Where Do They Find The Time?

April 30, 2008 – 11:21 am

Clay Shirky recently posted a transcript of his Web 2.0 Expo keynote.
…If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project — every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in — that represents something like the cumulation of 100 [...]

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It’s Not About Technology, Stupid

May 14, 2007 – 12:27 pm

Inside Higher Ed asks Are College Students Techno Idiots? Slashdot summarized it this way:
Are college students techno idiots? Despite the inflammatory headline, Inside Higher Ed asks an interesting question. The article refers to a recent study by ETS, which analyzed results from 6,300 students who took its ICT Literacy Assessment. The findings show that students [...]

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Email Is For Old People

April 10, 2006 – 12:12 pm

I happened to stumble back onto the Pew Internet Report on teens and technology from July 2005 that report that told us ?87% of [US children] between the ages of 12 and 17 are online.? But the part I’d missed before regarded how these teens were using communication technology:
Email, once the cutting edge ?killer app,? [...]

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The Web Is Not A One-Way Medium

February 5, 2006 – 11:28 am

Anybody who questioned the Pew Internet and American Life report about how teens use the internet and how they expect conversations and interactivity from the online services they use might do well to take a look at this comment on my Chernobyl Tour story:
Student Looking for Info that your not give us
February 3rd, 2006 10:11
you [...]

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Internet, Interactivity, & Youth

November 8, 2005 – 1:40 pm

Jenny Levine alerted me to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report on teens as both content creators and consumers.
It turns out that teens, and teen girls especially, are highly active online IMing, sharing photos, blogging, reading and commenting on other’s blogs, and gaming. An especially strong trend in this group is the use [...]

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