The 'interestingness curators' of social news. David Rowan Editor of Wired magazine I write The Digital Life, a monthly tech column in our sister Conde Nast magazine, GQ. This is my column from last month's issue (dated December). Subscribe to GQ. Maria Popova calls herself an "interestingness curator". It's more an obsessive hobby than a job -- Popova works in New York for an ad agency -- but to thousands of iPad users @brainpicker now serves as a radical new form of daily magazine. In his prescient 1995 book Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte, the visionary founder of MIT's Media Lab, described how customised daily news would one day find you through "personal filters" that would understand your desires and interests.
Welcome to the new era of social curation. Popova, for one, is convinced. It seems I'm not alone: a Pew survey of more than 2,200 Americans recently found that 75 percent of news consumed online was via links from social networking sites or email. It's a welcome trend -- with two qualifications. VoiceThread Image Attribution. <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there!
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Twitter Rubric. Blog Archive » The Web’s third frontier. Everyone realizes that the web is entering a new phase in its development. One indication of this transition is the proliferation of attempts to explain the changes that are occurring. Functional explanations emphasize the real time web, collaborative systems and location-based services.
Technical explanations argue that the interconnectivity of data is the most significant current development. They consider the web’s new frontiers to be closely related to the semantic web or the “web of things”. Although these explanations are both pertinent and intriguing, none of them offers an analytical matrix for assessing the developments that are now underway. In contrast, other explanations are far too broad to serve any useful purpose.
How can the web’s development be understood? The web represents a compendium of technical resources, functionalities and usage practices, and it cannot be reduced to just one of these dimensions. The founding principles The two initial phases of growth. Magazine That Plagarized Blogger’s Article to Fold [REPORT] Editing your Google Docs on the go - Official Google Docs Blog. Tweeting Students Earn Higher Grades Than Others in Classroom Experiment - Wired Campus. Students chatting on Twitter both inside and outside the classroom got higher grades than their nontweeting peers in a recent experiment conducted at a medium-size public institution in the Midwest. At the end of the semester, the tweeters had grade-point averages half a point higher, on average, than did their nontweeting counterparts.
And students who tweeted were more engaged. Twitter users scored higher than those who didn’t use the tool on a 19-question student-engagement survey over the course of the semester—using parameters like how frequently students contributed to classroom discussion, and how often they interacted with their instructor about course material. The results of the experiment were published in the latest issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning in an article titled “The Effect of Twitter on College Student Engagement and Grades.” Researchers did not reveal the name of the university involved to protect the identities of the students. MindMeister. Edutopia: What Works in Public Education. Anchal.