The New York Times reports on the increasingly frequent–but still very controversial–practice of incorporating Twitter and other “backchannel” communication networks into the classroom. Do such conversations make classes more inclusive or more distracting?
The raid is liveblogged when one of Bin Laden’s neighbors complains about the noisy helicopters on Twitter, while Bin Laden’s compound gets 3 of 5 stars on Google Maps. Also in the news: weaponized dogs and a tale of two seals.
Over the past month, new media scholars have spilled a lot of digital ink arguing whether the Internet actually fostered the 2011 revolution in Egypt, Tunisia, and other Middle East countries–or whether it simply created a dependency that governments can shut down to stymie protesters. Here’s a “Middle East Internet Scorecard” showing where and when governments have cut off their citizens’ access to the net.
How hard would it be for, say, President Beck to shut down Google, Facebook, and the like in the US of A? Read this Middle East censorship roundup to find out what Egyptians, Libyans, and the rest of us can do to safeguard access to a global electronic network.
I never thought of Twitter’s randomness as an asset, but in this writer’s response I can see a valuable antidote to Facebook’s inbred circles. Following strangers becomes a form of human channel surfing.
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/1SbUhWYbwC4/ via Byline Over at Gizmodo, Joel Johnson makes a convincing argument for adding random strangers to your twitter feed.
Read on to see how Johnson correlates hearing a diversity of viewpoints with creativity.
I never thought of Twitter’s randomness as an asset, but in this writer’s response I can see a valuable antidote to Facebook’s inbred circles. Following strangers becomes a form of human channel surfing.
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/1SbUhWYbwC4/ via Byline Over at Gizmodo, Joel Johnson makes a convincing argument for adding random strangers to your twitter feed.
Read on to see how Johnson correlates hearing a diversity of viewpoints with creativity.
Nov 302009
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