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Storify Your Stories…Or Maybe Don’t

Firebelly

Readers can reply to tweets you’ve embedded from directly within your story, which keeps the conversation going. Since the journalism degree in me is screaming “CITE YOUR SOURCES!&# While it seems simple enough, media on the left, your story on the right, there can be a bit of a learning curve to actually using Storify.

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Bloggers Are Not Journalists – But They Are Abducted, Imprisoned Tortured and Assassinated the Same #HowManyMore

Laurel Papworth

It’s probably worth investigating the number of bloggers killed in the “Line of Duty”… Today, George Brandis Attorney General for Australia stated that “ bloggers are not journalists ” in regard to the #metadata debate (Government accessing Big Data vs Privacy debate). Bloggers are not Journalists.

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

G & S: Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application; Computer hardware; Downloadable software for social networking and creating and interacting with online communities; Downloadable software for creating, managing and accessing groups within virtual communities; Software development tools; Downloadable software to enable development, (..)

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

PLEs are meant to simplify managing these artefacts, creating meaning through aggregation, linking and metadata tagging (eg comments, keywords). In universities, VLEs often act as secure gateways to digital indexes and research journals. A simple example is the integration of weblog with an embedded online calendar.

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Toward An Integrated Model of Information Seeking and Searching

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Why will our students not get up and walk a hundred meters to access a key journal article in the library? As Sandstrom noted, much information comes to the scholar through the social structures within which the scholar is embedded--service on editorial boards, graduate training, discussion with colleagues (Sandstrom, 18, p.

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