Since I last wrote about Tumblr Write your thoughts….or stream that news! there has been a new version released.
A write-up of the new features of Tumblr 3.0 at Read/Write web explains that it includes over 400 new features, fixes, and improvements. Beyond fixes, the features seem to cluster around four important themes for this release:
Looking good!
This may be the first research study of Twitter – the Microblogging phenomenon…
Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities is part of the Proceedings of the Joint 9th WEBKDD and 1st SNA-KDD Workshop 2007 and available for download.
Conclusions?
The Popularity of Micro-blogging (i.e.Twitter) is due to the combined benefits of
–Light-weight blogging
–and the ability to share information in the social network.
The Main user-intentions for using Twitter are
–Information sharing
–Information seeking
–Friendship
–Users generated content includes:Status updates, daily chatter, sharing links/News, etc.
Posting Frequency vs. Number of Followers
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Lots of partying, lots of stupid stuff, lots of weird videos about the launch . but hey! the future just keeps rolling on…’cause we now have YouTube Australia, launched on October 23.
For locally generated and shared videos, this is claimed to help us with our viewing speed – because we won’t have to channel back through the small pipe to
the US.
True? I don’t know. It will be interesting to see how this goes. I just wish we didn’t have such poor bandwith in Australia.
How will they connect the countries together – like eBay? Yes, you can choose from the dropdown menu to choose the country to search. And yes, you can do a global search too.
How much stuff is there being stored on all those video servers – can you believe it? Just in time to fill our ipods with more stuff…..
Here is a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime.
Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.
Important things in this to consider for our school students too!
The 2nd annual K12 Online virtual conference is just about a month away. The 2007 conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26 of 2007, and will include a preconference keynote during the week of October 8.
The conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries.”
Make sure you attend, or attend the conference archive. The event is completely free. Important thinkers and dreamers and practitioners will present. Connect yourself with their visions of how our schools are evolving, how learning is changing.
The presenters this year have been invited to create short, online videos (published to a website like YouTube or TeacherTube) which will give attendees a better idea of what their presentation will address. These videos provide a fabulous way of deciding which presenters to listen to first! Check the blog out now, and you’ll be in for a treat!
Stay in touch with the lead-up to the conference by following the K12 Online conference blog, and enjoy!
…… or so it seems according the the Wall Street Journal’s report on a social networking for doctors. In a recent report about a patient with an eyeball protruding from a socket, professional consultation about a diagnosis didn’t take place in a doctor’s lounge. It happened on Sermo.com.
And so it spreads…but only when there is appropriate bandwidth available! I know that some parts of Australia and New Zealand don’t have the luxury of easy access to Web 2.0 tools and collaborative connections.
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