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2012
February
12Communication and Social Change
January
7Hello Avatar [Goodbye little 'ole me?]
5Psychopathic bankers
5What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success


2011
December
21Žižek at Occupy Wall Street
17Lee Jeffries
17Vocabulary Quiz
17Word of the Year 2011
16Christopher Hitchins 1949-2011
14Speilberg’s ‘Face’
11Lads Mags & Sex Offenders
11Everyone Speaks Text Message
6afghanistan
6Uta Frith on Dyslexia and Autism
4The Wisdom of Motivated Crowds
3superstition
November
30creative rebranding
29Photographic Memory
29Webcam
24Found Images
23The Umbrella Man
23Planned Obsolescence
13BT Culture
11The brain people
11The psychopathic bosses
9Dyslexia: cultural or neurological?
8Kurzweil on Creative Working
7Lying
6Intelligent Design?
4Privacy, learning and trust
2Are Utilitarians Psychopaths?
1Eight Hugs a Day
October
29Deindividuation: You Are Not So Smart
25Making the familiar unfamiliar
15John Gray
12Counting emotions
11Neils Bohr on learning
10We are a Mashup
9McLuhan: the global village
9Marshall McLuhan: Douglas Coupland
6Batelle on Identity
5Sendak on Ebooks
5Long books & Ebooks
4Fluid Identity
4The morality of gender inequality
3Hashtag philosophy
2Learn a new language …
2Digital Futures?
September
29The NHS Dreams and Nightmares
29‘I am Troy Davis’
27Delicious gets a makeover
26Does TV have a conscience?
26Identities; Gender and Ethnicities
26The market maketh man
26The Fez International Forum
25Fry on Language
24How Do You Say ‘Economic Security’? – NYTimes
22Creative/Addictive
21Mobile’s ubiquity
21Writing in ink
20Cutting edge technology
8John Coffer
8Seeing is believing?
6Marshall McLuhan or … Tommy Cooper?
August
24Wendell Berry: Identity
23Sherry Turkle: Identity technologies
July
26The New Religion
25Further Resources
14Nicholas Carr: Get on my lawn, kids
7Creative Commons
7Wendell Berry
3Johann Hari: Plagiarism or not?
1One Day on Earth Video Map Trailer on Vimeo
1HE in an open market
June
27Crowd sourcing the book …
27The great thinkers of the last 63 years – all in one place
27Anglo-Saxon – The History of English (1/10)
24Why an ideology of choice is not conducive to social change
23Uberveillance
21Everything is a Remix Part 3 on Vimeo
17Reading Books on iPad & Kindle–a comparison
15Daniel Kraft: Medicine’s future? There’s an app for that
15The UnCommon Core
14People Argue Just to Win
14Times Higher Education – US unplugged: manifold benefits of disconnected learning
13I Read Where I am
10Adam Curtis
9It takes Twitter to recover a stolen laptop
6YouTube editor meets Creative Commons
May
28Meeting People 2.0
27Life 2.0
27Brian Eno | Drums Between The Bells
27Privacy Amidst Public Data
24Baby Face by c15307
24Answer Garden – brainstorming on the fly
24France Reforms HE without punishing HE
24Amazon sells more Kindle books than print books
20Powers’ Hamlet’s Blackberry
18Language and the academy
17Interviews – Sherry Turkle | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS
17Adbusters Culturejammer – Slow down week
1New World Notes: Take This Fascinating Academic Survey on Avatars & Real Life Identity
1DiGRA Digital Library
1How Second Life Affects Real Life – TIME
1World of Warcraft in School
1Virtual world registered accounts breakthrough 1bn | KZERO – Blog
1New World Notes: Take This Fascinating Academic Survey on Avatars & Real Life Identity
1DiGRA Digital Library
1How Second Life Affects Real Life – TIME
1World of Warcraft in School
1Virtual world registered accounts breakthrough 1bn | KZERO – Blog
April
25Oxford Internet Institute – Research – Projects – Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age
25An 8 year-old asks …
25The Edublogger
25Teaching students about Creative Commons and appropriate use of images
25YouTube Copyright School
