Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Editor and Publisher reports that Digg.com, a Web site that ranks and displays news items based on recommendations from its users, is expanding to include video and topics beyond technology. Currently, users are limited to posting and reading items on security, digital music, robots and other tech-related categories.

Beginning Monday, they will be able to post and have access to world, business and entertainment news, along with non-news video. Games and science also will break out of the general technology section.

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Although news of these two blogging events have appeared separately, it is quite useful to make note of them again, together, as an important signal of the power of the internet, specifically of bloggers and writing in the cyberworld. There was wonderful news last week about Glenn Greenwald, which also represented yet another sign of the growing, persuasive influence of writers on the internet. On the same day of the announcement that Andrew Sullivan's daily social/political commentaries on his blog, The Daily Dish, had reached over 2,000,000 readers during May, it also was reported that Greenwald's book, How Would a Patriot Act, had just made the New York Times' Best-Seller List. In addition, his book had climbed into the Top-100 of all books then being sold by Amazon.com. Greenwald is a writer who has reached a readership mainly through his blog, Unclaimed Territory.

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After my lackluster hands-on session two weeks ago in Holland about blogging (I really felt unprepared and not as helpful as I could have been), I was happy to find “Your Guide to Blogging” yesterday on the PBS Mediashift blog. Not only did it answer the questions I couldn’t during the session, but it’s a […]

At the end of March I posted about the continued, and in some cases increased, need for supervision of students using the Internet in the classroom. Many schools have been blocking blogs, wikis, and other social sites in an attempt to eliminate the need for supervision. Rather than embrace the new technologies they have “washed […]

I haven’t posted much this week, as I’ve been working intently on getting the new site design ready for the MACUL conference in two weeks. I’m not sure why I’m so nervous about it, but I just had a dream that I was late and unprepared for my presentation. My parents had to go and […]

You’re not experiencing technical difficulties, but it may appear that way throughout the week. If you’re a regular reader or a newcomer to the site, you’ll notice that at times this week there may be changes to the layout with the possibility of several errors and images misplaced. I’ll be tweaking and trying to create […]

From Wired News, Feb 01, 2005
By David Terdiman
If the photo-sharing site Flickr is any indication, the world of digital photographers is dominated by cat people.
Dog owners would probably object. But because of Flickr’s tagging system, which allows the photographers or other users to assign identifying tags to most photos on the service, we know that […]

From Wired News, July 14, 2005
By Adam L. Penenberg
When former Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael K. Powell watched television coverage of the London bombings last week, he noticed that most of the significant pictures didn’t originate from professional photographers employed by news agencies. They came from witnesses at the scene using cell phones and digital […]

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