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 “kids” anymore

While the percentage of social networking users age 18 to 29 rose from 76% to 86% in the year to May, 2010, the number of users age 50 and over almost doubled – rising a whopping 88% from 22% to 42%.

This was even higher for older seniors. Usage among those over the age of 65 grew 100% from 13% in April 2009 to 26% in May 2010.

5. Which ebook sellers will allow publishers and writers to opt out of DRM? – Boing Boing article from Cory Doctorow the struggles to sell his books through the major ebook vendors without DRM

6. If You’ve Got Social Media Fatigue, UR DOIN IT WRONG via @techcrunch – great article

Here’s a clue: If you find yourself saying “(Fill-in-the-blank-social-media-site) used to be soooooo much better before everyone was on it”– you are using the site wrong. You are following too many people, you are using it too much, you are strangling the pretty, little bunny. The beauty of these sites is you control how many friends you see, and how many of them see you. So if you used to love it and now hate it, well, you know what they say about when you point a finger. Three are pointing back at you.

7. Debunking the neuroscience in the recent burst of anti-digital age media stories.  via dmlcentral – Another article in the back and forth over whether technology is making us smarter or rotting our brains.

8. Great set of resources, links for K-12 teachers keen on realizing the possibilities of digital media and learning via dmlcentral

9. great post, too many get caught up on “doing it the right” RT @vonburkhardt: Start Walking, You’ll Find Your Way - Another great post from Any Burkhardt

10. RT @kongtemplation: yet another argument for libs to create digital media labs for kids and adults #transliteracy –  an article on the The Creativity Crisis from Newsweek

For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it.

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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

1. Students use literal terms of addiction to characterize their dependence on media.
2. Students hate going without media. In their world, going without media means going without their friends and family.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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”

1. Librarians Have No Monopoly On The Activities They Claim
2. There Are No Consequences For Failing To Adhere To Ethical Practices
3. Librarianship Is Too Generalized To Claim Any Expertise
4. ’Librarian’ Assumes A Place Of Work, Rather Than The Work Itself
5. Peer Review In Librarianship Does Not Work Because There Is No Competitive Process To Go With It
6. Values Are Not Enough
7. The Primary Motivation For Professionalization Is The Monopoly Of Labor
8. Accredited Library Schools Do Not Adequately Prepare Students For Library Work
9. Competing Professions Are Offering Different Paradigms To Achieve The Same Goals
10. Nobody Can Name A ‘Great’ Librarian

4 . Net neutrality NYTimes: Web’s Users Against Its Gatekeepers

With the majority of Internet traffic expected to shift to congestion-prone mobile networks, there is growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic about whether operators of the networks should be allowed to treat Web users differently, based on the users’ consumption.

5. dana boyd on The Changing Nature of Privacy on Facebook via @joycevalenza

Facebook is saying, “Ah, the social norms have changed. We don’t have to pay attention to people’s privacy concerns, that’s just old fuddy-duddies.” Part of that is strategic. Law follows social norms.

6. Reading list on ebooks in libraries. Librarything via @ALA_TechSource

7. Take Pictures, Tell Stories Part 4: Fun with Photos at Library Events – Cindi’s series on taking better photos is a great guide to taking better photos in the library and everywhere else!

8. “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” - Clay Shirky via @jaclark – Does this apply to libraries?

9. Simple Tips for Getting Rid of a Bad Habits

1. Tell your friends and family.
2. Make it painful to not go through with it.
3. Listen to those who have gone where you want to go.
4. What will this lead to in 5 and 10 years?
5. Avoid temptations.
6. Replace it.
7. Don’t remove more than one habit at a time.
8. Don’t make a huge deal out of it.
9. If at first you don’t succeed dust yourself off and try again.

10. The Most Influential Women in Technology | Fast Company – this probably deserves its own post.

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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 too late.

7. Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service. - Anil Dash

Word.

6. It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. – Ben Franklin

Its a great reminder. There is nothing wrong with asking questions and wanting answers, especially in regard to privacy.

5. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. - Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google

Oh really? I do all sorts of things I don’t want anyone to know about, nothing crazy or illegal, but personal and private. I don’t want those things  broadcast. Thanks.

4. You already have zero privacy. Get over it. -  Scott G. McNealy CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc

This was said in 1999, yes, really.

3. No matter how many times a privileged straight white male technology executive pronounces the death of privacy, Privacy Is Not Dead. People of all ages care deeply about privacy. And they care just as much about privacy online as they do offline. Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity“

Privacy doesn’t mean the same to everyone and the end of it will affect people of different social and economic classes differently.

2. Once conversations that should be private are undertaken in a public forum, they become theater – meant for the onlookers more than the participants. - Are we surrendering our privacy too easily?

This is fascinating to me. The process of being watched changes how we behave both offline and online. Just as you question the reality of reality tv so should you consider the validity of statements and actions carried out in a public forum where the  participant knows there is an audience.

1.  Just because something is publicly accessible does not mean that people want it to be publicized. - “Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity“

This is hands down my favorite privacy quote.  There is a huge difference between something happening in public and it being publicized. If you’re not keeping up with what danah boyd says about privacy you should be. She has a firm understanding of the nuances of online privacy and she explains them clearly so anyone can understand.

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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 this issue comparing it to a face to face situation.

Public-ness has always been a privilege. For a long time, only a few chosen few got to be public figures. Now we’ve changed the equation and anyone can theoretically be public, can theoretically be seen by millions. So it mustn’t be a privilege anymore, eh? Not quite. There are still huge social costs to being public, social costs that geeks in Silicon Valley don’t have to account for. Not everyone gets to show up to work whenever they feel like it wearing whatever they’d like and expect a phatty paycheck. Not everyone has the opportunity to be whoever they want in public and demand that everyone else just cope.

7. Dear Non Library Followers: We’re looking 4 essays importance of libraries 4 savelibraries.org PLEASE WRITE 1 2day send lori at lorireed.com via baldgeekinmd

Savelibraries.org is the collaborative effort of my friends Heather Braum & Lori Reed.  If believe in the value and importance of libraries please, please share your story.

8. Making Your Boss Look Good (Without Becoming a Sycophant) – great suggestions on ways to make your boss look good without looking like a, well you know

9. Study finds young do care about online privacy – Security- msnbc.com – well duh, but studies are always nice back up for those conversations with non believers

10. yes it does! RT @gcaserotti: RT @buffyjhamilton Does the term “digital natives” do kids a disservice? – yes absolutely! It does a disservice to those children without access to technology, it does a disservice to those who have it but don’t understand how to use everything or the ramifications of some of the aspects.  They may be more comfortable with technology than some adults but they are still children.

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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 resource to bookmark

Have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

Be remarkable.

Success is a skill.

Being the best is the best place to be.

Be missed.

Everybody is an expert about something.

Success is a hierarchy.

Don’t do A as a calculated tactic to get B.

Be in it for the long haul.

Quit the right things and lean into the right Dips.

Decide if you’re a freelancer or entrepreneur.

It’s like walking through a maze.

Everyone is not your customer.

Feed, grow, and satisfy the tribe.

Small is the new big.

Find the new scarce

It’s the FREE PRIZE INSIDE. ”

The third century is about ideas.

Spread your ideas.

Don’t wait for perfect.

Don’t get paid to alter your behavior.

The goal of reading is to choose what to change.

The world changes whether you like it or not.

The game of marketing has changed.

Feed, grow, and satisfy your business.

6. Digital Literacy is More Than Having the Knowledge of How to Use a Computer

“Digital literacy is more than having the knowledge of how to use a computer, what your software program does, what function or understanding how the hardware of your computer works. Digital literacy is also about using that knowledge to actually facilitate the learning process.” –  Clarissa Myrick-Harris, director of the UNCF’s Curriculum and Faculty Enhancement Program.