25Oxford Internet Institute – Research – Projects – Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age
24Jemima Kiss: How I kicked my digital habit
24Analogue artists defying the digital age | Culture | The Observer
18Freesouls – You Can’t Own Knowledge
18Postman
15The Technium: What Books Will Become
12‘Of course there’s a new luddism!’ Shirky
6Brightworks: An Extraordinary School
March
31Teaching for the 21st Century
31Larry MacDonald: Educational Technology Breakthrough: Let Kids Teach Each Other
31The Digital Generation Rediscovers the Magic of Manual Typewriters – NYTimes.com
31Khan Academy is an Indictment of Education | Action-Reaction
31MIT OpenCourseWare: A Decade of Global Benefit
30Quakebook – publishing response quake in Japan – a triumph of good will and social media
30The politics of parenting
30Libya Crisis Map
30Disaster Relief 2.0: The future of information sharing in humanitarian emergencies
30Kevin Kelly: The 6 Verbs For The Next 20 Years Of The Connected World
30Desktop future is “the room”
30Meet +1: Google’s Answer To The Facebook Like Button
30BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Midweek, 30/03/2011
27Daring Fireball: The Chair
27iPad GarageBand app
27About the 100 Thing Challenge | A Guy Named Dave
27Lifelogging, Lifestreaming
25The Fake Digital Britain Report
25Current ICT and Computer Science in schools – damaging to UK’s future economic prospects? | Royal Society
25UK ICT classes killing kids’ interest in tech
25Scottish iSchool goes 100% iPad
22One Billion Minds
224 Surprising Google Wave Uses
224 Surprising Google Wave Uses
15Looking beyond learning: notes towards the critical study of educational technology
12OER Glue – Are we getting nearer to Google University?
12The Disappearance of Technology: Toward an Ecological Model of Literacy
12Shakespeare Never Lost a Manuscript to a Computer Crash
12Roszak on writing and computers
12From A Better Pencil by Dennis Barron
11Sugata Mitra: The Granny Cloud
11Anya Kamenetz and the Open Education Movement
11Salman Khan
9OER and P2PU: Talk at Indira Gandhi National Open University
8Sal Khan
8Sal Khan TED 2011
8SolarNetOne: Solar-powered networking for anyone
8Blog | Postdigital Encounters | Defining the postdigital
8The Project | Fab@Home
7Opening the doors to learning
7Personal Learning Networks
7Churnalism
6Literacy and Inanimate Alice
5Do conspiracy theories feed off network theory?
5Music sharing/distribution
4Online Metal – music sharing/collaboration
4TED Prize Winner JR & INSIDE OUT on Vimeo
4Hypertext 3.0: critical theory and … – Google Books
4Lanier on the information flood
4The impact of information on human affairs
4Information infiltrates and possesses
4First usage of the phrase ‘information age’
3TOC 2011: Kevin Kelly, “Better than Free: How Value Is Generated in a Free Copy World”
2InfoWorld – Hypercard: From 1988
12010 Horizon Report » One Year or Less: Open Content
1REM and Remix
February
28How Technology Wires the Learning Brain | MindShift
28World of Ends
27Marshall McLuhan Speaks – Centennial 2011
24Internet is easy prey for governments – Rushkoff
23The Age of Transparency
22Post Modern Times
22Ain’t No Grave: The Johnny Cash Project
22Ain’t No Grave: The Johnny Cash Project
17John Zerzan on technology
17Ideas for modern living: collaborative consumption
17Collaborative Consumption
14BBC Radio 4 The Secret History of Social Networking, Episode 3
13How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
13Experts Recommend Tech Detoxes to Help Us Unplug From Devices and Reconnect With Those We Love – WSJ.com
10Weapons of Mass Consumption – Reason Magazine
10The History of Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]
8Openness as Catalyst for an Educational Reformation (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
8Why Education is not a Commodity | Putney Debater
8Why educate yourself?
