapshot of what activity looked like on Al Jazeera’s English website on Friday when Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak resigned. Everyone wanted to watch and they flooded to Al Jazeera’s English website. Concurrent realtime visits spiked from about 50,000 right before noon ET to 135,371 when the snapshot above was taken. The number of people…
Barbara Iverson
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Poligraft Tool for Journalists, Politicos, Voters
Poligraft is a new, geeky Web tool that the Sunlight Foundation just launched. You can plug either a URL or text into the tool and it will analyze the information and link you to groups that donate to politicians. …Let’s take a look at CNN‘s story on the “buzz” over Proposition 8. When you drop…
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Attention Deficit Arises from Viewing, Using “Screens”
Image via Wikipedia the middle childhood cohort, those who spent a median of 3.86 hours in front of a screen had an odds ratio for developing attention problems of 1.81 (95% CI, 1.56 to 2.11). Among the sample of late adolescents and young adults, those with a median of 4.36 hours of total screen time,…
Barbara Iverson
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Map: Where Americans Are Moving – Forbes.com
Map: Where Americans Are Moving – Forbes.com. Here is a social network that is shows economic and social information in a glance. I wish you could look at inward migration separate from out migration. You can roll over the lines and see the exact numbers for various paths. Here is Chicago‘s map: Related articles by…