Monthly Archives: January 2011

Twitpocalypse

It appears that Apple iPhone and Touch twitters are encountering problems. No it is not a virus. It turns out that tweets are assigned a unique number and this number has grown extremely large. Those of us who use Twitterriffic … Continue reading

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Economist – Time Spent

This article from the Economist offers some interesting information concerning international differences in the time expected of students. Time differences seem to account for a lot and extending the time students spent is pretty much the core idea in the … Continue reading

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50 ways to Use Twitter in College Classrooms

This link looks interesting and should be immediately relevant to my own students presently working on blog applications in education.

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Today Show – Increasing Importance of Public Libraries

The Today Show offered an interesting piece on the increasing use of public libraries. Internet access is a large part of this change. People looking for work and people giving up their home wifi are showing up at libraries to … Continue reading

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Relative growth of social network sites

Interesting data on relative change in social sites. Facebook is still growing. Twitter stalls.

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Time Magazine Feature on Twitter

Twitter has unsuspected depth.   Really? Time has made Twitter a cover story. Read the article. Maybe it will help explain what is supposedly useful in 140 character Tweets.

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