8DABBLERR – Personalising education
7Henry Giroux: Beyond the Swindle of the Corporate University
6Podcast
5BBC News – Today – Privacy in the ‘transition world’
5Interview with Andre Keen
5Table of Contents | Next Digital Decade
January
31How to create an online radio station for FREE
31Thinking about a Dept. website
31Testing Kaltura
31Spotlight Again Falls on Web Tools and Change – NYTimes.com
29Use Facebook to keep in touch … with Facebook
29Divorce spreads through social networks
29Mind Your Tweets: The CIA Social Networking Surveillance System
28BBC Radio 4 – The Secret History of Social Networking, Episode 1
26A compilation of the work of John Taylor Gatto
26BBC One – Panorama, Too Much Too Young
25Higher Ed: Revolution or Evolution?
25The Twitter Experiment – UT Dallas
25David Gauntlett – Participation Culture – Pt. 1
24Michael Wesch – Rethinking Education
24Social media glossary
24Networked production still needs face-to-face: student speaks
21Soylent: A Word Processor With A Crowd Inside | Beyond The Beyond
21World’s First Crowdsourced Book
20Sugata Mitra: The Granny Cloud – Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Learning
2010 ways data is changing how we live – Telegraph – Education
20Re-defining mainstream media
19Shirky on Tools
19Aleks Krotoski and Clay Shirky debate the potential of the internet – chieftech’s blog
19BBC News – Ofcom report highlights ‘multi-tasking media users’
16Web 2.0: Definition
16A historical perspective on change: Alvin Toffler Future Shock
16Wikipedia, past and present | Pew Internet & American Life Project
15Why the internet is so powerful in comparison to TV
15See what happens when kids & teachers are empowered to run a school
15Tools for the 21st Century Teacher
15BBC News – Your teacher has now joined Facebook
14Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction | TheLedger.com
14Freedom – Turning off noise and distraction
13Wolfram Alpha Takes on Education With Algebra, Calculus & Music Theory Apps
13New Technologies Helped in Novel Ways with Haiti Earthquake Relief – Knight Foundation
12Media owners [Education?] – learn the lessons from other disrupted industries | Rory Brown
10Ken Robinson – Changing Education Paradigms
10rate my teacher – a competitor for ofsted?
10Surveillance in schools
10Charles Leadbeater Educa Berlin
10Handheld Learning – Game Changer: Is it iPad?
10iPad hides the techie interior
10Top 10 social media dashboard tools
10Guide to monitoring social media conversations
7Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens – Dec 12 09
7Neil Postman – Bullshit and the Art of Crap-Detection « Critical Thinking Snippets
6Scripting News: Rebooting RSS, revisited
5My PLN Blueprint in 5 parts « My Island View
5Pointed Response to NYT Article on iPads in Schools | HASTAC
5Orson Scott Card: How ‘Friend’ Became a Verb – WSJ.com
5The Future of Reading and Writing is Collaborative | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning
5Dave Rand on The Online Laboratory: Taking Experimental Social Science onto the Internet | Berkman Center
5More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool – NYTimes.com
5Internet Surpasses Television as Main News Source for Young Adults
5Robert Scoble On Online Curation – HowardRheingold – blip.tv
5Pierre Levy on Collective Intelligence Literacy – HowardRheingold – blip.tv
4Are You An Internet Optimist or Pessimist? The Great Debate over Technology’s Impact on Society
4Facebook – an information glut – chaos of information
2Twitter Literacy (I refuse to make up a Twittery name for it) : Howard Rheingold : City Brights
2Shelly Terrell: Global Netweaver, Curator, PLN Builder | DMLcentral
2Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
2With every technology there’s a dark side: When Computers Keep Watch


2010
December
31London the capital of private tuition – Sutton Trust
30Book of Web Tools for Educators
30The Innovative Educator: The Complete Guide to Facebook For Educators!
30Clive Thompson on How Tweets and Texts Nurture In-Depth Analysis | Magazine
30The world is so small
28Brave new world: Teachers find benefits of digital technology
28Top 5 Blog Posts on Digital Media and Learning for 2010 | DMLcentral
28Google Pushes Education Software Through App Store – BusinessWeek
23Social Networks – Paul Adams
22Counting on Google Books – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
20Will the word processor destroy our ability to think?
