The Democratic Party | Community Blogs | Member Posts
New “Web 2.0″ site for the Democratic Party — actually looks good and useful. Allows people to keep their own blogs, write petitions, create and join groups, creat events, fundraise, etc. All keeping with the Web 2.0 motto of putting the user first.
(tags: research)
Help hundreds [...]
YouTube Can’t Pay the Bills
YouTube is having deep financial problems
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Social networking for all? | Perspectives | CNET News.com
Extending social networking apps to everyone, for a variety of uses.
(tags: social-networking)
How to Build a Better Political Campaign Website…
(tags: campaigns pol)
Danah Boyd on “Social Networking Sites”
Danah Boyd on the problem of the phrase “social networking sites”: “The verb form gives off a problematic impression and it obfuscates what people actually do on these sites. Most folks hang out with their friends. They go there to model their social net
(tags: social-networking myspace thesis research)
The risks [...]
The New Media Literacies project is a very cool new effort to teach K-12 students about new media technologies. It’s the first time I’ve seen such a structured, forward-thinking approach to teaching this kind of literacy — how to use wikis, what blogging is, interactivity, etc. — to kids. They’re producing short biographies [...]
But they faced a number of issues: they had no standards by which to evaluate work produced in these new and emerging media
Henry Jenkins on producing films about media-makers for students.
(tags: video education)
Not in the Real World Anymore - New York Times
MTV getting into the Second Life thing
(tags: mtv secondlife thesis)
New Media Literacies :: Media [...]
TeacherSource | learning.now . Should Educators Encourage Online Student Political Activism? | PBS
Andy Carvin asks, “is it the job of teachers to encourage students to use the Net for organizing campaigns or influencing policy?”
(tags: social-networking activism Myspace literacy research)
Main Page - CampDarfur
The people who brought you recreations of Darfur across the country and in Second [...]
Charlie Nesson and his daughter will be teaching CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion in meat space, but you can also take the course, watch video lectures, sign up for virtual office hours and participate in discussions and the like through your
Law school in Second Life?
(tags: secondlife thesis)
Left Lane Ends » Blog Archive [...]
Chris Messina, a tech consultant who blogs at FactoryCity and was once on the Flock team, wrote a great post today about the whiteness and maleness of the Web 2.0 world. He says things that many white men don’t have the nards to say.
as it stands, we, as white men (of course I include [...]
