My personal select top ten links from Twitter 7/23/2010 through 7/29/2010. The best of the best and/or the most important stuff I tweeted last week 1. So-Called “Digital Natives” Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows via @colleengreene – I know the concept of digital natives has been popular but anyone who works with the generation knows that it is inaccurate there is a huge divide between those with the access to technology, never mind the know-how to use it. 2. AssortedStuff » We Need More Tech Skeptics – more on the idea of digital natives 3. Five tips for asking better questions – asking questions is easy, asking good questions is hard. Good questions require creative thinking. When you’re lost, look for questions, not answers. Think of your career path as a question path. Asking good questions takes work – that you have to do yourself. Field other peoples’ questions to get better at asking questions. 4. great perspective But who will speak for the trees? – a different look at ebooks from someone who does not work in libraries 5. great tips for speakers – How do we balance technical v. non technical for a mixed audience? as a tech
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Top Ten Links Week 21
My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 5/21/2010 thru 5/27/2010. Ok I’ll confess right off the bat, I cheated, there are 12 links this week. I just couldn’t cut them down. A couple of these deserve their own blog post so shame on me for not giving them the attention they deserve. 1. How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking - great article from Peter Bregman with some clear reasons why you should stop multi-tasking A study showed that people distracted by incoming email and phone calls saw a 10-point fall in their IQs. What’s the impact of a 10-point drop? The same as losing a night of sleep. More than twice the effect of smoking marijuana. Doing several things at once is a trick we play on ourselves, thinking we’re getting more done. In reality, our productivity goes down by as much as 40%. We don’t actually multitask. We switch-task, rapidly shifting from one thing to another, interrupting ourselves unproductively, and losing time in the process. Even better are the six things he learned the week he stopped trying to multi-task. I really need to do this First, it was delightful. Second, I made significant
Social media and networked technologies: research and insights
Social media and networked te3chnologies research and insights danah boyd – phd candidate at berkley social media in context, historical perspective web2.0 tech crowd sees it as a shift in deployment, perpetual beta, user generated content business crowd – hope, came after tech bubble crashed, rise of the social network sites – certain things are consistent across them does not say social networking – just social network bc what makes these sites unique is that they have to do with the public socialization of your actual social network profiles – physical world, dress up, do hair etc, online have to do dress up formally, dressing up your profile is a way to make yourself known online, you create a profile you think expresses who you are to the ppl around you most ppl lie about their age onilne, adults decrease, young ppl increase, adults are descriptive young ppl think no one needs to know dress up profile as they would their bedroom or backpacks Friends – are you my friend yes or no? Have to publicly answer that, the term friend means something different to different ppl, some have lower level friends are using sites to connect with ppl they
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