20Remember, Google search results are opinions generated by programmers
19How the Internet Will Save Civilization
17Playing to Learn
17Limits of ICT in education – Views – livemint.com
17Education Eyelet – a news dashboard from Future Lab
17Word Lens
17Kids’ Books Make The Leap Off The Page And Online : NPR
14A Review of Douglas Rushkoff’s “Program or Be Programmed” | Social Memory Complex
14A Review of Douglas Rushkoff’s “Program or Be Programmed” | Social Memory Complex
14Connected
7A year is a long time … on the net
7Executive Summary « 2010 Horizon Report: Museum Edition
7California’s education outlook: huge classes, shorter school years, less learning
6How Google’s New Online Bookstore Will Change Your School | Edudemic
6How to measure Facebook Page fan growth and engagement
6eXtending the Web – a gaze into the future « HeyJude
4Reading and the Web – Texts Without Context
4Creative Commons: What every Educator needs to know
3Tom Chatfield: 7 ways video games engage the brain
39 Out Of 10 Students Text During Class, Study Shows
3Udemy: A Free Online University for All
3Education Week: The Classroom Is Not a Factory
3Crowdsourcing Kids’ Creativity – A Project To Be A Part Of
3Shout: About the Project
November
29Mimi Ito: When Youth Own the Public Education Agenda
27Steve Hargadon: The Divided Stories of Education Reform, Personal Cognitive Revolutions, and New Superheroes
27What Technology Wants: KK Reviews his own book
27New Rules for the New Economy
27The Technium: Technophilia
26Seth Godin on Education
26Steve Hargadon: Interview with John Taylor Gatto, Critic of Compulsory Schooling
25Evolution of Email — Infographic Labs
25GlastoTag – One huge photo. A whole load of tags.
25LRB · Ross McKibbin · Nothing to do with the economy
25The War in Iraq: The case of Britain – Media Content Analysis
24Celebrity journalism: the end is nigh?
24SymbalooEDU | PLE | Personal Learning Environment
24New Statesman – Law breakers and lawmakers
24YouTube Mobile Use Exploding: 75% Report Mobile is Primary Way of Watching YouTube
24Working on the web « Expedient Means
23Cuts, deficits and universities
14The problem with rhetoric
11Bush defends waterboarding
9Books: Industry and Apps
6Thinking Bilingual
October
21Printing from & reading on the web
September
21Google, Cuba and Transparency
14Boys will be girls
3Friends or not?
1Did you know?
July
28Dead Ringers
22Tracy Goodwin speaks British
21The Death or Dearth of Books?
19Mediated
16Experts, opinions and options
15Cuba and Filtering software
13Tzvetan Todorov, Cuba and Exile
7Staring at the cloud: The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr
June
22Todorov and the RSA: Defending the Enlightenment
18Hello world!
17Atton: Bringing alternative media practice to theory
9Reading Jaron Lanier – You are not a Gadget: A Manifesto
May
31New Politics? Closeted Cabinet Minister resigns
31Reading ‘Connected’ by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler
3Thoughts on May day in Cuba
April
28Wolfish philosophy: Reading The Philosopher and the Wolf by Mark Rowlands
25Fact and Fiction? Reading David Shield’s Reality Hunger
21Dissidents or unhappy Cubans?
21Is the one, anonymous multi-authored set of fragments the future of the book?
21What really makes us intelligent?
March
31Jane the January Fairy
31Clowt, Cuba and Yoani Sanchez
29Using Slideshare to create portable playlists
29Here’s how the US army is using social media
24Using a Yahoo pipe to translate tweets
18A Digital Noticeboard for the UG Programme
3New unit launched
January
22Clinton: do the right thing
19Lecture slides and blogsites


2009
November
22Quick tip – bookmarklets
14Photoblogs for your Google Reader
13World Bank Data
13Requesting tutorial times
12New media new journalism
8Autumn rutting
8Archie – the first web search engine
7Protection through attention
6Consumer influence
5Generating Content – you just don’t know it
October
9Screaming on Twitter
September
18Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe
11Legalisation of internet access in Cuba
5Morozov: From slacktivism to activism
1Commercial of the year
1Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text | Wired Science | Wired.com
August
28Friday
28New test
21Cities of the Plain: The Border Trilogy Volume 3
15Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice
14The Crossing: The Border Trilogy Volume 2
13The lost art of reading
13After the boom, is Wikipedia heading for bust?
