My personal select top ten links from Twitter 8/27/2010 through 9/2/2010. The best of the best and/or the most important stuff I tweeted last week 1. 7 Stories About Women Heroes in Tech via dontgetcaught - I can always use more inspiring stories about women, especially in tech where there seem to be fewer of us. 2. You Have to Be in It to Win It!: A seven-step program to embrace ebooks – A great remind and an easy list from Library School Journal 3. Broadband summit asks how to close rural digital divide - some great stats and information about broadband access in the digital divide in rural America. A new survey out this week shows that a majority of rural Minnesotans have access to faster Internet connections. Yet some other trends are not as hopeful. One in four Minnesota households, mostly older and poorer residents, have no computer at home, according to the survey prepared by the University of Minnesota Crookston and the Center for Rural Policy and Development in St. Peter. 4 . Why are the elderly joining Facebook? To stay in touch with family/friends and find support for chronic illness ET via EngageInHealth – Facebook not just for
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Top Ten Links Week 18
My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 4/30/2010 thru 5/6/2010 1.very interesting! Social Media Withdrawal: What Happens When Kids Give Up Their Connections – fascinating! Definitely worth reading. Among the top findings Students use literal terms of addiction to characterize their dependence on media. Students hate going without media. In their world, going without media means going without their friends and family. Students show no significant loyalty to a news program, news personality or even news platform. Students have only a casual relationship to the originators of news, and in fact don’t make fine distinctions between news and more personal information. They get news in a disaggregated way, often via friends. 18- to 21-year-old college students are constantly texting and on Facebook—with calling and email distant seconds as ways of staying in touch, especially with friends. Students could live without their TVs and the newspaper, but they can’t survive without their iPods. 2. Gallery: 8 Tablets That Aren’t Made by Apple 3. Rethinking the professionalism of librarians; an MLS does not a professional librarian make via @level250geek from 10 Reasons Why “Professional Librarian is an Oxymoron” Librarians Have No Monopoly On The Activities They Claim There Are No
My Favorite Privacy Quotes – A Top Ten Countdown
As part of National Privacy week I thought I would share some of my favorite quotes about privacy. Hopefully they will get you thinking about privacy, if you weren’t before, and spark some conversation. 10 . Our work to improve privacy continues today. – Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook I don’t think I really have to comment on this one, its just amusing. 9 .Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused. ~ Richard Perle According to Wikipedia – “Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor and lobbyist who worked for the Reagan administration as an assistant Secretary of Defense and worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Board from 2001 to 2003 under the Bush Administration.” 8. The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable. -Anon., U. S. Privacy Study Commission, 1977 If we ignore small gradual erosions to privacy, especially in the name of convenience or safety, we risk a much larger overall loss that we aren’t aware of until its
Top Ten Links Week 16
My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 4/16/2010 thru 4/22/2010 1. NYTimes: Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley – Sexism is still alive in Silicon Valley and pretty much everywhere else including libraries. 2. NYTimes: Web Coupons aKnow Lots About You, and They Tell – love coupons? Me too, but make sure you know what information you’re giving up when you get web coupons. 3. Two magazines, Newsweek and New York Teacher, offer competing views of what it will take to fix our schools via dmlcentral- the article the link goes to looks at two magazine covers but its worth actually reading the articles the covers are about. 4. Tim O’Reilly Explains the Internet of Things via mlx – be sure to read the article too 5. Are we surrendering our privacy too easily? Intriguing online conversation on MemeBurn via @dmlcentral – an absolute must read if you are thinking about privacy even a little. 6. Facebook’s move ain’t about changes in privacy norms - If you are looking for well thought out responses to claims that privacy is dead danah boyd is always dead on. Here is another great post from her about
Top Ten Links Week 17
My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 4/23/2010 thru 4/29/2010 1.Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline – a must read. You know privacy settings on Facebook have been changing but just seeing the time line will put it in perspective. 2. CIOs say IT should not block socianetworking sites via @sabram 3.Texting and cellphones being used successfully in fight against malaria via @dmlcentral – love stories about tech being used to save lives Using a mix of text messages, Google Maps and cloud software, organizers of a pilot program backed by IBM, Novartis and Vodafone believe they saved hundreds of lives in a few short months on the malaria-wracked African continent. Simply by tracking inventory in remote areas with greater efficiency, the anti-malaria groups were able to increase the chances that any given clinic would have life-saving medicine on hand by 300 percent. 4. Change is Hard Because Self-Control Wears You Out - Sources of Insight via @buffyjhamilton – a good look at why change is so hard 5. great read! 25 Lessons Learned from Seth Godin via @buffyjhamilton @presentationzen – also includes top 10 quotes and a list of quotes by subject. Handy
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