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The current generation of Web users is sharing more than ever online - in ways my parent's generation would visibly flinch over. They are sharing their locations, their relationships, their personal photos, and their thoughts in real time. They are posting their updates to Facebook, to Twitter, and to MySpace, as they move (Read More)
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Is memorization dead? Is education as we know it dead? Well maybe yes to both.The other day I posted a video by Dr. Michael Wesch in which he asks if it makes any sense to force students to memorize stuff when they can look it up via search engines in a second.Then I was reading an academic paper today that made me wonder i (Read More)
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"The only thing Twitter does better than the traditional news is speed. It doesn't do depth, it doesn't do fact-checking, it doesn't do real reporting. It does breaking news, and it does that very well...". (Read More)
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As we told you last month, the Democrats are giving select bloggers access to be on the floor of the national convention in Denver this summer. Fifty-five lucky bloggers have been chosen. Here. (Read More)
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Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi is a long and wrenching piece about the OLPC project by Ivan Krstic. Just one man. (Read More)
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There have been a few stories, following the earthquake in China, about how Twitter broke the news before mainstream media. The AFP's story, particularly, is titled. (Read More)
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A new study points out the rather unsurprising fact that the number of "hyperconnected" individuals is growing. The definition of hyperconnected is anyone with seven or more connected devices and nine or more applications on those devices (though, it's not entirely clear how they define an "application" since it seems to i (Read More)
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News about a potentially big deal in the newspaper industry broke just before the holiday weekend. No, not another story about a chain swallowing another chain, or news about the formation of yet another online advertising platform that's doomed to underperform. Instead, this was a kind of news that only a geek would love: (Read More)
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Spring is upon us! And with it, another crop of enthusiastic, bight-eyed, bushy-tailed journalism graduates hatch from their cocoon of schooling and flutter to the market. For all of you students out there (and anyone else looking for advice), let me save you some bumps and give you some of my career advice that they didn. (Read More)
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Do you tag yourself? Honestly? No, this is not a game.
With everyone back on the tag versus categories versus tags bandwagon, have you checked to make sure you are tagging yourself?
Inside of Lorelle on WordPress is the tag attribute that turns . (Read More)
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In an upcoming interview, you will read me say the following:
I hate labels and putting people in boxes. That. (Read More)
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Understanding new technologies, media and the emerging social media panorama takes more than just a subscription to Wired or having a page on MySpace or Facebook. The real learning, as I often say, comes from exploration. You really need to go out and try out what it means to network with like minded people, share your best (Read More)