7. RT @UrbanLibCouncil: It isn’t good customer service to punish all library customers for the sins of a few.#ulcqueensbluesky

8. Excellent post from Gina Trapani about what to do with Facebook’s questionable privacy settings via @TheLiB – read it!

9. Great Post blowing my mind this morning: @brianmathews on what the future library might look like via @pbromberg

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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 2/19/2010 thru 2/25/2010

1. RT @VenessaMiemis: 16 free ebooks about social media via @fredzimny. Just look at this list of titles and authors :

1. Building a Social Media Team, Amber Naslund,
2. ContentCory Doctorow
3. Customer Service, The Art of Listening and Engagement Through Social Media, Brian Solis
4. Fish Where the Fish Are – Mapping Social Media to the Buying Cycle, Chris Brogan
5. Getting a Foothold in Social Media, Amber Naslund
6. Let’s Talk: Social Media for Small Business, John Jantsch
7. New Media and the Air Force, United States Air Force Public Affairs Agency
8. Social Media and Network Starting Points, Chris Brogan
9. Social Media Time Management, Amber Naslund
10. Social Media Tips: Sharing lessons learned to help your business grow, Jeff Hayzlett
11. The Art of Community, Jono Bacon
12. The Essential Guide to Social Media, Brian Solis
13. The New Rules of Viral Marketing, David Meerman Scott
14. The Simple Web: A Philosophy for Getting What You Want, Skellie
15. The Social Media Starter Kit, Amber Naslund
16. What is Social Media?, Antony Mayfield

2. RT @VenessaMiemis: new post – reimagining human/social capital & how to spark innovation - Tapping the Network to Facilitate Innovation – How can the power and scope of social networks, combined with a human capital inventory, be used to facilitate shared creation and innovation?

3. RT @FluffTheBunny: Unlink your feeds – A Manifesto – as someone who is driving slightly (or slightlier) crazy by friends who dump their tweets into Facebook I can’t agree more!

4. Incredibly proud to be involved in the new Libraries & Transliteracy blog with @Tombrarian & @buffyjhamilton – oh come on, you didn’t think I could leave a mention of this out did you? I’m SO excited about this project!

5. RT @rww: On Facebook, You’re Really You - “Psychologists found that “faking it” online is tougher than previously imagined.”

6. No One Knows What the F*** They’re Doing and Feeling Like a Fraud – great read! via @griffey – I don’t know about you but I feel like this all the time, I’m just waiting for someone to notice I don’t know what I’m talking about. I’ve discussed it with friends and some people have called it the impostor syndrome (don’t look at wikipedia’s definition its too

7. RT @zephoria: UX Magazine (@uxmag) has published my “Streams of Content, Limited Attention“ today: Hope you enjoy! – An important read from danah boyd on information flow and “four challenges, points where technological hope and reality collide.”

8. Why are you apologizing? – Like all of Seth Godin’s posts this one is short but gets the point across. Don’t apologize for something you’re doing. Either don’t do it, or do it and don’t apologize.

9. How Social Is Too Social? – not everything is better with friends.

10. Empowering Parents & Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape –  Another important read from danah boyd et al “The FCC published a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on the important topic of empowering parents and protecting youth in an era of an evolving media landscape.  John Palfrey, Urs Gasser, and I took the opportunity to respond to the NOI on behalf of the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative at the Berkman Center. What we wrote should not surprise any of you who are following our work, but our research-grounded response may be of great value for those of you who are interested in this topic.  For this reason – and because we all believe in transparency – we have decided to publicly share the document that we crafted.”

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When Facebook “upgraded” or “simplified” its privacy settings they removed the ability to turn off your recent activity feed (this was one update ago. I think).  Now everything you do posts to your wall and the news feed. You can not opt out. If you don’t like it Facebook says you’re welcome to use the “Remove” button.

Great except there is no “remove” button on any mobile version of Facebook and it’s a pain in the you-know-what to delete all of my activity every time I’m active on Facebook.

