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Reinventing the conference, blogger and new media style
"What we want from a conference is not a surrogate intelligence of a big name speaker. What we want is a tide that delivers new and interesting things that present themselves in fresh and unexpectedly formed ways."
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Bummed I'm missing it, some great speakers there.
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Trench Warfare: Blogs, Podcasts and Vidcasts
"When you first start a blog, like The Simpsons, it’s a very badly drawn character. But as you continue, it starts to look more like you, you find your niche and you build your brand."
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YPulse conference on reaching youth using technology.
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Opening Space for Emerging Order
"Open Space Technology, as a definable approach to organizing meetings has been in existence for somewhat more than a dozen years."
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Identity and Identification in a Networked World
"This symposium will examine critical and controversial issues surrounding socio-technical systems of identity, identifiability and identification."
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"Come Out & Play is a festival dedicated to street games. It is three days of play, talks, and celebration, all focused on new types of games and play."
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Understanding the Unconference
"Because the cost to attend is minimal (or non-existent), anyone who wishes to can come. And because everyone at the unconference participates in some fashion, interaction, networking, and the exchange of ideas is a given.
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Influx is holding a cool looking conference on October 3, 2006.
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Some negative feedback from Umair Haque on Etech.
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Mobile Benchmark Data Reveals Widespread Use of Mobile Media, Including Games, Messaging and Ringtones
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Some key findings from the latest JupiterResearch online teen survey
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Notes from talk--The Real Deal: How Young Adults Spend Their Time Online
Susan Mernit: "from RSS and SMS to peer-to-peer file sharing, find out how newspapers can tap into the new information networks, and the audience was about 40 newspaper editors and one online news producer."
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Gadgets rule on college campuses
USA Today: "The American college campus, long an oasis of scholarship and coming-of-age, is now being transformed by a more palpable force: an armada of laptops, cell phones and perpetual connectivity."
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YPulse: An AOL Red survey said "...Half of the country's teenagers would rather open up and discuss their feelings with a blog than with their parents."
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Consumers Want Their Media On Demand And Online
Digital Connect: "People are exercising greater control over media and entertainment nowadays by accessing content through a variety of digital channels and devices"
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PSP, I Love You: For Gamers, The Date Has Finally Arrived
Washington Post: ""What portable gaming does is take video games to the public in the same way that the cell phone took communication out of the homes and into the street . . ."
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Tags Turning Web Chaos into Categories
eWeek: ""There is a behavior around tags that has nothing to do with categorization," Schachter said."
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A quarter of American adults who have cell phones have used the devices' text-messaging features within the past month, a new study finds.
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What Speakers Can Learn from Bloggers (and Vice Versa)
Beyond Bullets: "Look for the story. Don't contribute to our culture's Attention Deficit Disorder; help us to cure it. Out of all the information you see, what's most important? What does it all mean?"
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ClickZ: "A full 63 percent of cell phone users in the Generation Y demographic use SMS (define) compared to 31 percent of Generation X (ages 28 to 39) mobile phone users."
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New game of tagging may be "it"
Seattle Times: " Categorization fights the tyranny of infoglut. Compare a Google search on folksonomy with the del.icio.us tag and you quickly fathom the advantages of tagging for learning about a given topic."
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SXSW: daniel pink on "a whole new mind"
Many-to-Many: "Says that brevity, levity, and repetition are key to good talks. (And my snap judgment here? He’s an entertaining and interesting speaker.)"
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Web Personalization: Technology, Opportunities and Risks
A syllabus that includes some great links
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All around the Net, but underused by news sites
OJR: "So far, most newspapers have done little to develop the tools required to enable interesting, broad networks needed to foster ongoing relationships with their readers."
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Non-traditional media gain ground, consumers
USA Today: "One of the consequences is that, increasingly, citizens can no longer agree on basic facts "because everyone is consuming their own kind of personal mix of media."
