Just got a mail sent to the digital media working group at UW from Phillip Thurtle. Thought I’d post to the blog in case some students are not on that email list:

“Hello all,

I’m writing to see if any of you have used “the pool” to post your projects? http://pool.newmedia.umaine.edu/index.php

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Mark and I were discussing Twitter pros and cons the other day and agreed one positive aspect is it forces people to be concise. As I was catching up on my RSS feeds, I saw Craig Stoltz beat us to the punch.

The summary, “Writing substantial Tweets teaches a key journalism skill: Make every word count.”

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“Social networking sites are already pretty popular. So how do you improve on the internet’s hottest web offerings? The answer could be to make them three-dimensional.

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Ok, he does – he totally called it.

I was uploading some photos to my Flickr account today and noticed someone had commented on one of my photos from an MS Walk I participated in on April 13. The comment was, “Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Intl Multiple Sclerosis Fundraising Events, and we’d love to have your photos added to the group! ”

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Ok, I’m really, finally, starting to get the value of Twitter.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/25/twitter.buck/index.html

Bottom line: real-time communication when other methods aren’t available.

-Particularly when the communication is urgent, such as during natural disasters or when you want to broadcast your current whereabouts and your status for safety reasons:

“The most important thing on my mind was to let someone know where we were so that there would be some record of it … so we couldn’t [disappear].”

“It was my big hope that people would get [the message] right away and at least put a thumbtack on the map as far as our location,” Buck said. Read more…

Some really interesting news today from the Web 2.0 Expo.

http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/

“This is about making Yahoo! social in every dimension. Social is not a destination — it’s a dimension and it will infuse all aspects of a consumer’s experience on the Web.” ~Yahoo! CTO Ari Balogh

What do YOU think this means? Is it defense? Hype? Revolution?

~Carie

Yes, I know, it’s not a huge surprise that a topic we discussed last week is being covered by CNN today – the topic has been around for a bit after all, but it’s ironic nonetheless.

Some interesting stats in the article though -and a distinction between formal and informal writing and the implication that students need to be able to use both:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/24/teen.writing.ap/index.html

~Carie 

Great post today by Craig Stoltz:
http://2ohreally.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/twing-searching-the-deep-web/

He discusses a search service, called “Twing” that retrieves content that Google doesn’t (sorry, Virigina, Google doesn’t search the “whole” web).

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