I may grumble a bit every time Facebook makes an “improvement” but I adjust pretty quickly and move on. I am just not getting over this one.  Every person I’ve spoken to about this has the same complaints I do.  If you search the Help Center you’ll see post after post about it.  You’ll see your friends complaining about it in their status updates.

This is what Facebook has to say about it:

Whether we display a story on your profile is now controlled by the privacy of the content itself, rather than an additional setting. For example, only people who can see both your Wall, and the Wall to which you posted would be able to see a story about you writing on a friend’s Wall. You cannot completely turn off recent activity stories anymore. However, if you want to remove a particular story that currently shows up, simply click the “Remove” button that appears to the right of the story after you move your mouse over it. Learn more about privacy here.

Yeah great, but WHY? I want to know why facebook remove the ability to turn off recent activity stories? What possible benefit am I missing to removing my option to check little box that allows me the illusion of privacy?

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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 1/29/2010 thru 2/4/2010

1. about dismantling the echo-chamber… more on the echo chamber
2. Content Creators & Consumers (& the iPad) – an interesting post on who the audience of the iPad is. I know its not me, but I’ve had conversations with enough people who are just waiting to get one that I know there is an audience no matter what the techies feel its lacking.
3. Facebook Is Working On A Foursquare-Killer
4. Why Smart People Don’t Learn from Failures – its ok to fail, just be sure you learn something from it.
5. President’s budget freezes library funding, omits school libraries from education increase if you haven’t heard or read about this you need to and read Buffy Hamilton’s response An Indecent Proposal
6. Don’t feed the trolls, unless you’re feeding them tranquilizers – great article on how to handle blog comments, including how to handle trolls
7. 10 Steps to Promote Learning in Your Conference Presentation
8. Information and services should be equal
9. But, I Like My Loser Friends! great post from Mary Schmidt at Lip-Sticking in response to The Most Important Success Tip:Stop Lying Down with Dogs, Already from Copyblogger
10. ALA Learning -5 Tips for Trainers to Prevent TechFail

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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 1/22/2010 thru 1/28/2010

1. “Your Brain Can’t Handle Your Facebook Friends” – great article from Mashable using Dunbar’s Number to explain why you can’t keep up with more than 150 Facebook Friends. I’m guess that applies to Twitter as well.
2. Social Technology & an Innovative Intranet can Increase Employee Productivity give stats & examples, reminds me I need to finish my follow up post to Control is an Illusion You Need to Let Go
3. “from social media to social action: when awareness isn’t enough.” – remember while social media helps create awareness of issues, awareness does not equal action. No retweeting or sharing on Facebook does not count as action, despite what all the women who posted their bra color might think.
4. you buy wine, kids get books, its win win for everybody, even if its bad wine you can give it as gifts – nuf said
5. iPad is iBad for freedom – from Free Software Foundation – a must read if you care about DRM & open source & open access. While you’re at it read these: 8 Things That Suck About the iPad and The Problem with the Apple iPad like how I snuck 2 extra links in there?
6. Programme Transliteracy Conference 9 Feb 2010 - I am so sad I wasn’t able to find funding to attend this, I’ll be following closely online.
7. The Seth Godin Uber Echo Disaster! – I know I blogged about the echo chamber earlier this week, but I hope you’re still thinking about it.
8. The Relevance Economy: Why mattering matters. – an interesting read on the relevance of things, it is all relative.
9. google voice for iphone – RT @kenleyneufeld: Just tested and it works perfectly. Here’s a better link direct from god. – google voice is finally on the iphone
10. @curiouschild have you seen this? - monkeys are involved and my infatuation with Monkeys is well documented.

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Whether you are teaching a class, helping a friend or just looking for information for yourself these guides from Mashable are a great resource.

The Facebook Guide topics include:

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• Managing Your Facebook Wall
• Using Facebook for Business
• How to become a fan of Mashable
• Using Facebook Applications
• Facebook 305:Advanced Topics

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