Tag: socialmedia

bookmarks for January 13th, 2012 through January 16th, 2012

Man sued for keeping company Twitter followers – One for Weblogs and Wikis and A&E: "Corporate control of Twitter accounts has been a highly debated subject. Legal experts believe this latest case could set a precedent for future ownership tussles." – (twitter IP socialmedia )
Twitter Etiquette: In A Little More Than 140 Characters – – (twitter etiquette socialmedia )

#fuckyouwashington « BuzzMachine – The start of the #fuckyouwashington hashtag escspade. How a hash gets started and moving. – (twitter hashtag erhetoric #en3177 )
No one owns a hashtag « BuzzMachine – From the originator of #fuckyouwashington, which created a minor hashblurp. Some thoughts on how the tag functions socially. – (twitter hashtag # fyw fyc erhetoric en3177 )
Losing interest in social media: there is no there there – George Siemans placing social media (FB, Twitter, g+) in its place. Ephemeral. Distribution. Theres a place for the ephemeral, the emotive, but the considered work is foundational. I was thinking the same thing – even g+ is California – but more as a matter of pace and obligation: g+ and others demand a pace and regularity that I’m just not interested in engaging. Nor are many of my students.”What has Twitter and Facebook done for me? Nothing, really. Other than perhaps attending to my emotive needs of being connected to people when I’m traveling and whining.
Social media=emotions.
Blogging/writing/transparent scholarship=intellect.
Put another way, Twitter/Facebook/G+ are secondary media.” – (Twitter g+ FB socialmedia socialnetworking social_obligations scholarship2.0 )

Tenure Awarded Based in Part on Wikipedia Contributions – Watching the Watchers – Finally. Let's hope it's the first of many. – (wikipedia scholarship2.o socialpractices )
The death of Fame: anonymity in the age of digital activism – Fame is changing, and is pinned to the medium: broadcast constructed, to viewer constructed, to popularity, to crowd sourcing master. – (fame #en3177 socialmedia activism )

Dear Michael: An Open Letter From The Present About The Future Of Your Past – A brief article on giving up social media for blogging and letter writing as one way of making the trace of an online life coherent. Places the blog as a space to collect one's thoughts. – (history en3177 socialmedia identity fragmentation )
the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum and other register measurements – Standards of measurement based on EU standards for fruit and pasta, double-decker buses, and the area of Wales. Yeah? And using feet, inches, or even millimeters are any different? – (standards parody EU )
Traction Software, Inc. | Blog1424: Intertwingled Work – What it says on the tin. A bang on bloggy essay (repurposing and demonstration for you en3177 people) on interconnectedness, findability, addressability, and differences between transactional systems and social systems. – (en2177 findability essay socialsystems transliteracy blogging )

Gary Hamel on Managing Generation Y – the Facebook Generation – WSJ – Seems I've seen these 12 points before – can't recall where, but they are familiar. Anyway, brief, light-weight toss-off article homogenizes The Kids by working backwards from characteristics of some web interactions to characterizing the Coming Workers. – (management facebook newmedia socialmedia fyc fluff )
The Eight-Word Mission Statement – Harvard Business Review – The short form forces concision, but it can also be used to generate possibles. 'Starr insists that companies he funds can express their mission statement in under eight words. They also must follow this format: "Verb, target, outcome."' It'd add "means." – (genre generator mission shortform twitter statement branding )

Brian Lamb calls for open access to academic knowledge – Comments on Brian Lamb's comments on OER at London conference. It's criminal, not to share. – (OER education openeducation wikihandbook )
Ben Davis on social media art – artnet Magazine – "Is there any more interesting way to think about the topic than the loose and impressionistic manner that it is currently framed?" Of course there is. And the doscussion is just getting started. – (semiotics social_art socialmedia newmedia rhetoric )

Slashdot Ask Slashdot Story | Your Online Education Experience? – Brief entry and extended discussion on DE including Walden, Phoenix, and state unis, being self-taught, the value of a degree. Anecdotal, but broad. – (de ple education twwt )
ZSR | The Future Of – Blogging as Scholarship – We've turned the corner on scholarly blogging. Next you know, Time will cover it. Some valuable links in this short post. "If scholars are to be truly evaluated on their impact to the field, a blog that fosters healthy debate and discussion, and ideally advances ideas or problems within the field, is a strong indicator of immediate impact. " – (blogging scholarship2.0 socialmedia twwt en3177 )