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Top Ten Links Week 36, Calling 911 from a Mobile, Women in Tech, A Kindle Tip and More

September 12, 2010
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Top Ten Links Week 36, Calling 911 from a Mobile, Women in Tech, A Kindle Tip and More

My personal select top ten links from Twitter 9/3/2010 through 9/9/2010. The best of the best and/or the most important stuff I tweeted last week. 1. Technology is not an ‘either/or’ and the Internet is an expression of our deep craving for connection. Great BBC video via dmlcentral Great video from the Virtual Revolution of  Stephen Fry talking about technology. 2. Transliteracy Research Group: The Shallows and how I stopped reading it in favour of gazing out of the window an interesting look at isolation, connectedness, multitasking and engagement from Sue Thomas. 3. Simple Tip Turns Kindle into Ultimate News Reader – My Kindle came last week so I am on the look out for tips to get the most out of it. This post tells you how to use it to read your Google Reader feeds. 4. IT in the Age of the Empowered Employee – This is a plug for a book, Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business, one I full intend to read. If you run an IT department or deal with one it looks like this is worth reading. 5. The Dirty Truth About Digital Fasts – I could easily quote the whole article. Seriously go

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Top Ten Links Week 18

May 7, 2010
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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 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

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