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POPSCampus Gossip Sites - What to do? "Flaming," "cyberbullying" - call it what you will, but that is what these sites do. There are no ethics in the online world. It seems that who ever created this site, posted to this site, etc - is following the lead of Perez-Hilton, except these people are not famous. This is why you have to teach your kids about how to behave online. What will happen if your kids name is posted? your name?
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POPSWhat is the Buzz about? I was reading RWW and they posted this article on Yahoo Buzz. Does anyone out there know what this is? Do you use Digg? Would you switch? I kind of like the little bit that I am seeing of it. But I need more info so if you know...let me know. It's in Beta testing but the statistics are interesting - serious increase in hits and probably ad revenue. Thoughts?
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POPSOnline Images - Facebook & copyright I am teaching a unit on images and their use for the classroom. I found this really interesting post about how Facebook hijacks your rights to your images without people really knowing it. Now, I really hate Facebook.
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POPSReading Is Dead Not really but that's going to be my new shirt so I can be ironic. But here is a great op-ed piece by Tim Egan from the NYT about Steve Jobs and his ridiculous comment about how people do not read. Has he looked at "People Reading" blog or all the various book review blogs that people post, has he stepped into a library (school or public or university)? Well, from where I sit behind the reference desk, or on the metro or in a park...tons of people still read.
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POPSScholarship & the Read/Write Web During my undergraduate and graduate years, the libraries I used struggled with the ever increasing cost of scholarly peer-reviewed journals. Today, faculty in Harvard's arts & sciences department are going to vote on whether they want to publish their research on an open-access server maintained by the library. This is a great move. I know, I am completely biased. I love reading other people's research - a lot of librarians and educators - already use their blogs as a means of sharing their work and also working with others. I However, I do wonder about what types of issues with come up once this starts and people begin access it. There are issues of plagiarism, how it will effect existing journals, how it will effect those specific fields and I am just not sure if the detriment will out weigh the benefits.
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POPSBeacon, Facebook, privacy - Creepy I opted out of having Beacon on my Facebook page but I wonder now if it still tracks your information via your friends and contacts pages. Mister JT twittered about this and then sent me this link. It really is frightening how much companies can track you online and how they are using it. I read a someone's Vox post awhile back where they commented that they could not wait to see all the music and reading suggestions that would pop up one day...well, that day is now. The freaky thing is that it supposedly still tracks you even if you are logged off and non-users..even though they are denying it.
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POPSNew Favorite Site - Copenhagen Cycle Chic I was reading Bits and Bobbins and she linked to this great site about ladies who are stylish and bike around Copenhagen. I think this would be a great addition to the bike lanes that are in L.A. Green lights! How hard would it be to add reflective green lights to mark the bike lanes around L.A.? Way to go Copenhagen!
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