New York Times has an article published today, entitled How Privacy Vanishes Online, discussing how advanced computer systems can pretty much pinpoint to who and where a query came from. Computer scientists who have more advanced algorithms and tools at their disposal are now able to tell who a user is even if that user has used, in what the user thinks, complete anonymity. Read More
Piggybacking off of my latest entry on social bookmarking, I have decided to add another bookmarking site into my repertoire. Diigo is such a powerful research and knowledge sharing too, especially for my students as a technology teacher. Perhaps the most powerful knowledge-sharing tool, apart fromTwitter. Do not get me wrong, I still love some of the other bookmarking tools out there, such as delicious, but Diigo’s network and groups are extremely intuitive and offer a myriad of features that other bookmarking sites do not. Read More
There are many social bookmarking sites out there like Delicious, Diigo, Evernote, and Socialmarker, but only one is truly designed to save websites, images, and videos that are inspirational. Zootool does an amazing job of saving images, websites, and videos in a simple and stylistic fashion. A user uses the “lasso” tool, which is installed to a user’s bookmarks toolbar, to capture their inspiration. Read More
Jeff Pulver, of pulver.com, makes some interesting points on fora.tv regarding social media, namely explaining how social media is really a change in communication. In many ways I agree with Pulver on how we are at the beginning of communication change and this evolution in communication has yet to be capitalized on and we are not entirely sure which direction it is headed. Thoughts? Link to the video below. Read More
