A Progressive Blogosphere. Save the Internet : Fighting for Internet Freedom. The Net Gen Myth. Responding to Norm Friesen, E-Learning Myth #1: The “Net Gen” Myth The major case againt the 'Net Gen Myth' is stated in Livingstone, Bober & Helsper, 2005. However, while the authors (such as Tapscott) describe the 'Net Gen' in terms of behaviours (as you say, "personal, multifunctional, wireless, multimedia, [and] communication-centric") the Livingstone, Bober & Helsper study responds to skills or capacities.
These are two very different things. Additionally, the Livingstone, Bober & Helsper methodologically suspect, dividing internet skills into two categories, embracing 'opportunities' and avoiding 'risks'. It is not clear (and not argued) that the opportunities listed are in fact opportunities, nor is it clear that the dangers are dangers. The latter category, in fact, is made up exclusively of access to pornography, revealing information, and having friends. But is this the myth, that the net generation is not defined exclusively by age? Of course not. S Alerts: Technorati and Newsweek. Technorati and Newsweek I'm proud to announce that Technorati and Newsweek are working together, including a deep integration of posts and links from bloggers (here's an example) into Newsweek's site.
This includes the Newsweek Blog Roundup and summary widget on every Newsweek page (shown here on the right). This acts just like a "most viewed articles" or "most emailed articles" widget - only the determinations are made by watching the number of bloggers that are linking to Newsweek articles. It shows the top 10 Newsweek stories generating the most discussion on Weblogs within the past 7 days. You can see it on the Newsweek homepage and on each of the article pages, simply scroll down a bit and look on the right hand side. In addition, Newsweek has launched a section covering the conversations in the blogosphere about Newsweek's columnists as well. My kudos to the folks at Newsweek for their forward thinking recognizing and including bloggers inside their tent. Weblogg-ed - The Read/Write Web in the Classroom : ..::littleoslo::..blogpoly. But the imagination goes on working. If you do not like to use AIM then choose the Chinese QQ to replace it.
If you do not like to use Instant Messenger for a railway station then choose browser to replace it. The number of visitors will become the amount of monopoly money you win. The houses and the hotels will become blogs. Perhaps you would like to create blogging-related messages for a deck of "Comment" cards and make a deck of "Trackback" cards, such as "Being attacked by hackers, you have to stop for 3 turnes. " or "Discover a political scandal and get 10000 page views" or " The server is down,lose 30% of your blog property".... more and more, perhaps there will be a "Blogpoly" published by Monopoly one day. At that time, we could go blogging together and join iN playing this game, which is advertising on acquiring, merger and monopoly. Actually Blogpoly is nearly the same as the real internet business world. More @ Plagiarize! Back to littleoslo.com. The New Gatekeepers | Civilities.
I will argue here that gatekeepers are inherently needed by the architecture of the blogosphere-- as it has evolved, since 2001, into a public consciousness. This architecture has been developed out of certain values, and those values are the ones espoused by those same thought leaders. That is not to say that there are other architecture, values, or leaders present; merely that this is the dominant form for the moment. (That there are other types of blogs with minimal involvement of the public interest, I have covered this at length in Blogger Archetypes .) This builds directly on the central thesis of Lawrence Lessig's important 1999 book Code and other laws of cyberspace . Seth Finkelstein recently called the book “an intellectual beacon... the significance of its importance cannot be overstatated as a standards-bearer,” and I share his enthusiasm.
The New Gatekeepers, Part 5: The Problem of Crowds The New Gatekeepers Part 1: Changing of the Guard › Rebecca blood :: weblogs: a history and perspective. About / archive / syndicate .: articles --> weblogs: a history and perspective 7 september 2000 In 1998 there were just a handful of sites of the type that are now identified as weblogs (so named by Jorn Barger in December 1997). Jesse James Garrett, editor of Infosift, began compiling a list of "other sites like his" as he found them in his travels around the web. Suddenly a community sprang up.
At this point, the bandwagon jumping began. This rapid growth continued steadily until July 1999 when Pitas, the first free build-your-own-weblog tool launched, and suddenly there were hundreds. The original weblogs were link-driven sites. Many current weblogs follow this original style. These weblogs provide a valuable filtering function for their readers. But this type of weblog is important for another reason, I think.
Now, during 1999 something else happened, and I believe it has to do with the introduction of Blogger itself. Why the change? So, what of the weblog? I don't have an answer. Incorporated subversion » Archive » Blogsavvy - your professional blogging consultant. Group And Multi-User Blog Platforms Compared - Robin Good's Latest News.