13All the Pretty Horses: The Border Trilogy Volume 1
9Assorted Links (weekly)
2Assorted Links (weekly)
July
28twitter @downingstreet
26Assorted Links (weekly)
21Shirky on Newspapers – Not an Upgrade — an Upheaval
19Assorted Links (weekly)
17summer reading
17now this is pretty
12Assorted Links (weekly)
5Assorted Links (weekly)
June
23Blog reading lists
23when marketing becomes unsettling
22imitation
21Assorted Links (weekly)
7Assorted Links (weekly)
May
31Assorted Links (weekly)
24Assorted Links (weekly)
20Futuresonic 2009 (3)
20Assorted Links 05/20/2009
19Assorted Links 05/19/2009
18Futuresonic 2009 (2)
16Assorted Links 05/16/2009
14futuresonic 2009 (1)
14Assorted Links 05/14/2009
12Assorted Links 05/12/2009
11animoto, mtv and cloud computing
11Assorted Links 05/11/2009
9Links 05/09/2009
April
24The power of personal recommendation
10Mapping the power of information report
2the G20 summit & social media
March
31data visualisation from the Guardian
30Internet access and the digital divide
27waking up in a data state
26Collaborative Institutions
17Lovink: Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse
13The Government & social media
February
17introducing identity
January
30English identity
19Proxy blogs From Cuba
13Heidegger – The Question
13Flat Earth News – Nick Davies
12Prometheus Wired – Darin Barney
7Radical Democracy & the Internet Ch 12


2008
December
30Principles of a new media literacy – Dan Gillmor
21Citizen Journalism vs Established Journalism – Flickr discussion
21A year in user generated content: 2008
18Interview with Yoani in 233grados.com
18El Caso Mariela Castro
17Cuban journalists in prison 2008
17Hyperbole over Cyberspace: Eleonor Wynn
15Mother Jones: Cuba’s Blogger Crackdown
15The end of the end of revolution in Cuba: NY Times article
14Cuba 50 years on – The Independent
13Damas de blanco
12Yoani’s message to the blogosphere
10Category feeds in blogger/blogspot
10Hacktivism in China?
10Three perspectives on the Cuban Revolution
9The Media in Castro’s Cuba
9Radical Democracy & the Internet Ch 5
9Extensive Bibliography
8Good and bad bloggers in Cuba
7Blogroll – Cuba
7Bloggers in Cuba find a way
5Radical Democracy and the Internet Ch 1
5Opposition to bloggers meeting
3Reclaiming the streets with CCTV
2The Seven Ages of Kylie Minogue: Postmodernism, Identity, and Performative Mimicry
November
30Twitter comes of age
25The era of the PC is over …
25Collaboration
25An Ongoing Self
16Internet addiction a mental disorder?
11Cuban Journalism Wiki
October
31Links
29Reader, I didn’t marry him
26Blogs and the diaspora
19Oil reserved change the picture
19Does the internet bring a more democratic world?
9Xenophiles
9Big (virtual) Brother
September
26EU Kids Online – New Report
24Community Media
19Broadcasting Britishness – Conference report
11Google … again
11Optimists and Pessimists on the Net
August
31The rising importance of citizen journalism in Cuba?
31Wiki Translation
27Rationale for Notice Portal
26Global Voices – Internet Democracy
24Breaking the law
21The blogging personality
21Pro-Am Press Reporting
18Self-censorship
15Naomi Kline on China … or is it Cuba?