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Cell phone use booms, despite uneven service
Some research data from the CTIA
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Dave Sifry of Technorati: "State of The Blogosphere, March 2005, Part 1: "
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Encouraging the spread of mobile phones is the most sensible and effective response to the digital divide
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Think of a Number ... Come On, Think!
What are impact of cell phones on our memory?
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Washington Post talks about the use of wikis in the classroom
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Backpacks, Lunch Boxes and Cells?
Nearly Half of US Teens and Tweens Have Cell Phones, According to NOP World mKids Study
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Another survey by BlogAds that includes over 30,000 blog readers
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Understanding the Internet generation
Blake Ross: "I want to understand now why today’s admissions climate makes students crave the decision, what’s unique about my generation that so affords this craving, and how we can make progress toward curing both."
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Blogs Not Yet in the Media Big Leagues
Gallup poll that examines the demographics of blog readership
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What happens when advertisers pull their money from television?
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“Media Multi-tasking� Changing the Amount and Nature of Young People’s Media Use
Press release from the Kaiser Family Foundation
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Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds
The study, Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds, examined media use among a nationally representative sample of more than 2,000 3rd through 12th graders who completed detailed questionnaires, including nearly 700 self-selected participants w
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Center For Parent/Youth Understanding
A good resource for youth research
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Essential Facts about the Computer and Video Game Industry (PDF)
From the Electronic Software Association
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What Are Video Games Turning Us Into?
What are the long terms effects of videogame usage? Will it create a future workforce happy to sit in front of their computers?
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Cameraphones as Personal Storytelling Media
The cameraphone exists at this moment in that ephemeral, potent and confusing phase of its adoption cycle where people are still deciding what kind of social medium it is.
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"Make way for The Mobiles" is a newly released SYNAPSE report (pdf) produced by The Media Center on mobility as a cultural imperative. How Wireless technologies bring "We Media" to news, information strategies.
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Going Online: Youth & the Internet
A brief look at the numbers of children and teens accessing the Internet and what they do online. (2003)
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How the playlist generation will reinvent radio
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Frito-Lay Urges "Millennials" to Seize the Moment
Info on the new Doritos campaign that asks INNW? (If Not Now When?)
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Mobiles 'part of social fabric'
On Gen Y: "But increasingly I think we are going to see this group looking at the devices and means to reach out to the world and pull the world towards them and to re-order and re-structure it actually on the phone."
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Forget wikis, blogs and other online learning tools -- one professor says the future of higher education is mobile.
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South Korean Students Burned for SMS Cheating
Info about the South Korean SMS cheating scandal
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A Room With A View: TVs Still Beat PCs In Kids Bedrooms
Looking at the cultural effects of having TVs and internet in children's bedrooms
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The Devaluation of Information
From Terry Heaton's TV News in a Postmodern World. Discusses the effects the internet has on the value of information.
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Mobile backup failure puts friendships in peril
A third of mobile users don't keep a separate record of important numbers
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The Web Not the Death of Language
Turns out that college students who communicate online are not butchering the language as many are led to believe.
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Cultural divide in IM: presence vs. communication
There's a divide between different kinds of IM users, one is constantly online and the other shows up to talk
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Open Windows Into Your Students' Souls
Build Student Response by Replacing Paper-And-Pen Journals with Online Forums and 'Secret Identities'
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11 percent of the US population owns an MP3 player
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From Personalization to Socialization
"Replace the word information with relationship, and you get how people want to use the net, with other people."
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SMS Text Messaging and Youth Culture
Thoughts on the importance of text messaging in youth culture
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Colleges' Land Lines Nearing Silent End
"It used to be you'd call someone because you had a reason to call," said Ian Johnson, 28, a graduate student at American. "Now you call because you're bored waiting for the bus to come. . . . It's almost a noise pollution."
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A generation lost in its personal space
New technology is bringing to light philosopher Martin Heidegger's observation that technology is the art of arranging the world so that we don't have to experience it.
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