• A Sociologist Says Students Aren’t So Web-Wise After All
  brief Q&A with me in the Chronicle of Higher Education, may require subscription, see my Flickr stream for a copy
  (tags: article eszter hargittai education research skill users internet web savvy)
• Online College Faces Criticism for Renting Out Space on ‘.edu’ Domain
  (Chronicle of Higher Ed) – .edu subdomains for sale, ouch
  (tags: domains frbk article internet)
• Twistori
  love, hate, think, believe, feel, wish – on Twitter
  (tags: twitter tools social interesting)
• xkcd
  seriously geeky
  (tags: comic humor funny wifi)
• When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web
  (WaPo)
  (tags: facebook myspace teaching education article privacy)
• Summize
  searching Twitter messages
  (tags: twitter search-engines tools)
• Twitt(url)y
  popular links on Twitter
  (tags: twitter links aggregator)

• How fast are your reactions
  (tags: fun games)
• Lost Generation
  (video) similar to the Argentinian Political Advertisement “The Truth” from a while back
  (tags: video ads)
• Presdo
  tool to help add events easily to calendars (what I’d like to see is a better tool to coordinate people’s calendars)
  (tags: calendar tools)

• Divorce: Grounds for Dismissal
  Whoa – professor (of 20 yrs) quits his position at Wheaton College to avoid being fired over getting a divorce
  (tags: higher-education religion article)
• A Case Study of Gender Bias at the Postdoctoral Level in Physics, and its Resulting Impact on the Academic Career Advancement of Females
  (arXiv)
  (tags: research academia women physics work gender science)
• Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
  (tags: foundation grants)
• Looptopia ’08 Chicago’s All-Night Cultural Celebration, May 2, 2008
  (tags: chicago events)

• Use of Facebook for mobilizing citizens in Egypt
  (tags: facebook politics rights socialmovements)
• Blews
  “what the blogosphere tells you about news”
  (tags: tools research blogs blogosphere news)

• Professor Predicts Bleak Future for the Internet
  (Chronicle of Higher Education) – interview with my friend Jonathan Zittrain about his new book
  (tags: article interview internet research)

• Fighting Gossip With Graphics
  (IHE) “Own What You Think” campaign at Princeton in response to gossip sites like JuicyCampus
  (tags: article gossip dialogue students)
• Own What You Think
  petition
  (tags: petition gossip students princeton)

• Dimdim
  browser-based service (no downloads or plugins required) for meetings (sharing desktop, showing slides, talking & chatting with up to 20 people for free or more for pay)
  (tags: tools meeting free conferencing)

• Bush’s war (PBS Frontline)
  (tags: video politics war)
• Amherst College to Extend Need-Blind Admission Policy to International Students
  Congrats to Amherst, impressive decision
  (tags: education international finances college)

• Can Twitter be a quick way to customer service by Comcast?
  (see comments for others who’d gotten quick responses)
  (tags: blogpost twitter customerservice frbk)
• POQ special issue on Cell Phone Numbers and Telephone Surveying in the U.S.
  (tags: research surveys journal)
• Google, CTA teaming up to aid trip planning
  seems to be quite accurate, great service (missing the commuter rail Metra though, including that would be neat), it’s certainly much better than what the CTA used to offer
  (tags: chicago tranportation maps googlemaps tools travel)

• Rick Roll It
  evidently there are still some amusing domain names up for grabs out three – here’s a new URL shortening service
  (tags: humor tools urls)
• Student suspended after criticising Anglia Ruskin University course on YouTube
  (Telegraph) harsh
  (tags: article students college educatio video youtube)

I didn’t know Brian Donovan until I saw this video he posted on YouTube after which I feel like I know him a tiny bit. He’s an alum of the Northwestern Sociology Department and he’d been involved with the excellent Culture Workshop that I attend whenever I can. That’s how I heard about his tenure and this fun way in which he’s decided to let people know about it. Congrats, Brian!

• In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
  (NYTimes) bloggers: “Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop.”
  (tags: article blogs blogging jobs)

• Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Vietnam Wall) from Footnote.com
  search the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall (washington, D.C.) and get additional information about them
  (tags: history search search-engines photos memorial reference)
• Stitched electronics
  fun
  (tags: fun crafts electronics)

• A Camera for the Shot You Missed
  (NYTimes) – wow, impressive despite the limitations
  (tags: photography camera products-services review)
• UNdata
  searchable data base of UN data and statistics
  (tags: data stats reference demographics)
• Teaching and Tae Kwon Do
  (IHE) ideas for the classroom from Tae Kwon Do lessons.. hmm.. what lessons can I take from ballroom dancing into the classroom?
  (tags: teaching sports)
• Passover Haggadahs
  a publisher of alternative Haggadahs
  (tags: passover jewish holidays)
• [Hero] Youngest Baby Beatles Show in Diaper-Hey Jude
  so cute!
  (tags: video beatles)

• ‘Originality, Imitation and Plagiarism’
  (IHE) – an edited volume on “Teaching Writing in a Digital Age”
  (tags: books article teaching plagiarism education)

• China: Extinguish the Flames of Genocide in Darfur
  a photo rally to accompany the in-person one is San Francisco on April 9th (contribute your own)
  (tags: politics sudan protest)
• Man scammed by Craigslist ad
  (Seattle Times) – ouch!
  (tags: article scam craigslist)
• Dolores Labs
  “We take tasks that can be done on the web, by an average person with little training, and broken into small pieces, and then distribute them to thousands of anonymous workers.”
  (tags: crowdsourcing amazon mechanicalturk research)
• Amazon unveils ‘TextBuyIt’
  (USA Today) – purchasing from Amazon through text messaging
  (tags: sms amazon products-services)
• Southwest decor petroglyphs in carved stone and glassware mugs
  saw this featured on a TV show, the process of making them seemed neat
  (tags: arts crafts arthistory products-services art)
• Photography and The Law: Know Your Rights
  (tags: photography legal law)