14Offcom Report 2008
10McLuhan and Privacy
6Cybernationalism – hate on the net
1Rising Voices
July
14The “networked information economy”- Benkler
1Collaborative Filtering
June
26Watching delicious bookmarks
25You are not alone – UK journalists lead the way with blogs
24Is Google making us stupid? – Atlantic Monthly
23Social media = social action
22Interview with Pedro Luis Ferrer
20Search Monitor: Toward a Measure of Transparency
20Protecting wildlife with twitter
20Blogger arrests hit record high
14Interview with Joani – cubanet 13 june
11Who’s blogging?
3Interview with Yoani Sanchez – May 2008
May
28Hacktivismo – tumbando el sitio Granma
28Fidel, power, allegiance and democracy
28YouTube, citizenship and democracy
28Journalism in the Cuban Revolution – UPEC
27The Internet in Cuba: Open Net report May 2007
27Fidel’s Blog
25Press Reference: History of Cuban media
25UN Covenant on civil and political rights
23Getting connected in Cuba
23Cuba – telecomms market overview 2007
23Cuban crave internet connection
23Cuba’s Long black spring
23Letters to the editor – Granma ‘opens up’?
22Cristina Venegas Cuba’s Digital Dilemma
22Cuca y el pollo
22New media opportunities in cuba – new voices
22UCI Cuba’s other revolution
21Citizen journalism resources
20The rise of Wikis
18Research ethics and social networking
April
29Social media report March 2008
29Damas de Blanco
28John Michael Roberts (2008): Public spaces of dissent
28Stephen Coleman (2005): Blogs and the new politics of listening
28Jan Smidt (2007) Blogging Practices: An Analytical Framework
25Marshall McLuhan
24Blogging in science
9Web Stats: summary
7Upload your drafts here
3Digital Diaries as vehicles of assessment in HE (2007)
2Diaries as introspective research tools (2004)
2Blogs as tools for reflective learning
1Yoani ‘censored’?
March
31Cuba ends restrictions on mobile phones
31Cuba’s Bloggers
28Viza Eguez
February
16Multi-lingual blogs
January
17Blogs and rss
17Development towards educational openness
17rss users read more news
8My use of RSS
4distributed computing technologies
3YouTube channel for ‘cultural identity’


2007
December
21Google knols v Wikipedia
10Facebook about to implode
8The internet – luogi comuni
November
19User-generated internet TV debates
16CMC Special Issue: social networks
1Explaining Mashups
October
30Interview with Manuel Castells
29Google and september 11
23Second Life in education
21Oxford internet institute webcast
21Reconfiguring friendships: social relationships and the internet
21It’s all interconnected
21Virtual friendship and the new narcissism
21your guide to social networking
14Henry Jenkins on YouTube
5Gender Differences in blogging
5The Benefits of Facebook ‘Friends’
September
23Michael Bauwens on P2P
13The BBC and participative news generation
11Revitalising newspapers … in education
11Teens and the internet
6Interview with Henry Jenkins
6History of YouTube
August
31the participatory panoptycon
31Digital Maoism
31European Survey on Children’s use of the Internet
31The Council of Europe – Internet Policy
31European Commission on YouTube
30Wikipedia’s Imminent Demise?
30TUC calls for social networking guidelines to save staff from sack
29Criticisms of facebook/social network sites
29Students protest on Facebook
29Specialist social networks
25Fred Stutzman’s Online social networks wiki
24virtual community – paper
24Feminising the net
24Should academics use Facebook?
24Spinning Wikipedia
22Statistics on social networking
22Blogging and the emerging media ecosystem
21The New Facebook
21Timeline History of Google
19Wikipedia and FBI Computers
16Dangers of giving away online privacy
16Facebook abandons college kids
15Collective intelligence
13How wikis are changing Communication
11Facebook – another walled garden
2Google Video – The Story of Google
2World Map of Social Networks
2Social Networking Statistics
1History of Blogging
1Wikipedia versus Brittanica
1Functions of Blogs and Wikis in Education
1Facebook article in CMC
July
31Google versus Everyone
31Who owns your facebook profile?
31Old Facebookers look elsewhere
30Google getting into unversities
30More scare stories from Facebook
30Facebook or MySpace – a question of class
10What we should teach students about Facebook
June
21Netgen – ‘my generation’
21Net Gen statistics