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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: web 2.0

  • MySpace tricks and info

    If you are an adult wanting to (at least attempt) to stay current on digital social networking (DSN) sites like MySpace, you might check out the Wetpaint MySpace site. The MySpace security tips are good, and the Adding Features page includes instructions I’m sure I’ll return to in upcoming weeks when I find time to…

  • MySpace getting safer?

    The June 30th article “Can this man make MySpace safe for kids?” in Fortune magazine details some of the recent changes at MySpace.com since the company owning it hired Hemanshu Nigam to promote safety and stem a potential tide of lawsuits resulting from LMIRL DSN exchanges (LMIRL = let’s meet in real life, DSN =…

  • Tor, Anonymity and IT department tracking

    Lots of VERY interesting stories in the last couple of days at the COSN/Texas CTO Council conference in Dallas, Texas, regarding situations where IT departments are catching school employees as well as students going inappropriate places on school networks using tools like Lightspeed and others. Tonight, I learned about (via Miguel) a new software program…

  • Parents getting more involved in DSN

    I don’t know if anyone else has already come up with one, but I think we need to start using an acronym for “digital social networking.” How about DSN? (The military loves acronyms, and I am finding that corporate America does too.) I went ahead and created a new English WikiPedia page for “Digital Social…

  • imbee supports safe digital networking for kids!

    I strongly believe adults in schools and elsewhere should be helping students learn how to safely and appropriately navigate digital social networking environments, rather than merely banning the use of all of them. As I’ve previously noted, Think.com is an outstanding social networking site for students in schools. Now there is another alternative, imbee.com, specifically…

  • Awesome reflections on Web 2.0

    David Warlick posted his presentation about web 2.0 as a series of 4 podcasts episodes (look for #61) on his Connect Learning podcast recently, and this evening as I’ve been working on other things I listened to the first three segments. Fantastic stuff here, I highly commend it to you. A few things I liked…

  • Blocking social networking sites is an insufficient response

    I was quoted in a Dallas Morning News article yesterday titled, “Teen gangs find voice on Web.” The article highlights how students in gangs (and some possibly wanting to be in gangs) are using social networking spaces like Bebo and MySpace to express themselves, communicate with others, and share their voices with the world. (I…

  • Thoughts on DOPA

    Great Bit by Bit podcast recently by Bob Sprankle and Cheryl Oakes on the proposed DOPA legislation in the US. Refer to their podcast shownotes for some good background links and other opinion pieces. I appreciated a lot of their insights– and I don’t think Bob digressed too much with his Star Wars analogy of…

  • Help with the USCOTW

    WikiPedia invites you to join the USCOTW: the “US Collaboration of the Week.” You don’t have to live in the US to help out! For two weeks the focus is on George Washington. The site allows you to vote for other nominated topics, or nominate new ones. Have students at home for the summer that…

  • Podcast59: Interactive Podcasting– Asynchronous Online Audio Discussions

    Podcasting, along with blogging, is playing a pivotal role in ushering in a new era of decentralized content publishing and idea sharing across the globe. Like any other tool, podcasting can be utilized in various ways to serve diverse purposes. This article examines two emerging read/write web technology services, YackPack and Vaestro, which are extending…